I’ve done it, I’m back into oil painting! With the fine weather of the Easter weekend, a walk around the beautiful Halfway Forest near Llandovery refilled my creative well, and instead of attempting a pastel…
Continue reading →I talk about the two-year struggle to create work I’m happy with using pastels.
Continue reading →I’ve spent years taking snaps of things I find visually interesting in addition to taking proper landscape photos. This has given me a wealth of reference material for sketching. However, this comes with an interesting…
Continue reading →I’ve completed several presentable pieces from my daily art practice so far, but I noticed rigidity creeping in when I felt anxiety rising at the thought of completing a piece. I realised I’d unintentionally adopted…
Continue reading →I’ve been looking at my wall of shame (the numerous, unfinished, large oil paintings I have hanging on my studio wall), and it’s been my intention to finish them this year. But maybe that intention…
Continue reading →Walking helps. I’ve a vague recollection that this was mentioned by Julia Cameron in one of her Artist’s Way books. I started reading the first book last year. I didn’t finish it. Maybe it’s time…
Continue reading →“I am distressed, almost discouraged, and fatigued to the point of feeling slightly ill. What I am doing is no good, and in spite of your confidence I am very much afraid that my efforts…
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