Oils, acrylics, and water-colours
Oils, acrylics, and water-colours Oils, acrylics, and water-colours, and are kinds of artists paint. There are lots of ways to make...
Watching paint dry.
Watching paint dry. Last Saturday I gave a demonstration of my acrylic painting technique in a huge new artists supply shop in London....
Five things about London.
Five things about London. London is a big, important, interesting, popular, exciting, place. I was born and brought up here as well....
Canvas, hardboard, paper or plank.
A lot of non-artists don’t have much idea about why artists use such a variety of surfaces for their paintings. So here is a very basic...
How to thrive as an artist.
Starve, strive, survive, then thrive. That is the basic formula for an artist to go from the starving artist phase to the thriving artists p
How to get into galleries.
A lot of artists want to exhibit in commercial art galleries. They see it as recognition of their quality as an artist.
My technique
I have been invited by a major trade magazine to write a short 700 word piece about my technique for painting pictures. Luckily I...
ARTIST’S ACRYLIC PAINT
In the late 50’s we saw these strange words describing some of the latest art from the USA, ‘acrylic on masonite’. What was masonite and...
How to publish prints and why.
How to publish prints and why? That is the big question for artists nowadays. It is big because there have been important developments in...
The artists role in the art industry.
The artist’s role in the art industry. The art industry is huge with an annual global turnover in zillions of dollars. The top auction...
