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Painting with Acrylic on Canvas
In the final part of this series before I move onto etchings, I’m doing a piece on painting with acrylic paint onto a stretched frame canvas. The principles apply just as well for oil painting, [more…]
In the final part of this series before I move onto etchings, I’m doing a piece on painting with acrylic paint onto a stretched frame canvas. The principles apply just as well for oil painting, [more…]
To give everyone a rest from the military stuff, I thought I’d share one of my ways of retreating from the stresses of life, politics, the media and people. Watercolour painting is a good starting [more…]
In part two of this series I’d like to introduce the joys and messiness of drawing with soft pastels. The pastels I use are chalk based, although some are oil-based and therefore more like crayons. [more…]
Two Rascals I looked down on a thunderstorm. The distant lights of late evening Manhattan were being complimented. Clouds beneath me luminesced with staccato lightning flashes above a rain-lashed Long Island. 1988 had ended badly. [more…]
It’s been a while since my last article on items of art we’ve purchased for our new home and I thought some of you Puffins would like to see some of the latest pieces, having [more…]
“Come and get me, copper!” East End saying Dark doings in murky waters open Part 6. Specifically- The attempted theft of dozens of priceless artworks from under my very nose! I regret to advise Mrs [more…]
“A little injustice in the heart can be drowned by wine; but a great injustice in the world can be drowned only by the sword” Epigrams of Chang Ch’ao This part of the mould-breaking series [more…]
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money” Samuel Johnson In the comments on Part 2, I was truly saddened to see Tachy, one of the foremost intellects on this site, ally with [more…]
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.” William Hazlitt I hope [more…]
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