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Impress your friends with ‘Art Bollox’

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It’s not like Botox but has the same sort of effect in bringing on an impressionless face. It is , of course, the way some people talk about art, and that art can be anything. Here are some useful tips and words that should be used. Drop them into the conversation, and people will soon give you that look that suggests they don’t know what you’re talking about, but- and this is key- they will counter with their own bollox. I recently saw what is always described as a ‘piece’, and this is a key word. Art is never described … Continue reading Impress your friends with ‘Art Bollox’

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“Boots on Carruthers, we’re off on a new adventure. Step forward my good man”

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It started with the photo taken near Tideswell in Derbyshire. Lovely spot. We went there for a week’s holiday some time ago, it was clear and seemed really bright. I took a number of photos and from that week and have done quite a number of drawings from them. There’s a folder on my desktop called experiments and really they all should be titled thus. All the imagemakng is an experiment, I’ve tried a number over the last six or seven years and more on these landscapes. First came the line drawings. I’m at home with black and white line … Continue reading “Boots on Carruthers, we’re off on a new adventure. Step forward my good man”

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The Dalai Lama Monthly Plein Air Drawing & Painting Group.

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There are three of us. We meet, we draw and some of us paint. Kit includes a small stool each, mine is the kneeling weeding mat thing I use at home, another uses a sophisticated wing nut heavy folding easel. Pencils, and some pastels are in my kit, as well as a flask of coffee to prolong drawing time. The other two carry water colours. I’ve not done a lot of this open air drawing stuff in the past but have found this rewarding in several ways. Sitting and looking as well as on site drawing is a great way … Continue reading The Dalai Lama Monthly Plein Air Drawing & Painting Group.

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Back to school

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I was last at art school in the 60s and if my memory serves me right, the art bit was not on the top of my priority list. I was then a recently released internee from a boarding school I was not terribly aware of the world. In my first year at this art school I was allowed to have a go at everything, with a base layer of life drawing. The first time I’d ever seen a naked woman for life drawing, and this one seemed to be having a day off from being a traffic warden. I did … Continue reading Back to school