I started a project inspired by the early cabinets of curiosities / wonder rooms using shells that I had collected and drawing by touch, blind contour drawings, etc... techniques...
This is a step by step guide to help you analyse visual artwork. Analysing art is a rewarding activity and a tried and tested way to help you develop as a visual artist...
This is my painting 'Submerge' being exhibited at the 23rd Annual Open Art Exhibition 2022 - 2023 at Beverley Art Gallery.
Read this pros and cons list for submitting to open exhibitions to help you to decide if they are the right option for you and what to consider if you are thinking of submitting to one.
Starting with a solid black underpainting, see this landscape painting of rural Cambridgeshire fields take shape.
Learn what blind contour drawing is, how it can help you improve your own artwork and follow a step by step guide to start your own blind contour drawing.
This blog reflects on exhibiting at the Ferens Art Gallery Open Exhibition 2002 and 2022 and considers whether I would submit work to an open exhibition again.
This blog shows my finished illustrations in mixed media (Oils and pencil) that came from a rough contour sketch of a praying manta character in a sketchbook that I drew years ago
One day, while I was painting something completely different, I decided to create my own cabinet of curiosities using printed collage pieces of rare, unusual and intriguing objects I had collected on Pinterest
This blog shows the a Haida Thunderbird lino print over collage and acrylic.
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