Color is one of the most powerful tools in an artist’s tool kit, but it can also be complex and confusing. Teaser question: can you tell me what colour scheme my Cup and Saucer painting was painted in? (answer at the bottom of post) the fundamentals of colours, how they are created and how they relate to one another; basic…
Texture is everywhere! Your hair, an animal’s fur, the dimples in a golf ball, the spikes on a cactus or the stem of a rose, the rough surface of a rock or brick wall, wrinkles in a face or crumpled paper…. On Wednesday 21 November 2018 I will be teaching a workshop, using mostly hard and soft artists’ pastels, exploring…
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to use the same medium that Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Edouard Manet and one of my favourites, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec used? Pastels are easy to use, available in wide ranges of colours and one of the most direct ways of applying pigment to a paper or canvas. Hosted by Attic Studios,…
It’s been so long since my last post, I am almost shy to start again. I feel like a stranger, lurking around on my own site! A few things happened since I was here last (that was last July, in case you were wondering). So this is a story all about how my life got flipped-turned upside down, and I’d…
So you want to be an artist, eh? 😉 Because we don’t live in a black-and-white world, let’s start with getting an understanding of how colours work together and how a tool most artists still use all the time, the colour wheel, came into existence. In 1666 Sir Isaac Newton was the first to develop the colour wheel. He saw…
As a member of the Photography Club of Beaufort (PCoB), last week I, along with a good group of other photographers from our club (Brad the Man included!), participated in the annual Tri-Club Photography Competition. Clubs competing were the Camera Club of Hilton Head, Photography Club of Sun City and my ‘home club’, Photography Club of Beaufort. Competing is always a bit exciting, as you never…