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ARTY FARTY BOL**CKS
Arty Farty B’s refers to some of the terminology and descriptive language often experienced in the art world. AFB’s…
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ACRYLIC versus WATER COLOUR or OIL PAINT
ACRYLIC versus WATER COLOUR or OIL PAINT I wrote a blog piece about oils, acrylics and watercolour paints about...
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RELIGION IN ART
‘Religious art or sacred art is artistic imagery using religious inspiration and motifs and is often intended to uplift the mind to the...
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RED, GREEN, BLUE CONES and COLOUR BLINDNESS
Pablo Picasso: “Painting is a blind mans profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels.”
It is…
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Nature or Nurture the biological determinism debate.
The nature perspective would argue that art is based on everlasting universal scientific facts …. If the nurture argument…
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Plein air painting is painting outdoors
The different light, method, and subject applicable to plein air painting had a profound effect on the history of…
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FAT OVER LEAN PAINTING RULE
Fat over lean is a phrase that comes from traditional artist’s studios. It refers to the sequence that should apply…
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MORE ABOUT ACRYLOGRAPHS
Acrylographs are a combination of three elements and this is what my latest work is all about. The results…
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Fellow Sklylark artist Jane Skinner
Jane Skinner is a most interesting, highly unusual, and very amusing artist, and fellow member of the Skylark collective…
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GROUNDS for ART STUFF
Grounds for art stuff is a term used about the surface artists choose to paint on.
So ‘grounds for…