Padlets
These seem mostly to be used for collaboration but they’re also handy as a repository. I’ve collected most of my art-related videos on this one. Continue reading Padlets
Author: Suzanne Conboy-Hill
Artivive
Artivive is a way of linking an image to a video without the need for QR codes on the work you’re scanning. Take a painting, for instance; you might want to add an animation or some clips of it being … Continue reading Artivive
A Christmas Canzonette
Originally posted on Dr Suzanne Conboy-Hill:
Front cover of my copy of the journal. Art work, Passage by Irene Cunningham. I am delighted to have art work included in this collection of poetry edited by Marie Fitzpatrick, Oonah Joslin, and… Continue reading A Christmas Canzonette
More blog migrations
After Drawing Skills1 came home to roost a day or so ago, Practice of Painting and Understanding Painting Media have also done a flit and been rehomed here. So now there’s a flock of replicated pages and headings perched up … Continue reading More blog migrations
Blog supernova!
If this blog suddenly looks larger, bigger, rounder, and more populated with stuff, it’s because I have imported my three Level 1 (HE4) OCA blogs now that they’re safely in the bag at a progressive 56% (Drawing Skills 1), 61% … Continue reading Blog supernova!
“The Art Market is a Scam”
We knew that though, didn’t we? Get yourself ‘adopted’ by a gallery or a collector and your work will sky rocket in price. You might have to be dead though, which would at least mean you weren’t kept on a … Continue reading “The Art Market is a Scam”
Revisiting an earlier portrait
This was based on an unattributed photo I found on the internet when searching for faces to paint for Practice of Painting last year. I liked the strength in this woman’s face, but I had to construct a story of … Continue reading Revisiting an earlier portrait
Revisiting THAT portrait: nose, eyes, mouth and teeth
Anyone who’s watched Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year and thinks painting a portrait is a doddle, here’s a glimpse into what it takes to not even come close to that level of skill! Continue reading Revisiting THAT portrait: nose, eyes, mouth and teeth
Revisiting THAT portrait: nose, eyes, mouth and teeth
Could I have chosen a more difficult image? Probably not; wrinkled, crumpled faces give room for manoeuvre but flawless beauty is unforgiving. But I don’t much like being beaten, and anyway, what am I here for? I’m here to learn … Continue reading Revisiting THAT portrait: nose, eyes, mouth and teeth
Extra curricular noses
Call me weird but I’m determined not to graduate this course without making a decent painting that includes a nose. So today, having almost finished up with Studio Practice, I took the plunge and, to really give myself a get-out clause, I chose a photo of an exquisite black woman after coming up blank looking for Nish Kumar, and decided to use oils for the first time ever. Someone gave me some when I began this course, smelly solvent and all, so armed with a couple of YouTube videos, and an acute awareness of the prolonged drying time of this … Continue reading Extra curricular noses
Strayfish Arts 