As many as there are skirting boards in a room! I was ill-equipped, it turned out, to hang the kinds of paintings I’d taken. I’ll have several yards of transparent thread and a roadie who’s good on ladders next time. … Continue reading How many paintings can a painting propper prop ..?
Sometimes you just have to give paint and water the day off to play together. Left to get on with it, these have made some fine little labels and business cards in earth and sky colours. All very abstract although … Continue reading Strayfish Arts on the trail
I was delighted to see some down-to-earth advice about this from Artquest, and some wonderful examples from The Art League: Good statements: keep it short grab the reader’s interest with the first sentence introduce the author’s personality and enthusiasm give a hint about the why of the artwork use the first person (I, me, mine — this is not a strict rule, but it does seem to help the author write a more straightforward, readable statement) What they don’t do: summarize the resume found elsewhere on the website give a physical description of artwork photographed elsewhere on the website sound generic use “art speak” Artquest, … Continue reading Artist statement – (part 5, project 4, ex 4)
Project 3 is about generating titles for pieces of work and, oh my goodness, am I familiar with this one! I’ve had to generate them for conference papers, internal reports, workshops, and latterly short stories, a couple of books, and a litter of pre OCA and now concurrent within and outside of OCA paintings and prints. It’s not easy. There is at least, with many of them anyway, an assumed target audience and a set of expectations depending on who this is. There is also the subtext of linguistic bamboozlement designed to impress/intrigue/enhance the product. Titles are important; they’re for … Continue reading {TITLE} {what title} {NOTITLE} – Part 5, project 3
This is the second commission received this week, and as per my previous post, it will have to remain private until it’s either deemed unsuitable by the publisher or made public via the traditional cover reveal. 17th JULY UPDATE: COVER … Continue reading Tokyo Ghost
I did some more unwrapping today. This piece was part of the batch I unwrapped a couple of days ago but which had somehow wangled a trip out in the van and made a bid for freedom! It’s the very … Continue reading Steyning Arts Trail – what else is coming to Sakala!
According to Wikipedia, Ekphrasis is the written description of a work of art produced as a rhetorical exercise, while the Poetry Foundation describes it as, ‘a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art. Through the … Continue reading Response to the poem Single Shot by Tom Sheehan
Assessment runs in cycles and this is the Summer 2021 cohort. The bulk of the work shown is from first year (Level 1/HE4) students and gives an idea of the quality of work at even this stage. Add to this that everyone is working alone without a physical cohort, and often few facilities. Small spaces in a box room, the gap under the stairs, and in one case I know of, the back of a café, packing everything up each night to take home and bring back the next day. Most work around jobs, families, cats, and many other entities … Continue reading Summer Assessment – student work from Painting and Drawing
I’ve been doing some unwrapping today and i absolutely can’t wait to get these on a wall! With many, many thanks to Frames at the Golding Barn industrial estate, these are ready to meet their public. This piece, impossible to … Continue reading Steyning Arts Trail – what’s coming to Sakala
Drawing Skills 1: 56% Practice of Painting: 61% Understanding Painting Media: 67% On the face of it, this shows linear improvement in that the overall marks are going up. But looking at the detail, all of this improvement comes from … Continue reading Reviewing Level 1 (HE4) feedback
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