Village lane advent windows
This year, for the first time, our lane is doing Advent windows to raise money for extras for our local school. The way it works is that each of us – or as many as possible – in the lane ‘unveils’ a decorated window right up to December 24th and they all stay on till … Continue reading Village lane advent windows
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
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 made, or maybe a thank you to whoever’s looking at it. A QR gives the … 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 Bill West which was published on November 20th, 2021. They were made to accompany the… 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 there on the menu that needs rationalising. No, no idea! 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% (Practice of Painting), and 67% (Understanding Painting Media). With any luck and a strong following … 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 lead by your sponsor/patron/gatekeeper. It’s always seemed to me that, and this video puts it … Continue reading “The Art Market is a Scam”
Revisiting THAT portrait: nose, eyes, mouth and teeth
Originally posted on ConboyHill Studio Practice:
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 how to paint. My books arrived, one on Kindle… Continue reading Revisiting THAT portrait: nose, eyes, mouth and teeth
Two pieces of news
One is that I’ve been working on paintings to accompany poems due to be published in a Christmas collection, the other is that I was commissioned to make a painting for the cover of a short story collection by a rather good author. The downside, for now, is that I can’t reveal any of them … Continue reading Two pieces of news
Bought some stencils …
… went the full ophthalmologist. The stencils are aluminium, 2″ and 4″ size. I’d been doing some work with text and realised that, back in the day, I would have used Letraset rather than my own handwriting, which was only decent in primary school and now is barely legible. The first is Payne’s grey on … Continue reading Bought some stencils …
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