Looking Forward to 2017 and Skylarks Singing
Skylarks singing, dewdrops on cobwebs, and flowers. January the first 2017. I am getting dozens of emails, Facebook posts, Twitter, and...
HOW TO THRIVE AS AN ARTIST
Starve, strive, survive, then thrive. That is the basic formula for an artist to go from the starving artist phase to the thriving artist...
ARTISTIC LICENCE
ARTISTIC LICENCE. A skill or a creative act? Artistic License (also known as Poetic License or Dramatic License). Examples would be in a...
HOGS, HAKES and FILBERTS
HOGS, HAKES and FILBERTS are kinds of brushes that artists use. Hogs are made using hog bristle, hakes are softer and flatter, while in...
BAYSWATER ROAD Herding Cats in the Sex, Drugs and Rock’n’roll Years
By request here is something about life as a young struggling artist in the swinging sixties. The sixties are known for sex, drugs, and...
ABSTRACT ART IS LIKE FROZEN MUSIC
The idea of likening abstract art to frozen music came about because some otherwise very worthy people just don't get the idea of...
50 YEARS AS A PRO.
2016 marks my first 50 years as a pro. A full-time professional artist that is, or FTPA. I don’t really expect to get another fifty years...
SPOT THE NEXT WINNER?
Spotting the next winner? The New ActivCanvas App. How to pick the next big thing? I reckon that a contender must be the new free...
ARTPUBLISH.COM … WHY?
Over twenty years ago, during the last ice age and when mammoths roamed the earth, I created the www.crabfish.com website. I used the...
'THAT DAMN CAT'
In the past year or so some things have been good, and other things have been less good. Mostly good I am glad to say. But one of the...
