This is a wonderfully funny parody of a totally inconsequential blog. Made by a hilarious cartoonist, Dave Walker. Posts includes such gems as: Going for a walk April 15th, 2013 I decided to go for a walk. I set off in my chosen direction. Eventually I returned to my starting point. Straightening the doormatContinue reading “Dullest blog ever – Dave Walker”
Monthly Archives: March 2018
Painting as thinking: Sarah Bush
“I have an idea, then the work helps me finish the thought” – Sarah Bush Sarah Bush works quietly in her studio, which is also a quiet palette of light neutrals – her colourful clothes jump out as she moves in her environment. Many of her paintings are also quiet: almost monochrome. There is depthContinue reading “Painting as thinking: Sarah Bush”
How to make a photography exhibition
Paul Duke documented the decline of the fishing industry in the Moray Firth, with a series of life-size photos. He tells the story of how he took those and made them into a whole exhibition.
Good music lasts…. fashion not so much
The Four Tops and “Reach Out” is a classic song. But those big jackets and too short trousers? To 21st century eyes, slightly odd and hilarious, although obviously sharp styling at the time, 50 years ago.
“That’s what a de Koonig painting sounds like: liquid, fluid, runny”
MOMA shows you how to paint in another painter’s style, step by step
sketching landscape with Nina Weiss
A demonstration of drawing a landscape with coloured pencils, from a photograph. Tutor is Nina Weiss.
Portable Sketching Kit
putting together a basic sketching kit
start small – Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter works across a wide variety of textures and formats: painting over photographs, painting from photographs but blurring, mirrors, versions of a major Titian painting…… where do you even begin? On what basis do you choose your format? I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven’t done anythingContinue reading “start small – Gerhard Richter”
Drawing cartoon characters in VR – Glen Keane
animator Glen Keane experiments with drawing directly in VR environment
“I can’t draw a straight line”
Many people say “I can’t draw a straight line” – this is a great starting point, because there are very few in nature (except the horizon). Have you tried the freedom of collage? Watch Rebecca Maloney collage a landscape, from a few lightly pencilled guide marks, using coloured paper from magazines. And yes, she makes itContinue reading ““I can’t draw a straight line””
