Even though inspiration is all around us, it’s so easy to get bogged down in the sea of amazing art and start feeling discouraged. I experienced this recently as
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Life of an Artist – Blog 12 The Lost Beauty in Old Architecture Thus I have been going out as much as the weather has allowed to capture that brief magic. Unfortunately I only caught the tail end, so the magic is very nearly over but here are some impressions. (I’ve been using a new
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The more art you do, the more old artwork there will be… What to do with all this old artwork? This is the question I face time and time again, especially as I don’t have a house of my own and tend to travel around a lot. Most of the old artwork I accumulate isn’t
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So you’re a happy artist, painting and selling your lovely art, hurray! Then it hits you like a dozen cats catapulted straight into your face: TAX TIME!
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Fig 1: “Lucky” Watercolour on Board – Natalie J Cheetham …Even in dark times In these dark and troublesome times we are going through currently, it can be very easy to lose hope and fall in to a pit of darkness. I went there for a while, especially with other hurdles that life spat at
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I’ve started this great new routine after breakfast, where I go out with my handy little watercolour set, ink pen and a pencil. I then walk around my garden to find a lovely spot to sit and sketch.
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Hi there, in this weeks blog I thought I’d share a bit of the story behind the pieces I chose to exhibit this week as part of a group show at the Blueskin Gallery in Waitati, NZ.
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Hello,
Welcome to my blog! This week I would like to share with you what it’s like learning to see the world through the eyes of an artist.
I think the most important lesson I got from studying Illustration and Animation at uni many years ago was one of the first modules we started with.
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In this weeks blog I would like to delve into the topic of The Surreal.
I’ve been thinking a lot about what ties my art together, as I seem to have lots of different themes, styles and mediums.
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This week I would like to take the time to talk about Mental Health.
Last Sunday was #WorldMentalHealthDay.
It’s interesting how we somehow automatically think of mentally sick people when we hear mental health. Although the opposite is true as it says in the name: Mental Health… I guess it just means the health of your mental headspace.
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