See below posts by the artist on the creative process! Approximately one post will be made every week.
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The value of talking about your art
When I explained to someone how I was being tough on myself for not creating more art, I found that a key to getting back was talking about my previous ones to other people live. I got to share with her some of my paintings and got excited about what I made in the past.…
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Learning from the masters
I tried to do a few John Singer Sargent style watercolours to see if I would learn anything new. The first was the “Beaudoins”. What I found challenging was – well, I had not used enough of the canvas (considering the original was larger than mine) so getting the details was hard. But I did…
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Tips for your First Commission
After being approached a number of times on whether I would do commissions, on this last time, I decided to take the dive and it turned out to be a great experience. There were a few elements that I realized and would recommend going forward to other artists: All in all, I would consider doing…
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Commissioned art and the saleability of art
In the past, I’ve turned down commissioned work requests. It struck me as that I wanted to make art with my own messaging, and commissions would get in the way of that. But lately, I’ve started working on a commissioned piece. Given that this subject matter was interesting and it was a friend of mine,…
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Negative Space Painting
I love making art with negative space. It strikes me as really cool to create with the parts around what you make. It has an inherent and fundamental feel that what is important is what is the stuff that’s not there. The added bonus is it helps turn off the left-side brain thinking where you…
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Subversive art and acceptance
I visited the Tate Modern for the first time. When I saw Fountain, the famous urinal that was delivered as art, there was a tour guide in the room explaining why all the onlookers surrounded a urinal with a signature on it. Back in 1917, this kind of art would be baseless and off putting…