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WHEN DOES A PAINTING BEGIN?

Art inspiration sometimes dries up. It's a common dilemma that plagues every creative person. To encounter a creative block is to face yet more anguish and self-analysis on top of the self-doubt, scepticism and uncertainty that seem to accompany the state of being an artist! Look no more blood left!When these states strike I just keep going, make m...

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TWO MORE A3 POSTER DESIGNS

I have created 2 new designs for the A3 poster for the Scottish Mental Health Art Festival exhibition to be shown in Summerhall, Edinburgh later this year.These two new draft versions were created with the Risograph printing process at Out of the Blueprint, Edinburgh in mind. The red one is the final version that will be used after some work on the...

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WHEN IS IT FINISHED?

Leonardo da Vinci declared, "Art is never finished, only abandoned."I'm not sure about that but I do know that I struggle and agonize over some pieces of work and return to them sometimes several years after they were once declared finished. Most of the time my sense of completion is a purely intuitive one. I just instinctively know that it is fini...

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