The Blog – Writing about Art and Creative living
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Creating Art Gifts: A Budgie Portrait
It’s been a while since I posted any news on the art front. I am making art, but it’s all gifts or commissions at the moment, or wee tutorials to improve techniques. Life…
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I Quit Facebook and Instagram, Here’s Why.
The whys: To get more work done. To stop comparing myself to others. The Algorithm’s To not be run by the algorithms. To summarise paragraphs of ranting: The algorithms are designed to make…
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Shift: Urban Art Takeover – Review
From February to April this year our local Museum had a “street art” take over. They are heading into a massive refurbishment, it’s been largely the same since I remember going as a…
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I’ve been swallowed by the internet
Deciding to ‘make a go of it’ when it came to making a selling art has started to bring up some struggles for me. I thought I might share them.. because what else…
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On starting up a new art practice
In the last 15 years, the only art I did really consisted of copying the odd painting into my sketchbook or a large easy canvas to decorate our walls. Mainly as some art…
Simone Quentin de Manson 