Champagne: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… These were made following an invitation to design the dishes and serving wares for a new international fusion restaurant. The restaurant never saw the light of day, but lots of my designs did! Along with these … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #104: Champagne
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity: Part 3 – Sculpture – Faces
Part 3 - Sculpture - Faces After years of making things with self-drying clay and/or found objects, I felt ready to take classes in ceramics. I enrolled at the Visual Arts Centre in a turning class under the tutelage of the amazing Audrey Killoran. I really disliked the wheel. I might have given up entirely … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity: Part 3 – Sculpture – Faces
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #103: The Kite Flyers
The Kite Flyers: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… While wandering in a dream battle between Dali & Miro, a vast series of images flooded my mind and I simply drew and drew, then I lat the paint flow... This is a young … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #103: The Kite Flyers
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #102: The Mexican
The Mexican: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… Following a discovery of Oaxacan art, I delved into researching Day of the Dead imagery and history... this rich holiday is full of beauty and emotion... it would be easy to get lost in the … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #102: The Mexican
My Favourite Art Supplies: The Ubiquitous Tool – A Sharpie
Sharpie FINE POINT Marker Permanent: The Review: The most basic tool for every artist and doodler! The black of a standard Sharpie has it’s very own beauty. The more one uses it, the more one learns how to play with the sharp point and to vary the line… if you are comfortable mangling the tip … Continue reading My Favourite Art Supplies: The Ubiquitous Tool – A Sharpie
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #101: The Watcher
The Watcher: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and write the next chapter… My mind was filled with surrealist painters and commercial illustrators, as well as getting my library ready for a new baby, it became filled with children’s books too. I started writing some stories and thinking … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #101: The Watcher
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #99: The Last Hollow Men
The Last Hollow Men: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and write the next chapter… Back in the 80s, following the release of Pink Floyd the Wall, I started seeing these images repeating in literature, film, and painting... oddly I found these nihilistic sentiments repeated in earlier works … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #99: The Last Hollow Men
The Catchphrase On My Sleeve
The precipice has walls Decorated to an abundance With murals of unimaginable history Which chance has yet to write. To dream of dreams yet underrate When reality is morose and ignored Postpones everything but my imagination And cures the mundane routines. So like a heart on my sleeve The catchphrase of my life, Broken and … Continue reading The Catchphrase On My Sleeve
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #98: The Hollow Men: Family
The Hollow Men: Family: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and write the next chapter… This is a revisiting of my nihilistic hollow men... an exploration and attempts to portray them with positive emotions. Inspired by the silly and ridiculous attempts to take a full family picture with … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #98: The Hollow Men: Family
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #97: Naive #12
Naive #12: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and write the next chapter… I was studying folk art and batiks and found great pleasure from drawing the components for these, before painting them... there are many other drawings and a few paintings... all quickly sold and spread around … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #97: Naive #12
The New Renaissance Mindset 