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This is a quick, gestural, ink and watercolour wash sketch, in an 130 gsm, A6 size (approximately 14 cms x 10 cms) sketchbook.

This is third quarry I went to paint. I was tempted to try to paint all these spring greens and peculiar color water. Water is such...

At that fair you really COULD judge a book by its cover.

Indeed! When I went to the yearly book fair this year i was surprised. Several booths had old, battered book collections leather or...

You're making work for me! I'm retired, Brian. I can just visualize this: Old man in a rough brown hooded garment slowly scribbling with...

Jeez! You mean I've been wasting my time with trying to sell my paintings and should have gone into the one-off illustrated manuscript...

As to "value" of mass produced art, calligraphy, etc., consider that we have long adopted the Hallmark card, which almost completely...

"Welcome to the Monkey House", by Kurt Vonnegut.

Don't misunderstand me here. I'm not at all against people buying what they like, beautiful or kitschy or in between. And I certainly...

I may be an exception here. But while I cannot afford reckoned "fine art", I jump on the first chance to get "minor art" that I can...

The masses appreciate "affordable" mass art. That's my take on it. Fine art is appreciated too little in our society, and that's been...

Did I ever post this portrait? It's oil on canvas, 14x20 in. Painted in Seville while a Portuguese model called Pablo is posing. One...

Oh wow! I love the mark making in the trees. Really dynamic.

I usually avoid this stuff outright, but this time I must have had my guard down and gave my email for a demo. Then I did bother to read...

I was once curious about them, specifically because they seemed to offer more “hand holding” to get you through the whole...