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Thanks! It's good to paint with other people because painter's life is quite focused and that way lots of solitude.

We had an Usk meeting on Saturday and I painted with oils on paper. There were about 30 of us. We had Jamaican music right next to us. 🎶...

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

You are right. And it makes me sad to think how many people judges a book by its cover or a picture by the frame (or gallery). What it...

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...