by Patrick | Jul 10, 2021 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, Design, drawing, Op Art, painting, photography
As a first-year degree student I found myself in a small group being challenged by Michael Kidner and his partner in crime Adrian Heath to create a ‘light modular’ in which pairs of colours of the same tonality would, when photographed in black and white, show as a...
by Patrick | Jul 4, 2021 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, photography
I don’t enjoy drawing in public. I mean by that working away with a cluster of people, ebbing and flowing, constantly changing, peering over my shoulder. I used to work in the studio when teaching but then always prepared to talk to my students about what I was doing,...
by Patrick | Jun 3, 2021 | art, art as language, photography, Uncategorized
Click here to see a GIF of BRotS Images that are available from the gallery. All are on A1 sized 300gsm paper primed with 3 coats of gesso ground. Acrylic paint, some with oil pastel additions, mostly glazed with a matt glaze. Images are all sized at 27 inches...
by Patrick | May 23, 2021 | art, Lifestyle, Uncategorized
I only have one soul, but maybe 9 lives. As a child of two I was rushed to the RAF casualty station in Aden when another child split my lip open throwing a clockwork train at me. At six years old RAF surgeons operated to clear a twisted bowel maybe (who knows)...
by Patrick | May 16, 2021 | art, art as language, education, Op Art, painting, photography
Stretching and priming is the basic beginning of every canvas. You can buy canvases from professional makers, but I prefer to choose the type of canvas I use and stretch it myself, to a size I want to work on. This continues my showing the process that I, as an...
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