by Patrick | Jul 27, 2015 | drawing, Lifestyle, painting
Recently I had dinner with a designer becoming exhausted with the stress of running a large (and very successful) practice. Disillusioned with client relations they were coming to terms with the designer as the elite of the servant classes, rather than being a member...
by Patrick | Jul 18, 2015 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, oil, painting
In the hotel world Mr. Hilton’s strictures that hotels profitability is all about ‘location, location, location’ is probably one of the most quoted. In the world of artists less attention is paid to where the artist is working, unless it obviously impacts their work....
by Patrick | Jul 15, 2015 | drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, Remembrance
Blimey, I didn’t expect one photograph to generate this kind of response, but as one person said “it is the silly season”. In my last blog I talked about the impact of the large sensor in the Canon 5Ds. To begin with I went with my thirst for colour and the...
by Patrick | Jul 6, 2015 | art, Environment, Lifestyle
In 2000 I bought my first digital camera, a Sony Mavica. It took images that were 1600 x 1200 pixels and took poor quality video as well as stills. The images were good enough for web publishing in the days when we all had telephone link-ups with their characteristic...
by Patrick | May 25, 2015 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, pastels
We use grids daily. Sometimes we don’t recognise them as grids, such as in a carpark. Sometimes we label them with other names such as ‘cells’ when in a spreadsheet for example, or ‘apartments’ in a block of flats. Pixels in digital imagery work as a grid – keep...
by Patrick | May 19, 2015 | art, Environment, Lifestyle
The wind came off the sea, fast and hard. Hitting the 300 foot high cliff face it shot upwards joining forces with higher level wind to bend and blast across the path. Birds didn’t take off, they just opened their wings and the wind lifted them into the sky, hurling...
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