I love portraiture, and I can list many reasons why people should have their portraits painted. It is unfortunate that there is a stigma of vanity attached to commissioning a portrait of oneself, or even of one’s family or friends. Sure, it involves time and money (and other more intangible things) to create a portrait. […]
I dreamt of a sculpture…
The last episode of my dreams today was the one with a sculpture… I had someone telling me, that he sow a very interesting sculpture, “go, and see!” Explained where it was, somewhere in a public indoors area. I went. It wasn’t a museum or gallery, so people around were not paying attention specifically to […]
Being trapted in one’s body…
In my 20-es I didn’t remind myself much about it, because I was busy with things, I suppose. Nowadays I think about that experience rather regurlarly, trying to figure, if it was a kind of spiritual experience like some of the people get and talk about. What prompted me to those memories again is this: […]
About mezzotint…
I was sent a question through my ebay store Printocrats about the nature of mezzotint. I thought I’d post the whole dialogue here, because it explains a little, how a mezzotint is an original print and not a reproduction method: Q: – hi is this created from a picture ?
Saint Ronan’s school in Hawkhurst – new work.
I’ve visited Saint Ronan’s schoolthis morning to meet the headmaster William Trelawny-Vernon and his wife Emma for a sketching session. I am starting a portrait, featuring the couple. My thoughts are to make a conversation piece, to try and convey the family oriented spirit of the school. Today I made some sketches and took lots of photographs… […]
Giclee is NOT an original art print!
I came across this description of giclee as Original Art Print yet again and it made me really cross, because this is a pile of nonsense! Giclee isn’t, never was and never will be an original art, the same way as if Picasso made a doodle on the paper and faxed the image to you, […]
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Giclee is NOT an original fine art print!!!
I came across this description of giclee as Original Art Print yet again and it made me really cross, because this is a pile of nonsense! Giclee isn’t, never was and never will be an original art, the same way as if Picasso made a doodle on the paper and faxed the image to you, […]
Eureka!
An hour ago I was sitting on my potty and staring at the tiny spot on the bathroom rug. It is plain cotton, off-white, at the moment moderately clean rug from IKEA. As it often happens, the patters of the surface, specks and all, formed into something definable. (For instance, when I lived in Tashkent, on the toilet door frame the shadows […]
A Tale about Difference
18 February 2009 In my dream, a succession of events brought me to realisation, that I am in an altered state of mind. I was at the vet’s. With a flower?.. With memories about a dog?.. The vet was someone I knew, but couldn’t place. The place was somewhere I knew, but it […]
New mezzotints
I’ve spent the last two weeks at the printmaking studio. Made a few attempts at monoprinting… Too raw. I am not confident enough with this technique yet. But it’ll change, given time. At Brenda’s studio… However, the time wasn’t wasted at all. I am rather pleased with my 6 new mezzotints. I asked Martin Maywood to send me random little pieces of the […]
