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I sometimes look at things through ‘rose coloured glasses’ and if it makes the world seem a better place then I will keep looking through that glass.   I tend to find people who paint are generally lovely, kind, thoughtful and considerate people who are supportive and not in competition with each other but are […]

Art also includes the written word and my 4th private blog is a poem written by Judy Edwards from the Blue Room Art Group.   My Art of Poetry When I write I create a picture. Like tubes of paint with their lids off; The colours tumble, cascading onto the page. Mixing them thoughtfully on […]

A renown national artist (whose name I cannot currently remember!!!!!) wrote in the Artist and Illustrators magazine ‘if I can’t paint something I go and look at how another painter has painted it and copy what they did and how they did it’   This makes good sense to me (but it won’t to everyone), […]

Tracing – Some people feel tracing an image before colouring it in is cheating, but is it? Some of our greatest artists have allegedly traced some of their master pieces before adding the paint, artists like Caravaggio, Vermeer, Rembrandt and Di Vinci are all said to have ‘traced’ images by using a ‘camera obscura’ The […]