Artastique 2019
Recently we have organised an art event called Artastique.The idea was: for 10 days in March 2019, businesses will team up with artists to display
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The sign is on
It has been a while since I posted an update about our move to Australia. Well, last year we found our perfect dream home, with
Lethbridge gallery
I became a finalist at the small scale art award of the Lethbridge gallery in Brisbane. I was not able to be present at the announcement of the prizes, but it’s still fun if the gallery owner picks just MY paintings to feature in advance!
Some of my art treasures
Today in the op-shop I paid a few dollars for a precious little artwork. Even the tiny sign (B. Burns ’82) was meticulously neatly done. For me it’s clear this is or was a true talented person.
Our first days in Taipei, apart from the art fair
Although being present at the art fair was somewhat exhausting, there was also time to spend before and after the opening hours. For example in this video you can see the cute apartment where we have slept, where we bought our breakfast and a glimpse in a Chinese jazz club.
Report of my presence at the Art Revolution in Taipei
In this video I show you some clips of my presence at the A.R.T. I attended in May 2015.
The reuse of painkiller strips
7 May 2013 If the first pencilling is my least favourite part, I find mixing the colours the most fun part. I never use colours directly from
Missed daylight
Because I’m a night owl I usually miss a big slice of daylight. That is not handy for a painter, so I’m always alert on interesting lamps.
Today I bought a dentist lamp at an auction.
Panorama
… I moved the furniture to the side of the room and found a way to hang the parts of a ‘sixteentych’.
The diameter is 3 meter. Or the length of all the canvasses together is 10 meter.
Art Revolution Taipei
Joining the Art Revolution in Taipei was a real milestone in my career! The decision to be at the fair in real person was even better. It was all one great learning course!
Buying art from fellow artists
When we left the exhibition hall we bumped onto an artist who was busy making sculptures with a chainsaw. One sculpture took him a few days to create and they are about six feet tall.
Italia meets New Zealand
Today I received his part in my letterbox and I was over the moon. Beside a beautiful bright tempera work, he also added a book brimmed full of other small paintings of weird animals in marvellous colors.
Croatian article
Sometimes people write such beautiful things about me. I’m fallen silent by these nice words.
The cloud picker
There was quite a controversy about one of the entrants because his work was a portrait of a murderer.
How long does it take to finish 1 painting?
After finishing and signing, oil paint needs to dry thoroughly for at least 6 months, or better a year. Only then it’s ready to get the final varnish. So, if you see a painting made in the year 2011, it is not earlier sellable than 2012.
Notes for every separate painting
I always have difficulties to re-connect with the painting after it have been in rest for weeks. Every time it seems I need hours or days before I know how to work further on it, like an interrupted conversation. Most of the times my first attempts are quite pointless too.
Easel
One of the best things I recently bought is this new easel. Well…. it’s not really an easel and it’s not new either.
In the last couple of weeks my old easel slowly but surely started falling apart.
Demotivating
WHY did we drive to Auckland then??? But the customs officer was gone and has assigned us with a shy young assistant. Arguing with the wrong person doesn’t make sense, isn’t it?