Although I have cut down on my posts from one per day to one every 4 or 5 days in 2010 starting in August, I managed 256 posts. I hope to improve on this year and continue to build up Bookstains, which is proving popular. This year Echostains celebrated 16 artists birthdays (another area I intend toContinue reading “The Ghosts of 2010”
Category Archives: CRITIQUE CORNER
Critique Corner -‘Germany before the war’
Here’s an abstract piece I did a while ago. I thought it would be a good one to critique. When I was young I loved anything which was ‘free’ like most children. I would go into wallpaper shops and beg old wallpaper books to cover my school books. I loved the patterns colours and texturesContinue reading “Critique Corner -‘Germany before the war’”
Shaking the dead by the Finger
styx In this painting , I used ink, some acrylic and filler. I tend to use a lot of this as an impasto, it mixes well with acrylic and gives a nice surface for painting on using inks etc. Originally this painting was called St Michan’s, after the Church in Dublin, where I spent my birthday shakingContinue reading “Shaking the dead by the Finger”
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