227 ART CHOCOLATE and the NEW YEAR
ARTIST DREAMER As another year turns the corner I cannot help but be very thankful for the last one and wishing the New Year will also be kind to us all. The most important thing for me is of course the health and wellbeing of my family and friends but if I could I certainly […]
220 BODY PAINT and The Festival of Arts
FESTIVAL OF ARTS & BODY PAINTING Today I thought I would share with you some of the pictures taken at Danish art exhibition in Copenhagen, Denmark. The naive paintings show is at the Galerie Knud Grothe and on until the 4th May. This acrylic on board painting below is called Viva La Nudie Rudie which […]
217 THE ART of Golf
GOLF PAINTING The Art of Golf is a strange title really for someone like me to write about as I must confess that at golf I am hopeless, lol but I do have a lot of fun anyway. Perhaps even more fun than actually playing the game was painting golfers in this naive artwork in acrylic […]
216 The ART of The Rolling Stones
NAIVE ART EXHIBITION This week was going to be the one where we finally got to see the Rolling Stones live! Ever since I remember I have loved the Stones, the bad boys of “sex, drugs and rocking roll”. Well that is before they finally grew up a couple of years ago and decided to […]
213 ADELAIDE THE CITY OF ART FESTIVALS
ART FESTIVALS For an artist Adelaide in South Australia is a wonderful place to live, it is a buzzing metropolis for the arts with various festivals and exhibitions and excitement. We just manage to get over Christmas and then it starts again with the Adelaide Fringe which is the largest annual arts festival in the […]
210 THE ART OF AL FRESCO DINING
CERAMIC AND MOSAIC SCULPTURE This wall based mosaic and ceramic sculpture hung at Adelaide Airport for many years before the new renovations it was one of 3 commissions that hung in the only cafe open at the airport. Of course it was lots of fun to make and hopefully cheered people up after a […]
206 The Art of CAROLS BY CANDLELIGHT
CERAMIC & MOSAIC Carols by Candlelight is such a lovely Australian Christmas tradition. Last week my art blog and painting featured the acrylic painting of Swedish Lucia which was used for Project mapping on the Swedish Embassy in Poland see this story 205 Projection Mapping & Art in Animation This week however the artwork is […]
183 CAKE ART and artistic expression
ARTISTIC EXPRESSION One thing I am absolutely sure about and that is that everybody are artistic in their own way and the key to that sentence is “in their own way”. Too much emphasis is put I think on what art is and what has merit and what doesn’t. Cooking, baking and cake decorating for […]
172. The ART of the Hair SCULPTURES
INSPIRED BY ARTIST SANDRO BOTTICELLI This painting was commissioned by my US art gallery a few years ago; the Director wanted me to paint a naive version of The Birth of Venus which was originally painted by Sandro Botticelli in 1486. My brief was just to paint the head but with various items hanging in […]
169. PAINTINGS AND OPPOSITES ATTRACT
PAINTINGS AND GICLEE PRINTS This painting Balloon Wedding is one of my favorite artworks and is available as a Giclee print these days. Often bought as a wedding present which brings me very neatly to the wedding we attended on the weekend and also to the topic of opposites attract. I love painting wedding scenes […]