If you write a book and it is published and does well you get royalties, same with a film, play, music etc. But as a painter or sculptor once you have sold your work of art for £500; that’s it. When the buyer sells it on for £50,000 a couple of years later the painter/ […]
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Relief
I wait with bated breath for the next instalment of Amanda Sisk’s post on sculptural relief and drawing. As Chris has also picked up this subject in a very positive way I felt somewhat bound to add my bit. It is necessary sometimes to resort to relief for reasons of space in particular. I do […]
Women in Art (paintings)
I found this rather wonderful u tube. Apart from being clever, it is beautiful.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs
Letters from America
I get two letters each week from Robert Glenn a painter of distinction in the United States. They are of course not always relevant to a busy sculptor but I find they often have some excellent words of wisdom and interest. They are a calming influence and give one hope that one day all the […]
Tegners Two
215. Man Running after his Ideal 1920, bronze. I have now added some titles and comments. I wonder if it is useful to see them first without and decide on the merits of each work as they are put to you “blind” ? These pictures come from Tegners gallery in Denmark with appropriate permission. 168. […]
My Dormitory Ghosts
I wasn’t really interested in ghost stories but I was in demand as a teller of them. This constantly got me into trouble for talking after lights out in a classic English prep school in the late 50s early 60s. The Vicar of Seaford was chosen for his power of story telling too. He preached […]
Studios
I have started a new blog. I am inviting Sculptors and Painters living or dead to send me pictures of their studios to upload. Taft was very helpful, here is a sample above:
Leighton’s mirror image
As I prepared Chris’s tribute I thought to check on a note I had read recently in a book about a sketch Leighton had done supposedly for his Painting entitled “The Music Lesson”. Something wasn’t quite right. On closer inspection it appears that the sketch is a mirrored version to the painting. I have never […]
Venus of Berekhat Ram
Could this be the earliest work of Art? The experts think Africa may have it so;Throat of Olduvai in Tanzania. http://www.paleolithicartmagazine.org/pagina34.html http://www.asa3.org/archive/evolution/199610/0084.html and the others http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurines
Norwich 2005
At the 400th anniversary of Sir Thomas Browne’s birth, I took these pictures which included my Niece looking at a memorial to a very ancient aunt in St. Thomas Mancroft, and a long shot of my Grandfather’s painting “Wist ye not”. (I will post a better image of it up on www.artituk.com in due course.) […]
