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HOW I CREATED MY MINI OWL AND RACCOON PRINTS

Owl and Raccoon Prints on Beer Coasters

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How to Help Your Children be More Creative.

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RECENT EXPERIMENTS

Beer Coaster Collagraphs

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Filling The Well

Filling The Well

 

I have been thinking about my printmaking practice quite a lot the past few days. The reason for this is that over the last few years I have done very few prints because I have been focusing on painting despite that fact that I really love printmaking.

But then I took a major leap of faith and created the Collagraph Master Course. I did this because I had so many people coming to my website trying to find information on how to go about making collagraphs, how to get certa…

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Art, Meditation and Healing or Mindful Mindlessness

 

So where do I go in my head when I am creating?

 

Art, Meditation and Healing, or Mindful Mindlessness.

 

So where do I go in my head when I am creating? Quite honestly I have no idea and I find it very hard to remember any of my thoughts from when I am full on working. All I know is that when I am “in the zone’ I am completely focussed and oblivious to nearly everything else.

This, to me, is a form of meditation and…

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Where Do You Go My Lovely?

“Where do you go to my lovely when you're alone in your bed. Tell me the thoughts that surround, you I want to look inside your head.”

The words to this song came back to me when I was thinking about art making. So often we re plagued by thoughts going on in our head telling us that we are not enough, that we will never do good work, everyone is more talented/creative etc. I’m sure you have had these feelings. I know I have.

But there will always be people who are better and cleverer more beau…

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