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How Far Should We Go?

A really interesting blog post questioning how far we should censor art on the ground of the artist’s (alleged or proven) behaviour. via The great and the bad

So this evening, Swansea was buzzing with crowds of arty types milling between no less than 5 galleries opening exhibitions on the same night. I dropped into the effervescent Galerie Simpson to start with, then up to the magnificent Glynn Vivian Art Gallery for the opening of “Portrait Of The Artist – Käthe Kollwitz”. I’veContinue reading “A Grand Night Out”

Woman up.

A lovely blog from Doodlemum

bobbles return

Superb knitting from Scotland https://wp.me/p4Ouz-97E

Stones At Sunset

Walking along beaches around Albufeira, Husb and I came across a cove where people had constructed dozens of balanced rock cairns. Of course, I had to have a scribble….. The sun was going down – the day had been too warm to walk out comfortably so we waited until early evening when it was cooler.Continue reading “Stones At Sunset”

Here’s a longer life drawing I did this week at Swansea Print Workshop using the free Markers app on my Samsung Galaxy Note 8 tablet.

Cats are back!

Originally posted on Art by Nancy Farmer:
There have been complaints from some quarters that I have not drawn enough cats lately. However I have converted what used to be my blog for mostly cat drawings (catoftheday.wordpress.com) into a site for entirely swimming drawings (waterdrawn.com). So the cats must find a new home. Here. “Cat…

Proud Pads

I spent a lovely morning helping fellow Swansea artist and designer, Laura Niehorster, in her new enterprise, Proud Pads. Laura needed a hand cutting out the material to make a new batch of her eco-friendly re-usable sanitary pads. I think it’s a brilliant idea and they look really fun and funky too. You can catchContinue reading “Proud Pads”

Hydrangea

https://wp.me/pFqe5-NQ Reblogged from David Reid, a delightful little work

PHEW!

I’ve been out and about today, mostly at the 10th birthday celebrations of local Elysium Gallery and I didn’t get to do any art for my blog, so I thought I’d post this one from 4 years ago. It’s a bit technical; I had been making some colour-separation monotypes for an exhibition …… Source:Continue reading “PHEW!”