Ann Buckner has published a series of tutorials on Basic Drawing which are available in PDF format from her site. You need to have Adobe Acrobat reader installed to read them. These tutorials were written for the Wet Canvas Drawing & Sketching Forum which is an active artist community online. …
With the Take a stitch Tuesday Challenge starting in two days I thought this was a handy article for all. Eight Steps for Choosing the Right Needle is well written article by Catherine Bracken on the topic of using the right needle to get the best effects with your stitches. …
When street performers wish each other luck they wish each other a ‘good hat’. At the moment I need a little support, so I have decided to put out a virtual hat and ask for donations towards supporting this site. As to my recent problems with spam I want to …
Well what a return to blogging after a break! Over night once again comment spammers attacked the site, hitting things so hard that the server was going to take a tumble. What happens is that they overload the system so much that things start breaking so my hosting company pulled …
Because Christmas in Australia falls in summer our family has its traditional Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve. We originally hail from the west where it is not unusual to have temperatures near or above the century. Its no fun turning out a full dinner with all the trimmings in that …
If you like taking a sneak peek into the mind of an artist don’t miss browsing the visual journals of John Copeland who also has a blog These are not sentimental ‘art journals’ but observed life expressed in drawing
Hi all some of you might have noticed that the site went down again earlier on today. Spammers are hitting the site so hard that they risk bringing the server down so I have to change my comments policy. People now have to register in order to comment. Please do …
