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My Artistic Journey (part 4)

  • Posted 21st October 2024, 10:33 pm
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My Artistic Journey
(Part 4)

(continued from part 3)

The year is 2012 and I have decided to make my artistic interest, a business. About a year before I had found a helpful website forum called, "Wetcanvas". There I enjoyed being amongst other artists who were sharing both their art and artistic processes. At this time I was working in oil paint and spending a lot of online time
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My Artistic Journey (part 3)

  • Posted 22nd September 2024, 10:45 pm
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My Artistic Journey
(Part 3)

(continued from part 2)

If you read the last episode, you will remember the 2007/2008 recession had just hit… and lucky for me at that time, I had a good job, wait, what am I saying? I had a great job!

I'm sure I've never worked for a better boss or been paid as well as in my old job. But as I found out… nothing on earth lasts forever. My job was working…

My Artistic Journey (part 2)

  • Posted 23rd August 2024, 10:33 am
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My Artistic Journey
(Part 2)

(continued from part 1)

Last time I introduced you to this series of blog posts on why I am (and have been) pursuing this artistic path. I hope to give you this artists narrative… for what its worth.

I have mentioned my search to discover something about famous artists and their art. I wanted to know not only, who they were (both artists and individuals),
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My Artistic Journey (part 1)

  • Posted 13th August 2024, 11:16 pm
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My Artistic Journey
(Part 1)

When I was first introduced to the icons of art history's biggest stars, it soon began clear, that in comparison to everyday people they were different. Not just a little bit odd but quite different! Somehow the stories told about them, made them to seem much bigger than life… certainly bigger than my life and bigger than almost anybody else I had ever…