Could my trade -swapping something useful to me (money!) for something useful to you (colour!)- be the oldest one human beings have ever exercised? Based on a National Geographic article: The first artists, how creativity made us human, that is totally the case… One day in 2000, Christopher Henshilwood and his team dug out in…
Category: new pages
to you my reader…
whoever you might be… you are one of the first lovely persons who have subscribed to my blog/site and… never heard from me again! Contrary to appearances I have been working very hard: first taking over a charming artist residency in Provence, the Ateliers Fourwinds, while still running our beloved art store/centre in Byron Bay,…
Gouache… a cheap paint only for kids?
We’ve all played with these little discs of colour when we were young (and probably not kept very good memories of our experience)… that paint was gouache. However there is more to gouache than we might remember… please read my Gouache page which I’ve just finished!
My “oil sticks” page is done!
Check it out! Simply click here and you’ll get to my OIL STICKS page and -hopefully- to everything you might want to know about oils sticks… including what is an oil stick, what is the difference with an oil pastel, how you can use oil sticks, how to take care of them, what you can…
in bed with mona lisa 