Category Archives: Photograph

A New Monotype

Posted on November 8, 2014 by notes to the milkman

I’ve recently started a printmaking course with the Open College of the Arts (OCA). The first part is about making monotypes and this is a painterly one I did this afternoon. It’s based on a photograph I took from the … Continue reading →

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Paintings and Photographs – What Should Be The Relationship?

Posted on September 14, 2013 by notes to the milkman

Today there was a Huffpost tweet about “a mind blowing art revelation”. This related to work about a Korean realist painter called Kang Kang Hoon, whose paintings look just like photographs. My immediate reaction was simply ‘why?’ What was the … Continue reading →

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Looking At The World From A Different Viewpoint

Posted on June 29, 2013 by notes to the milkman

I came across a remarkable set of photographs yesterday via Twitter. What was photographed was certainly not remarkable – very ordinary rooms – but what made them so was the unusual bird’s eye perspective. According to the Guardian article, photographer Menno Aden … Continue reading →

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Bolton University Fine Arts Degree Show 2013 Part 1

Posted on May 18, 2013 by notes to the milkman

Regular readers will know what I think of artists’ statements written in International Art English aka Bovine Doo Doo. I was concerned then when I was at the Bolton University Fine Arts Degree Show on Thursday evening because I actually … Continue reading →

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Vermeer’s Daughter And Other Huff Posts

Posted on May 17, 2013 by notes to the milkman

Kestrelart is very concerned about my reading the Mail. (If you don’t follow Kestrelart, he does some gorgeous drawings of birds – I think there’s a clue in the name, somewhere! – such as these.) I did reassure him that I … Continue reading →

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Not Just A Girl!

Posted on May 14, 2013 by notes to the milkman

I’ve just had a link on my Facebook account to a delightful photographic website, Jaime C Moore Photography. She had a wonderful idea about photographs to commemorate her daughter’s fifth birthday. Disney princess? No, real women! Unfortunately, I can’t give … Continue reading →

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Three items picked up via Twitter

Posted on February 1, 2013 by notes to the milkman

As I stated in my ‘Hello’ introduction, one of the purposes of this blog is to share ‘ephemeral’ items about art. Recently I’ve started using Twitter to help me keep up to date with art news. This evening as I … Continue reading →

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Is it just me?

Posted on December 23, 2012 by notes to the milkman

I visited the local art circle’s exhibition at Bolton Library last week. There were two paintings which struck me. (Well, three if you include the one I voted for in the Visitors’ Prize poll, and which I then went out … Continue reading →

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Richard Dorment’s Year of Art

Posted on December 16, 2012 by notes to the milkman

Today’s Review in the Daily Telegraph was dedicated to a review of the year in the arts. Richard Dorment looked at some of the various exhibitions which have been on this year, several of which I have visited myself and … Continue reading →

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Can’t Make Up My Mind … (from We Are OCA)

Posted on December 14, 2012 by notes to the milkman

[I’ve just read this beautiful article on the OCA website. I decided it needed sharing more widely and found it easier to copy it into my blog rather than trying to ‘share’ it using the profusion of buttons. The original … Continue reading →

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