“Who is the artist?” revisited

A while back, I wrote a post discussing where boundaries are between original artwork and getting someone else to do it for you. I was concerned about who does the craftsmanship in creating the piece of art and how this affects being able to say who the artist is. The piece in question was Damien [...]

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“Who is the artist” follow-up

Following up from my post last week in which I raised the question whether the artist needs to actually do the work to create his work of art in order to call it his own, I posted the question in this thread on WetCanvas. I got several answers there which helped me understand the question [...]

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Who’s the artist?

I saw this article this morning in the Artist’s Magazine blog about Damien Hirst’s infamous diamond studded skull. Personally, I find most of Damien Hirst’s work of dubious merit and this piece in particular to be rather hideous. However there are two very interesting articles linked here. The first is an article describing [...]

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Use Artist Grade Paints

I use a lot of titanium white paint. Loads of it. I tend to mix a lot of it into mixtures and I also apply pure white highlights.
Most of my paints are Talens Rembrandt which come in convenient 40ml tubes. However I buy my titanium white in big 150ml or even 175ml tubes (I also have [...]

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Photography catching up with painting

I saw this interesting article about algorithms for touching up photographs based on images available in a large collection written up in a BBC article. The idea is to analyze the photo, find a matching bit from another one and then paste them together seemlessly.
Looks like some cool technology. I can’t wait to get this [...]

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