Who’s Afraid of AI?

Let’s talk about the elephant in the room….AI. The are current discussions or if you like to call them controversies about artists and the uses of AI. Sam Leach a Melbourne based artist, this year submitted a landscape based on a GAN…..a Generated Adversarial Network to the Wynne Prize, which is a section of the […]

How to Tell Warm from Cool

Do you often look at your work and think, something is wrong/missing? This is a demonstration of colour/pigment commonly used in art. A challenge is that most of the pigments used in art making are variable depending on their “ingredients”. Some are chemical, some are natural, some are synthetic, and they are either pigments or […]

Trace Monotypes

A trace mono type is a form of printmaking that is very simple to do. It can be done with very little  any specialized equipment. All you need is some water miscible oil paint, a roller (brayer), a slick surface to roll out the oil paint and some paper. In class this week I distributed […]

The Magic of Printmaking

Printmaking is the closest thing to magic that I know…… I read that somewhere in the last few days, but before I could find it, I had closed the tab. Any way who ever she or he was, how true.I had set myself a challenge of producing a print in the theme of “Portrait”, for […]

Welcome to Artyfacts

Welcome to the art world, if you are one of my students you will find all the information that we may have discussed in class. As well as some extra tips and lots of material and techniques to help you in your creative journey. If you are like me…. a printmaking magician, there will be […]