colin8863

My first love was drawing. No doubt about it. It was my entertainment and my way of impressing the family as a child by how closely I could copy cartoon images from my comics in coloured pencils, and later, my way of creating design work for my jewellery making both at college and afterwards. I realised that if I could draw it, I could make it. Drawing was the underlying structure for watercolours, acrylic and oil paintings and most definitely the basis of all my illustration work. Self...

I've been working full time (again) as an 'artist' since March 2024. I think it was just as difficult to make a living as an artist 20 years ago way back in 2004 when I decided that there was enough demand for my work (and that it was good enough) to move over to going full time then. But back then I was full of optimism and although sales weren't wonderful they did provide a basic living. When I sold work to a dealer who took the work to the affordable art fairs, he inspired me to think...

So in my last blog post I mentioned how difficult it had been to get sales through a gallery. With this insight into the issues with...