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When sharing my art with family and friends I have noticed their responses are distictly different depending on what kind of work it is. With landscape people tend to wax lyrical about the beauty of the scene, the great sky or clouds, the depth I achieved. When it's an abstract the comments are usually more general. "I like the colours" or the painting is "interesting" without going into any detail. So this made me wonder if as a general rule people prefer representational a

Why do a Blog? A few years ago a friend of mine started a blog online and to be honest I thought it was kind of egotistical - all about him. However over time I have come to appreciate that there might be other more useful reasons for writing one. So this is going to be an ongoing record of my journey, thoughts, ideas, inspiration and discoveries to do with creativity and art. Should you choose to read it, it will be more about the above than about me or my daily life. If my