Practice makes perfect. Having grown up not speaking English I didn’t know this saying. But it resonated when I started to continuously hear it. I felt it meant that someone, anyone, who had put in the time could be good at any task. Although I didn’t like to practice much as a child, be it …
My mother took me on my first urban sketching meeting in Luxembourg about a year and a half ago. Now I attend the meetings whenever I have the time or whenever I am in the country. Last month the Urban Sketchers went to Diekirch to draw at the Conservatoire National des Véhicules Historiques (National Museum …
For this week’s blog I thought I would share one of my most recent projects with you. I made a set of four different silkscreen print designs. You can easily find many different tutorials and videos on how to do silk-screen prints, and process itself isn’t that difficult. Preparing Prints I used a photo-emulsion paste …
Unsurprisingly, the correct (graphical) perspective is very important in art. Yet how one uses perspective depends on what you want people to see. It can be an especially useful technique for challenging a viewer’s expectations. I was still at school when I was introduced to the different ways of constructing perspective. I found the various …
Today’s title is a controversial statement and not without ambiguity. It has come up in conversations with my family and I began to understand something: not everything is art. But it also is. Here is why: A little history: I want to delve a little into the history of this phrase first. It has a …
Experience and time spent on a craft is no doubt the key to this question. The rule is that it will take about 10 years to master a skill. Whilst experience is certainly crucial, there are a few aspects that differentiate the layperson from the professional. Next time you go to a museum, see if …
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A friend once asked me the title question when compared to her textile creations. She sews, knits and crochets, and she was annoyed that artists can make a much better return than craft-artists. Hand-crafted items are often sold for less than they are worth in raw production time alone, never mind adding the cost of …
Time passed quickly for the students of the part-time art degree at the EKA (European Academy of Art Trier). After only three short years the new graduates launched their exhibition today, the 9th of September. The director of the school, Dr. Gabriele Lohrberg, and two of the tutors who led the program (Silke Brösskamp and …