Hear now the curious dream I had last night
Shellac is made from amber flakes secreted from tiny lac insect in the Far East. It’s used for a wide range of applications including the old gramaphone records
It's extensively used in theater and film, interior design, an art form nad ahost of commercial applcations
A paint is best chosen for its characteristics and not for the hue. How a colour responds and its opacity, reaction to mediums, solvents and the ground is integral to the work.
Making ones own paint gives it properties different to pre made paints as the grinding wont be the same as grinding oneself. This means the pigmetn particles will be distributed differently and often inconsistanly. This can against or for.
“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times . . . The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile”
(Csikszentmihalyi, 1990).
One of the things learned over the years is every artistic work should be better than the previous.
An observation Sir Graham Sydney observed.
A fantastic driving force.
Cecil Collins was one of visionary artists following Blake and Palmer. All his life he followed a lonely path outside the modern movement in art. Yet the significance of his vision is increasingly recognized, especially among young people. And a number of his pictures hang in the Tate Gallery. In 1973, Cecil Collins was commissioned to paint an altarpiece for the Chapel of St Clement in Chichester Cathedral.</p>