Valuable content, Emma’s essays about her take on life.
The collection at the Ethnological Museum, Montjuic, Barcelona On entering the basement of the museum, it’s like a store room with glass covered shelves upon high shelves of every sort of artefact collected from around the world, including some extremely finely carved bone, wood, rose quartz and tons of ceramics. These little painted wooden panels [...]
This is a comprehensive list of movies about artists Most websites will give you the top 10 films but here you can see 78! Click the links to read the reviews and learn about the lives of each artist. A list of feature films about artists' lives This list is in alphabetical order by the [...]
This is a comprehensive list of feature films about art, artists and or art scenes Click the links to read the reviews and learn about the lives of artists. These films are in date order. Bauhaus 100 (2019) - watch on Youtube Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) About a female painter Mi obra [...]
I have selected 59 documentaries, with links, so you can look them up. It's the kind of list to introduce you to new artists and to inspire you to find further material about them. You may notice that I have thrown a load of female artists in amongst those genius’ that are usually the same [...]
This a how-to guide for adding edited videos to Instagram, using your video editing software, before using your smartphone or DropBox to upload. I make my films in Final Cut Pro X. How to make a video with a square aspect ratio To begin with, you will need to make a new project with a [...]
Content Think about what you are passionate about, what catches your eye, what is in front of you. What do you wake up thinking about and what do you feel urged to paint? You can use reference materials (it’s always best to create your own references, as that will make your artwork original and will [...]
Find out about making and selling your own professional printed greeting cards or you can order your own designs from me. Greeting cards with printed art on Greeting cards or gift cards are a great way of getting your art and designs out into the world. People can frame them and send them to people [...]
What is a hashtag? A hashtag as a way to categorise and find posts about a particular subject. Hashtags are followed by large groups of people, who are interested in or associated with a subject. Start by searching for hashtags in subjects that interest you, to see how they work. The main point of using [...]
An introduction to slow looking Most people, who don't visit galleries very often, tend to look at a painting, sculpture or photo for just a few seconds. Then they look at the label to give them reassurance because unless it's called Untitled no. 3, the title will help them work out what it's about. They [...]
From the initial buzz of working together and getting inspired by what each other is doing, to the issues of how the sales money is divided and the overall goals. Whose is the idea and who owns the copyright? Who is the author? In some creative collaborations it’s whoever presses the button on the camera [...]
The Sacred Feminine Last week I spent two days at the best art lectures I have ever been to, with an artist teacher, the lost YBA (Young British Artist). He’s the one who threw his entire graduate show in a skip the night before the opening and went off-radar for twenty-five years. I'd like to [...]
Reaching Your Audience You never really know who your audience is or when they are going to buy from you, so you'd better start by being comfortable with your arty personality and communicate clearly what you do with everyone you meet. I find that selling art is a long persistent process of growing my audience [...]
