It’s only two days until we start our new term at Splashout Art Studios and rather than spending my holidays catching up with all the painting I planned to do, I’ve been building websites! 

Not that this has been a wasted effort, of course.  One has been for my art class buddy, Michelle but we have also been working on a new concept site called Artrium.  With the closure of the Splashout Gallery we’ve decided we need to do more about going online and Michelle, Sandy and I agreed that we were better off promoting our art together than alone.  And if we think that, there are bound to be others.  So the Artrium concept is to be a gateway site to local artists – hopefully many of them from Splashout – where we can link existing websites and offer to build new ones for a bargain basement price.  If we then all cross promote we can drive online traffic and all benefit!

That’s the idea anyway, so we’ve been beavering away creating the platform and will look forward to launching it in the next few weeks.  Stay tuned…

With all this activity, I realised that I’d failed to post about the last project from last term!  The brief was a portrait with a patterned background.  Creating our own wallpaper if you will.  Beautiful faces were created everywhere, but I decided to go a bit left field and use the pop art techniques learned at a workshop a few years ago.  I’m very happy with the result and think I’ll create a new mini-collection of “Big Hair” using various complimentary colours and bold styling.  What do you think?

Next term the only hint we have of what we’ll be doing is that the first project will be ‘lemon and silver’ and the second will be ‘shades of white’.  Interesting!