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Unlocking Creativity… Not Quite

It’s been several months since I last updated this blog. Many things have come and gone, and some have stayed the same, continuing to linger like an annoying thorn stuck in a place you just can’t reach, with no one around to help you pull it out. During my time away from this blog, one of the things I ventured into was returning to a ‘public art’ project. The opportunity seemed to arise out of…

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#CreativeChangeMakers - A call for Artists to Unite for Global Change under one banner, one hashtag

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It ain't the end of the world just a new era - my thoughts on AI

First of all let me thank everyone who had like my previous blogs and subscribed. It’s always nice to know people are reading and are interested. SO thank you most sincerely. Now for today. “AI is going to take over the world.” Have you heard that one before? Probably, as it’s now become common to hear how AI is going to take over jobs, destroy the art world, decide for us, even kill us. I…

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Highs and low of feeling mediocre

Firstly, let me start by saying thank you to everyone who is liking the blog posts and subscribing to them. It’s nice to know that you’re being read. As I have mentioned before, I’m not an expert on selling artwork, nor will I be someone to follow on how to become better in your art business. These blogs, apart from primarily being about my work, also focus on sharing my experiences to assist…

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POD living

Hiya I’m back again, its becoming routine now. Today my focus will be on POD, print on demand and my views on it from my experiences with it, and I am sure some people will not agree, but this is my view I do not expect anyone to feel the same as we all have different experiences. And those experiences will be determined by how good you have been at doing what you do. In my case, and I will…

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Opportunities come from what you are doing and not from what you are not doing.

As you will find out this blog won’t always be about my work and what I do, as in the artwork, it is also about the experiences and I hope a way of passing on what little I have learnt for others to also learn about. After all every little helps in our journey, a life-long journey which is what art is for many of us, we hope. Anyway… Don’t you sometimes feel as if you’re doing two jobs but just…

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Nearly three years on...

“It’s been nearly three years since I last wrote in this blog, and since then, many things have happened. The one big thing that has happened is a realization that to break into the art world and get recognized, you need to market yourself, and that is one thing which I find difficult to do. Even though my background will show that I have advertising and marketing experience, that I have created…

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Comfort zone after giving up

Comfort zone after giving up

Strange how just a few weeks ago I had given up on trying to find a comfort zone with painting. Nothing worked, I struggled with colour and with the paint and brushes. Then suddenly I gave up, and like the previous blog shows I gave up, it was just not for me, once it had seemed it was, but it just wasn’t happening. The moment I dropped my expectations, the moment I stopped fighting it it…

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Giving up …

It’s been a long time since I last added to this blog. But here goes…. Let me take you down a road which seemed futile whilst I was on it, but which I suppose might just be another of those many learning curves we all go through. You see in my life, like probably many other artists like me, I have done and do things we don’t quite like or would have thought we would be doing. And like many…

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'Don't Tell Mum' - New Children's book available via Magcloud

‘Don’t Tell Mum’ – New Children’s book available via Magcloud

Don’t tell mum By Stephen Ignacio in Children’s Books by Stephen Ignacio 12 pages, published 3/19/2021 A short children’s story where Dan disobeys his mother and needs to be rescued from a pit by his friend Pat. After months of thinking about it and planning I finally completed my first children’s illustrated short story. ‘Don’t tell mum’ is a simple narrative in which a boy called Dan…

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Deciding directions at a crossroads

Deciding directions at a crossroads

Past few months as you will have noticed I decided to not write anything about my art, at least not on this blog. I had reached a crossroad you could say. I had become to comfortable with one style and had started to look at other avenues I wanted to try and it was time to walk out of the comfort zone. It was time to experiment and try things which I had not tried in many years, sculpture,…

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Make it your own journey not someone else’s

Make it your own journey not someone else’s

It’s been well over a month since I last wrote anything in this blog. And not for not wanting to, but there was not much to say. The journey to finding a route, a pathway sometimes hits obstacles, hazards or crossroads and going through them you sometimes don’t know what exactly it is you going through. Art has always been that Path where I have looked for a destination and even though some people…

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It’s about not switching off a part of you

It’s about not switching off a part of you

We have all read those inspirational blogs and articles on how to make outstanding artwork and how to sell your work, most giving the illusion that if you continue producing great quality work that you will end up making a living out of it. Now the truth, how many artists do you know actually make a living from their artwork and how many more do you know never actually get to sell anything or much…

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A new normal - the designs for masks

A new normal – the designs for masks

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Back in April when the opportunity arose to create designs for masks i grappled with the idea. It seemed totally wrong to even consider it, the world was living through a global pandemic, tens of thousands were losing their lives and it just seemed wrong to even think that your designs could be worn on something which was there to reduce the risk of the spread of a…

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Let’s SQUIGGLE

So what is SQUIGGLE? It’s everything, and it’s absolutely nothing, it is as meaningless as you can get. Yet it is also an excellent excuse to smile, to feel silly, to forget the pressures around you for a moment and just to stop taking life so seriously. It is an opportunity to take the piss without offending, to dance without rhythm or care, to feel different, to have nothing to say yet get asked…

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Colourless is better

I’m told I over think, I’m complicated and I’m sure the same people when they see my work will come to the same conclusion. Yet it’s simple, I don’t overthink nor am I complicated and when you understand this could be the case all perceptions of my work might be quite easy to understand. It’s quite simple really, like everyone I would like to be rich, be able to afford everything I have to work…

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Great restart with “Lockdown:inked by Gibraltar Magazine“ feature It’s been a good week starting with getting featured in the monthly publication The Gibraltar Magazine thanks to Elena Scialtiel.