Hi, so this is a new blog that I will be dedicating to all my creative work from the recent past and for the foreseeable future. I have a feeling that I've spelled foreseeable wrong (it just looks wrong for some reason) - and that wasn't deliberate - but it does give me the opportunity to warn you that spelling mistakes will happen here, possibly quite often.

When I used to create blog posts on a regular basis I was in college - LSAD - and it was something that was encouraged, mainly so that a; you would have an online back-up of your work, and b; your contemporaries could view your work and offer some feedback/critique. Which made sense, to me at least. But I won't have any constraints here so it's very likely that I will occasionally stray off topic or sometimes rant and rave about something totally irrelevant. But you'll get used to it (if you persevere) and hopefully even get to enjoy my musings.

Hopefully I'll get around to posting regularly, at least once a week, so that I can keep things up to date. I also hope to get plenty of comments/ feedback/ critique from you as my intention for this site is to offer some sort of help or guide to anyone wanting to learn about making art. On my part I will be adding any tips/ tricks of the trade that I have learnt from my own experience, and also pointing out my mistakes (which are sometimes obvious after I've made them - see below) so that others may avoid them. So any tips etc from other artists can be added via comments as my personal experience - in painting at least - is rather limited.

Have you spotted the GLARING mistake?

 



 I started a series of 'Island fishermen' paintings which are meant as a humorous depiction of traditional fishermen who carry their "Currach" with them all the time. This was a provisional draft for one of them when the lads get rained off and so go to the local pub for the day. I've almost finished the revised version and will be adding it to the Gallery (which is currently a work in progress).

I'm going to start off with a look at what I've been doing over the past year, as this is when I really decided that I was going to try and become an artist to earn a living. Mainly because I found it almost impossible to get a regular job. Even when it came to doing work that I had several years experience at - must be my age or something. I had a studio set up in the loft space of our shed (yes, the same 'The Shed' studios where 'The Oldest Lion' was shot (no I didn't shoot a lion in our shed)). This gave me the idea to rename my old blog and start afresh with some of my current activity. Hence the name 'The Shed Studio3'. It wasn't supposed to have a 3 on the end but I also renamed my Etsy shop (feel free to have a look if you haven't already) and needed to add the 3 for that. Fortunately I like the number 3 - except for maybe when it's a crowd - or it's the amount of legs that second-hand table came with - but it does make the name seem a bit trendier.

 In the next post I'll probably have a look at some of the earlier paintings that I've made and gradually work my was up to what I'm doing now, until then - adios.