An i-pad is a marvellous tool for planning your composition. My daily paintings are square and instead of using a little viewfinder and squinting, I can take a photo on my i-pad and crop it to a square. There is also a choice of other formats. Here is the photo as taken by the i-pad. Be sure to take your photo from where you'll stand or sit when painting, or all the angles will be different. In the top right corner it says Edit. Click this. The crop tool is the second tool from the … [Read more...]
A Rose for Lois 10-03-16
Lois Ellen Graessle passed away yesterday afternoon. There are not enough words to encapsulate Lois who was colourful, sassy, funny, articulate, a friend to everyone regardless of whether they were the hospital cleaner or the chief of oncology, deeply spiritual, an initiator and so the list goes on. She worked with charities, with teenagers in trouble, with outsiders – refugees, mental health, prisons and writers at risk. Many, many people will miss her. In her inimitable style, she managed to … [Read more...]