You never know what might become collectible
When I was a kid, I loved Batman and Superman. I used to get the comics whenever I could. As they were published in America, I could only get them from one specialist shop. When I’d read them, my younger brother used to take over. He is six years younger than me so I get they got pretty beat up.
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But it’s ‘only’ a photograph
I’ve heard one or two snarky comments like that. Not, luckily about our own work. But it seems that there are still some people who don’t regard photography as ‘real art’. I don’t know why this is. Is it because each and every one of us can take photographs? But each and every one of us can dabble about with oils on canvas too.
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It’s not the camera that matters…
We’ve all heard professionals say this kind of thing, usually when they leave the big glass camera behind and pull out the cheapie. “It’s not the camera, it’s the eye…”
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Meet the artist
Usually, when you see a title like that, it’s probably going to be one of two things. Either the artist is going to be at an event or exhibition and you can go along to meet him or her. Or you’re going to find that the page has the artist’s bio and photographs.
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Light impressions
Andy has a series of artworks called Light Impressions. I love them. I use them on this site as the photographs you see when you first come to the homepage. I suspect that Andy would like me to vary things a little but I love them so much. Maybe it’s because I prefer abstract art to figurative? I don’t know.
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Ah, but is it art?
This morning I found myself having an online discussion about iPhoneography. This was at a forum that is largely populated by what I would call ‘traditional’ artists – and lovely people they are too. We were discussing art movements and whether movements are easier to develop these days because of the ease of spreading information.
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