Artist Tips #1: Media

In my lifetime, I have painted with darned near everything meant to be used as paint. I’ve used automotive lacquer, industrial enamel, vinyl paint, fabric ink, dye, water colour, gouache, pastel, acrylic and oil – and probably a few I’ve forgotten...

Ellis House Community Art Centre

The year was 1999 and at a tender 38 years of age, I joined the Bayswater Art Society. Since the early ’80s, I’d worked as an airbrush artist decorating custom painted vehicles, an illustrative signwriter painting massive murals on city buildings and...