by Andy Dolphin | Aug 10, 2014 | about, oil painting, painting studio
For a long time I battled with the problem of what to do with wet oil paintings.I had a small rack I’d made from a piece of chipboard with some strips of pine screwed to it, but it only held four paintings at a time and there was a risk of the paintings falling...
by Andy Dolphin | Jan 6, 2014 | about, painting studio, still life
Happy new year blog reader!I haven’t had much chance to paint over the “festive season” but I did manage to find some time to build myself a stand for setting up still life arrangements.I’ve wanted to do still life for some time but I never...
by Andy Dolphin | Jan 23, 2012 | about, painting studio
I’ve just built myself a “custom-designed” computer/monitor stand for my new studio. I’m not much of a handy man (“Andy by name, not by nature”, some might say), but I’m pretty happy with the result.Built from some home-made...
by Andy Dolphin | Sep 26, 2011 | about, news, painting studio
One of the reasons I haven’t painted much for the last few months is that I’ve been trying to set up a new studio. The space I’m adapting is from an enclosed verandah that was here when we bought the house. Part of that room was demolished to make...