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Amateur

Frustrations Boil Over

by John Lacey on July 15, 2010

Right now I’m just feeling frustrated and incompetent. I found myself referring to myself as an ‘amateur visual artist’ and then realised I was an amateur at pretty much everything I do. I’m not sure my skills have value. I’m not sure how much I can really develop them. I suspect the desire to express myself creatively might be another in a long series of pipedreams.

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Mixed Media: Head Turned

by John Lacey on June 3, 2010

Following my recent experiments with pen sketches, comes this image. It is a combination of pen and paper and digital tweaking with a graphics tablet. A very simple image but one I enjoyed creating.

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Pen Sketches

by John Lacey on May 31, 2010

It was something I had all but forgotten until quite recently, but back in high school art classes I was introduced to an artist (whose name sadly now escapes me) who worked exclusively in pen.

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Painting: Abstract (Tetris)

by John Lacey on May 20, 2010

I joke that this is my ‘tetris’ painting, but really I was just playing with shapes, grids, colours and washes.

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