Why am I called Five Minute Artist?

 

Becaue I believe:

" You can learn art techniques in five minutes..."

There I said it..

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I can hear the artworld toffs screaming - sacralige... but its not if I said to you draw me an elephant I'd be wrong, 

but if i said draw me the shapes you see in an elephant, it'll make drawing easier for you as you learn.

So when any art teacher says, "draw what you see", don't try and draw the subject, draw the shapes that make up the subject: 

squares, cubes, traingles, circles..etc. in most cases an ear of an elephant will be somewhere between

a rectangle and a triangle - although not perfect shapes but do them just roughly - you decide as you form the drawing.

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I used to be an educational specialists and know people learn in their own unique way some way different than others.

Sadly, I had cancer and that changed my world, so I needed to recover.

Whilst I painstakenly and slowly recovering and to keep my mind off the negatve stuff I used art as a form of therapy

- culinating in this web page and its offerings.

 

This very much a startup venture, but I'm ready to offer art and soon teach it to you so you can learn too.

 

I sincerely hope those sick out there and feeling forgotten they use art as a therapy and my story inspires you - don't ever give up! 

 

FAITH, FAMILY, FRIENDS and ART are there for you!

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Some people learn by doing (this is called a kinesthetic learner), from listening or from hearing someone else talk about it (audiotry), 

many of us learn through observational learning (that is watching the process or action).

 

It maybe all three and in any combination you learn best

therefore, soon I will offer how all three methods combined to teach you what you can do in a blog and video.

 

This I will do through art Youtube videos and blog content lessons.

The intention is to produce short, to the point videos, and well scripted blogs on all techniques on art:

Youngsters nowadays call it cheats my generation say it's getting to the point and avoiding the waffle.

 

It'll include how to choose a subject, drawing an initial outline of your subject and laying in first tones

as tones are where the biggest mistakes occur.

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I will expand further in the videos, so keep an eye out on here by following this page and or my social media for an announcment soon.

 

I've helped taught art privately to youngsters at prestiguous schools such as

Perce Upper in Cambridge who needed to build an ART portfolio,

some have been lucky to gone on to art school.

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I can teach and have done so for the last ten years but been doing art since the age of four,

I was never talented I just worked at getting better it's just a process - everyone can do art!

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I want to pass on the knowledge on how to take a subject like: a Kingfisher on a log, or leopold hanging in a tree

or even a full oil painting of a sail boat in a seascape and show you the whole process it doesn't matter if you're young or old!

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The Five Minute Artist videos will be a short cut to what to do instead of the long-winded academic blurb.

 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR VISIT, ITS APPRECIATED.