Category: On the Easel weekly blog
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My painting process (a time-lapse)
This week I finished this painting of a building in Florence: Therefore, I wanted to talk in a bit more detail about the process behind creating a painting like this. Stage 1: Sketching and Planning This stage is always loose and expressive. In this particular painting I used a very soft charcoal stick so that…
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Thoughts on creativity
If you have any creative interests, be that fine art, music, creative writing, film-making or anything else go and get a copy of Steal like an artist by Austin Kleon if you haven’t already read it. I haven’t even finished the book yet and it has already a massive impact on my mindset as an…
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On the Easel this week! My first blog
Hi I’m Samuel Raphael, a 20 year old fine artist, and if you’re reading this then you are seeing my first ever blog post. I am a Psychology student at the University of Edinburgh but I also work as an artist on the side. Most of my commissions have been paintings of people’s pets and…
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