Helen English Artist
Compose yourself!
Next in my list of things which draw you to an artwork is composition. Literally, how do you compose your paper, board or whatever your...
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Helen English Artist
- Feb 14, 2021
- 2 min
The art of colour...
So, following on from last week with how to plan and create art that is good. I feel like I should clarify ‘good’ because there are many...
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Helen English Artist
- Feb 6, 2021
- 2 min
How to create good art
New month, new topic! Following a month talking about skill building, February seems like a good time to look at what we are trying to...
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Helen English Artist
- Jan 30, 2021
- 2 min
January skills
So, this month my blogs were about creative skills. First about upskilling through random creative classes – learning widely more than...
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Helen English Artist
- Jan 23, 2021
- 2 min
Thoughts from a journal...
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m a sucker for a cool journal! By this, I mean the book itself. It’s a bit of an obsession. I go...
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Helen English Artist
- Jan 16, 2021
- 2 min
What does skill building look like?
The second week of talking about skills. After talking about the value of attending classes which may not directly relate to your...
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Helen English Artist
- Jan 9, 2021
- 2 min
Upskilling...
This year, I am going to have a blog focus for each month. In January it is on developing creative skills. This week’s blog discusses why...
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Helen English Artist
- Jan 1, 2021
- 2 min
Happy New Year
So, a new year is upon us! I know that 2020 has been, and will be, rehashed many times because it is possibly the craziest year that any...
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Helen English Artist
- Dec 20, 2020
- 2 min
The art of decluttering!
I am not the tidiest person in the world…my mum would attest to that! The main problem is that I have the need to save things because of...
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Helen English Artist
- Dec 13, 2020
- 2 min
Christmas goals
As we gallop through December, in much the same speed as the year seems to have flashed by, I am going through the usual wrapping up of...
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Helen English Artist
- Dec 6, 2020
- 1 min
Going to market
I have a line, which I trot out with regularity. It is that you do nothing without learning something. It sounds contrite but it is true,...
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Helen English Artist
- Nov 28, 2020
- 3 min
Creative highs and lows...
This year has certainly been an interesting one, with one thing and another, and humanity seems to have been expressed in distinct ways....
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Helen English Artist
- Nov 21, 2020
- 2 min
Summer plans!
Where did the year go?! One minute I was packing to leave for England in March, then there was a wild blur and it was November. Now...
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Helen English Artist
- Nov 14, 2020
- 2 min
New ideas over coffee...
I’m all for the easy life but, to be honest, when I take a good look at myself I thrive when I have a challenge! I like it when I think...
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Helen English Artist
- Nov 7, 2020
- 3 min
The portrait process
Talking to someone who knows my work quite well, I realised that much as I assume that the process of my art commissions is obvious, it...
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Helen English Artist
- Nov 2, 2020
- 2 min
An arty weekend away
After seven or eight months in the lovely town where I live, I finally made it out for the weekend. This would not usually be an unusual...
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Helen English Artist
- Oct 24, 2020
- 3 min
Act your age!
This phrase came back to me after something which happened this week as a result of all of the political events in New Zealand, which...
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Helen English Artist
- Oct 17, 2020
- 2 min
Work and renovations
Funny that I should be talking about procrastination last week because there’s always something that provides a challenge, even if you...
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Helen English Artist
- Oct 10, 2020
- 2 min
The art of procrastination
When I worked fulltime for someone else, I didn’t procrastinate. In the office anyway! I used to walk into work on a Monday, know exactly...
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Helen English Artist
- Oct 3, 2020
- 3 min
Exhibitions & Competitions
During lockdown I set myself art tasks! They were designed (off the cuff) to create stability as well as the momentum to achieve artistic...
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