Drawing on location (urban sketching)
Somewhere in the midst of thinking about the many creative endeavours I wanted to explore further, I decided I wanted to try urban...
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Gillian Hancey
Oct 74 min read
Don't scroll, draw!
I discovered Zentangle at a Sketchbook Revival* workshop a couple of years ago and wanted to explore it further. The problem was that I...
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Gillian Hancey
Jan 1, 20232 min read
Our obsession with a narrative
As humans, we have a natural fixation on storytelling. We take in information more readily when it is presented to us in the form of a...
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Gillian Hancey
Oct 1, 20221 min read
Changing perception
We have a tendency to look for something familiar in the unknown; patterns we recognise. For example, when presented with a piece of...
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Gillian Hancey
Sep 30, 20223 min read
Why is art valuable?
The money that is paid for artwork can be eye-watering (and often controversial). But what is it about art that makes it valuable? In his...
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Gillian Hancey
Sep 28, 20225 min read
The importance of the title
When I first started selling my work, I realised I needed to give it a title. To be honest, I didn’t really like this idea as it felt too...
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Gillian Hancey
Sep 4, 20223 min read
Working with mistakes
Through education, we are generally conditioned into thinking that mistakes are bad and that we should avoid them. The less mistakes we...
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Gillian Hancey
Jul 23, 20222 min read
Our perception of imagination
Imagination is an essential part of what makes us human. It is part of the package that gave us the intelligence that set us apart from...
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Gillian Hancey
Jul 23, 20221 min read
How different art forms relate
This is as far as my understanding has taken me...it seems too simplistic but it's intended only to get my head around the basic...
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Gillian Hancey
Jul 19, 20223 min read
Is the longevity of art important?
We are living in a time when we worry about things having too much longevity, yet we generally don't apply this way of thinking to works...
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Gillian Hancey
Jul 5, 20223 min read
5 reasons to copy something
Almost every art class I’ve ever been in has involved the task of copying something (and ideally some techniques to help us with the...
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Gillian Hancey
Jul 2, 20222 min read
Beyond descriptive capture
What would you find more interesting, a journal that is just a descriptive account of what a person did everyday or one where you really...
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Gillian Hancey
Jun 28, 20223 min read
Our tendancy to organise
Painters notoriously like to get some colour on a blank canvas as quickly as possible because starting with a clean, white space is very...
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Gillian Hancey
Jun 27, 20224 min read
Can art stand alone?
Let’s talk about circus performers. There’s no doubt about it; they provide excellent entertainment for all ages and we don’t sit there...
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