Transcending everyday consciousness

Would you like to enter the higher reaches of human nature?

Let a great composer and a great performer get you 'into the zone'!.

J. S. Bach - German Lutheran organist and one of the greatest musical minds in Western music.

Find a quiet five minutes to listen to this video of the great Japanese guitarist Kazuhito Yamashita interpreting a work by the great Lutheran German organist J. S. Bach.

Click here to watch the video at You Tube.

Read this great description, watch the video and look at the architecture as Blair Jackson describes his experience of the transcendental at a performance of Bach by Yamashita, in a Lutheran church in San Francisco.

"What an engrossing and enriching journey these two concerts proved to be. I felt privileged to have witnessed Yamashita’s remarkable feat, the cumulative power of which is indescribable. Four days later, my head is still filled with glorious Bach bouncing through my head when I least expect it. It’s a wonderful feeling." - Blair Jackson.

Kazuhito Yamashita plays all the Bach pieces for solo violin.

Peter Inglis on China

An interview I did with Channel Chinese regarding Sino-Australian relations.

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Perspective in a Pumpkin

Remember Cezanne's three basic shapes?

1. Square
2. Triangle
3. Circle

When we add a 3rd dimension (depth) to these shapes we get:

1. Cube
2. Cone
3. Sphere

This video shows us how to realistically place eyes and a mouth on a pumpkin, and rotate it in any direction.

Perspective tricks that work: Spheres and pumpkins

A fantastic video from the master of perspective - Marshall Vandruff. This is the guy I talk about in most classes who teaches perspective with chalk and a blackboard.

Free colour fact sheets

Here's a great new feature of my art coaching sessions in 2018: every person who turns up with their artists visual diary gets a free (colour) handout like this:

... with a short explanation.

Each handout explains one of our important painting concepts. Not too much information, just enough to reflect on while you are enjoying your new painting and looking at the great colours you mixed and recorded in your diary.

Sketching Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' version 1

This is one of my sketches from a Van Gogh Sunflowers session.

"Sunflowers ?? !! ?? ", I hear you exclaim!

Here is the sketch and the original Van Gogh.

Aha! Hopefully you are saying "aha!" about now.

Can you see that it is an abstract version of the painting? All good painting and drawing is based on abstraction. Our brain interprets the world via abstractions.

So this is a compositional sketch. I am looking for:

1. The big shapes
2. The relationship between those shapes
3. The rhythms

This process is explained in my book: How to Sketch Shapes.

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