Outside the Golden Lion, Ormskirk · Mark C Grant
Put the brush down. The painting has a point.
How to diagnose an awkward passage before your rescue operation becomes the main event.
Artist practice
The work between the works.
Keeping a sketchbook. Making time. Choosing materials without starting a small retail business. The ordinary things that let a painting happen.
Waterstones, Liverpool · Mark C Grant
The twenty-minute sketchbook
A small working habit for days when becoming a great artist has to fit around the washing.
Keith’s, Lark Lane, Liverpool · Mark C Grant
Paper before another heroic palette purchase
Cotton, cellulose, sizing and pigment labels, without the art-shop superiority complex.
Long Shadows, Southport · Mark C Grant
The painting starts before the easel comes out
Choosing an outdoor subject by what the picture needs, rather than what has the biggest visitor sign.
Pull up a chair.
Share your own painting, ask for critique, or join a conversation about the work. Read freely; make an account to post. The opening topics are editorial prompts. Replies come from real readers.
Studio discussion