Martin Kirkwood


eFrame.co.uk A critical review.

Posted 5 months ago

While surfing the internet I came across eFrame.co.uk
They appeared to be able to make custom mounts and frames for my original paintings at half the cost and in half the time of my local high street picture framers? What? Really? That’s what I thought so I went ahead and ordered a small frame and mount to my exact requirements using th…

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Even more bonkers than the last silly idea.

Posted 9 months ago

Well, after the silly idea of painting blindfold, Helen Bascom thought it might be fun to try photography while blindfolded.in Gracey’s journal here

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Oooh I've just acquired a camera.

Posted about 1 year ago

I took delivery the other day of a sparkly new Nikon D80 digital SLR. I’m so excited as I haven’t used an SLR for about 10 years but I’ve been far too busy working to play with it properly until today and it’s been chucking it down with rain and has been really gloomy outside.

I’m still trying to figure out what all the buttons do but my very first and really rubbish attempts can be seen “he…

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How to upload a painting?

Posted about 1 year ago

Like many painters, I’m lousy at photography but it’s still possible to upload a print ready image of a painting with a few minor bits of digital trickery.

As you can see, this is not a good photograph and not really suitable to make fine art reproductions of a painting on redbubble. It’s not easy to crop as the shot isn’t taken squarely and the painting is at a funny angle….

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Landscape Painting Group.

Posted about 1 year ago

After searching the relatively small painting community on redbubble for a group dedicated to landscape painting it soon became apparent that there wasn’t one.

Myself and Avril Brand are proud to announce the brand new group Landscape Painting

Thanks so much to those who have joined already. Our …

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A Rubbish Collaboration.

Posted about 1 year ago

Some astute members may have noticed that I have recently been experimenting with new painting techniques (new to me anyway) and I’ve been uploading complete tosh to redbubble at an alarming rate.

If you think the stuff I’ve uploaded recently is rubbish you should have seen all the experiments I haven’t allow public eyes to gaze upon.

Being criticised in private circles for having spurts…

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