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The Artistic Curmudgeon
http://tait-gallery.blogspot.com
The ideas, thoughts, journal and artwork of 60-year-old curmudgeonly seascape oil painter Jim Tait.
- Added on: Oct 12th, 2008
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Jim Tait
- Listed in: Arts Visual Arts
- Tags: painting humour landscapes oil painter curmudgeon seascapes
Recent Posts
LITTLE ARTISTIC OUTPUT
My final Toll Clock Centre trade stall of 2009, which was not particularly successful in terms of sales, took place on Thursday. Many people passed by, few stopped to look, and even fewer bought. My neighbouring stallholder, who was selling Shetlan...
ME v PARCELFORCE - L\'ENVOI?
When I got back from my Monday trip to Whiteness, fairly late in the evening, I found, waiting on my doormat, amid the usual assortment of cards and catalogues, the letter with enclosures which I have been earnestly awaiting for the last two months. ...
DEEP AND CRISP AND EVEN
Shetland is blanketed in a thick covering of the cold white stuff today, and it all looks very beautiful. The Met Office is not predicting an early quick thaw, and a white Christmas is a distinct possibility. Children are out on the Knab with their...
ON SELFISHNESS AND SELF-EMPLOYMENT
I am a self-employed artist, and, for more than a quarter of a century, I have been single. This means that I am self-contained, self-obsessed and self-catering. This also means that I am a painter, accountant, filing clerk, computer operator, rec...
ME v. PARCELFORCE (CHAPTER NUMPTEEN), AND OTHER ARTWORK
I sent the package, containing my French-resident client's painting, again on Monday 30th November. For you few patient, long-suffering followers of this journal, this is the one that was originally posted on 28th September, had its adhesive address ...
THE EMERGENCY ARTIST!
While people have been suffering heartache and material loss as a result of the recent rainstorms in many parts of Britain, the bad weather drove an unexpected piece of business my way. A gallery, in one of the locations so affected, had some artwor...
