Art & Business

  • Kotouen (小陶苑) a beautiful pottery gallery and tea ceremony classroom Arashiyama, Japan

    Kotouen (小陶苑) a beautiful pottery gallery and tea ceremony classroom Arashiyama, Japan

    Kotouen (小陶苑) is a beautiful pottery gallery and tea ceremony classroom in the heart of Arashiyama, Japan. I visited the couple who’ve run it for over 50 years, a business passed down from the owner’s father. The atmosphere was still and I didn’t want to leave. Sitting in the garden with…


  • Recreating hand-drawn artwork using ChatGPT experiments

    Recreating hand-drawn artwork using ChatGPT experiments

    ChatGPT is pretty amazing, I call him G and he calls me Jezza. The fact that we’re leaning on and personalising this AI so much indicates how good it is.  So the major concern from artists is being replaced by AI, G disagrees this is going to happen and I’m…


  • Results of eight months of TikTok effect creating

    Results of eight months of TikTok effect creating

    I’ve been creating TikTok effects fairly regularly until recently when life got busy. My motivations were these:  Here’s some stats of where I’m at after eight months of creating (Mar 2025):  Other notes What has the effect creating translated to?  Learnings Wrap up It’s been an interesting time investment and…


  • Print on Demand (POD) services that I use

    Print on Demand (POD) services that I use

    If you’re looking for options for print on demand (or produce on demand) and you’re based in Australia, this article may be helpful.  I’m an illustrator and artist based in Western Australia and so I searched for POD (Print on Demand) options locally first. After finding there were no options…


  • Watermarking your digital artwork

    Watermarking your digital artwork

    At some point as an artist, we come across the subject of watermarking artwork to protect it from theft or repurposing. You might already do this as a daily practice.   There are definitely those who disagree with watermarking though. I’ve read articles and seen vids that make the arguments about…