Dedicated to the Workaday Stiff

Written by Ben | 15 March 2009

Welcome to pardellarts.com, a website created by Ben Pardell to showcase the incredible talents wielded by his friends and family. It is very much a work in progress. While a few of the artists to be featured here are full time professionals in their field, this site is truly dedicated to the Workaday Stiff  who keeps a day job or raises a family and still scrapes together enough spare time to make art outside the constraints of commercial viability.

Find more info than you can handle at the About Pardellarts.com link.
If you have feedback, something to contribute, or would like to be featured on this site shoot me an email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Other artists can be reached via email adresses listed on the contacts page.

You Made That Up?

Written by Ben | 12 April 2009

Workaday Stiff? Work-a-day Stiff?  Well, I thought I made it up, until a simple Google search revealed 16,400 references.  Once again the web is the ultimate "check yourself" for the creative mind - revealing in fibre-optic speed that if you have an interesting idea, chances are someone else has had that same idea, and has already bought the domain name and has a crappy blog about it.

By Workaday Stiff I am referring to people who work and maintain creative exploits outside the constraints of commercial viability. Wait, I said that already.  This group includes but is probably not limited to:

  • Professional artists, architects, designers, engineers who make cool stuff on the side.  You know - that project you think about when work is boring.
  • Stay at home and working mothers who manage to keep it all together and paint the occasional landscape, or write the occasional love song.
  • That pretty much covers everyone.  If you don't identify, send me an email and I might even post your grievance.  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it