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Glenn Barnett of Port Lincoln in South Australia is a Member of Mouth & Foot Painting Artists Pty Ltd. He delights in painting beautiful landscapes with brushes held in his mouth. Like many artists, Glenn has developed his skills over the years and experimented with a whole range of mediums. After a few years of painting with watercolours, I turned to oil paints. I enjoyed their flexibility; the way they worked into each various colour, and the ability to wipe off a mistake,” Glenn explains. “Then, in the mid 1970s, I tried acrylics. At this time I was talking to schools and community groups and demonstrating how I painted. It did not take long before I found it very difficult to actually achieve much of a result painting quickly with…

Roslyn Barrett believes that her ideal occupation would be writing and illustrating children’s books. Her background as a primary school teacher is doubtless a great asset, together with her talent for dealing with children. She currently works with ‘special needs’ children and helps them to integrate into everyday classroom situations. After studying art while completing her Higher School Certificate, Roslyn allowed some years to pass before taking watercolour classes at Eastwood Community College and also at WEA in Sydney where she was tutored by Helen Hall. She describes Helen as an excellent teacher. Although family and career commitments have dominated much of Roslyn Barrett’s life, art has found its way into her existence in a really positive way. “I have been interested in art and history since I was at…

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Remia Montayre Homuk is originally from the Philippines town of Sindangan, Zamboanga . After moving to Sydney in 1984, she married and continued to follow her clear artistic destiny. This lady is a natural artist. She was born with the artistic gifts that she has nurtured and developed. She began to draw human faces and forms at the age of three, and her talent grew with her through childhood. At the tender age of 15, Remia was commissioned to sculpt the Holy Family for a private collection. With an artistic family background, Remia Homuk enjoyed a fertile environment in which to grow her talents. Her father (a sculptor) encouraged her to study architecture. Her mother was a school teacher. Remia is also a guitarist – with significant skills in the…

MATERIALS • 106 x 84 cm Stretched Canvas on a timber frame. • Oil paints: Winsor & Newton – Terre Verte; Cadmium Yellow Hue; Burnt Umber; Titanium White; Ivory Black; Cadmium Yellow; Raw Sienna; Spectrum Orange; Spectrum Red; French Ultramarine; Raw Umber; Liquin Oleopasto Medium (drying gel). • Brushes: Mostly small Sable brushes, as well as a wide thick bristle brush used for dabbing. STEP ONE The first step is to select my subject: In this case, the view from Sydney’s Observatory Park (I had taken a photograph earlier). On a timber framed stretched canvas, I pencil sketch what I find interesting from the photograph. I select a focal point to attract the eye, in order to make an inviting subject. When satisfied with the balance, I proceed to prepare…

MATERIALS • Canvas pad. • Artists’ acrylic paints: Burnt Sienna; Red Oxide; Yellow Oxide; Mid Yellow; Brilliant Alizarine; Cadmium Red; Cerulean Blue; Prussian Blue; Ultramarine Blue; White and Black. • Various brushes. Painting with a brush held in the mouth, I work in sections. I begin with the sky, as I prefer to work from the sky to the foreground. I usually do not do preliminary sketches. My normal method is to complete a base and/or a complete section in one sitting. Fast drying acrylics can sometimes be an asset in my style of painting; while occasionally presenting problems. Working ‘forward’ from the sky means that I sometimes need to paint over completed sections to progress the work. Steps on page .…

MATERIALS • Paper: Aquarelle Arches watercolour block, 185gsm, rough. • Paints: Winsor & Newton artists’ watercolours – Burnt Sienna, Payne’s Grey, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Red, and Chinese White. • Brushes: Numbers 1, 2, 8 and 10. • Winsor & Newton Masking Fluid. • Tracing paper for stencil. • Old toothbrush. STEP ONE I draw up the house-scape by using my own stencil. The important thing at this stage is to get a balanced overall composition. I loosely put the trees in position. When I am happy with this, I use Winsor & Newton watercolour art masking fluid to outline the edges of the houses that will be in contact with the loose areas of the sky and background. This allows me the freedom to let the paint move around and…

MATERIALS • Arches hot pressed ‘Satine’ 300gsm paper (finished size 28 x 19 cm). • Sable Brushes: Numbers 0, 1 and 2. • Pencils. • Winsor & Newton Watercolours: Cadmium Lemon; Cadmium Yellow; Yellow Ochre; Cadmium Red; Permanent Rose; Cerulean Blue; French Ultramarine. STEP ONE The arrangement and sketch. With seven Beurre Bosc pears, I experimented with several arrangements. I eventually discarded two pieces of fruit for a better, less cluttered composition. Having decided on an arrangement, I secured the placed fruit with Blu a -Tack few dots ® and of very strategically lightly drew an outline of the pears onto my watercolour paper. So that it would reproduce satisfactorily, I made the outline in this demonstration much heavier and darker than usual. STEP TWO The first watercolour wash. Working…

In my hasty sketch (although it was done very quickly), I attempted to capture as much visual information as possible with a few strokes of the pencil. My intention was to use the study at a later date for a painting. Instead, I have used the sketch as a study for a charcoal and conte sketch on coloured paper. I used a blue medium-weight paper. I chose blue because of the striking blues the mountains are named for, and knowing that some of the paper colour would show through on the finished work. Charcoal, like graphite, comes in similar grades (HB, 2B etc). So if you are used to using graphite you might find charcoal an easy medium to try … although charcoal can be a little messy, which is…

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Decide on the size of your finished work. Because masking tape is overlapped from the protective cartridge paper onto the working paper, your finished picture will be slightly smaller than the cut-out frame. MATERIALS • Cartridge paper. • Masking tape. • Working paper or board (Wallis Board, Art Spectrum Pastel Board or Fabriano Acquarello Cold Pressed Watercolour Paper) 200gsm plus. • Long metal ruler. • Stanley knife with sharp blade. • Cutting board. • Graphite pencils: 2B to 6B. • Willow charcoal. • Hard pastels for drawing (square ‘Nupastels’ are ideal). • Small old hand towels. • Matisse Matt Medium. • Matisse Gesso. • Assortment of hard and soft pastels: Nupastel, Art Spectrum, Unison, Daler-Rowney, and Schmincke. • Assortment of brushes. STEP ONE Make your sheet of cartridge paper the…

This is a simple dynamically created landscape. I call this my ‘rough as guts’ method. Results are not always predictable, but the end product is always legible. I sense spontaneous dribbles going in various directions; then filling in areas with blocks of intense colour. This intensity adds drama, especially when the sense of light comes from the back giving a morning or evening glow. MATERIALS • Art Spectrum pre-primed pastel paper (Cream). • A firm support board and tape to hold the pastel paper flat. • Art Spectrum inks: Sepia and Black. • Soft hake brush, 2 inch. • Langridge dry ground powdered pigment, Pale Gold, applied with eye dropper. • Spray water bottle. • Limited selection of pastels (blue/green) that are harmonious and one complimentary or contrast (warm pink)…