Innholdsfortegnelse for No 181 i Artist's Palette

Having swept my creative side under the carpet for many years, I am finally making some ‘me’ time and learning to paint. But where to start – with absolutely no experience at all? With no after hours art classes close to home, I subscribed to Artist’s Palette magazine and found the answer … Reading the advertisement for Genesis Heat Set Oils over and over, I decided that the medium’s flexibility would suit my lifestyle. And there were teaching DVDs for beginners using Genesis. So about 12 months ago, with a total of four drawing lessons under my belt and only a dabble with a brush in watercolours, I purchased a kit of Genesis Heat Set Oils along with the DVD ‘Learn to Paint with Robyn Cooper’. Robyn is a great…

MATERIALS • Atelier Interactive colours: Yellow Ochre; Raw Sienna Dark; Arylamide Yellow Light; Arylamide Yellow Deep; Cobalt Turquoise; Cobalt Blue; Pacific Blue; Ultramarine; Burnt Sienna; Paynes Grey; Quinacridone Magenta; Cadmium Orange; Pthalo Green; Titanium White.• Winsor & Newton stretched canvas 91 x 122 cm.• Brushes: One-and-a-half inch Dream Finish paint brush; Neef Number 12 flat stiff synthetic; Neef Number 6 flat stiff synthetic; Neef Number 1; Robert Wade Number 6 Taklon rigger; Winsor & Newton Number 5 round synthetic; Roymac Number 4 fan bristle.• Easel (four wheel castors with ratchet to raise and lower).• Cleaning: Viva paper towels; tissues; Chux; spray bottle.• Palette: Sta-Wet Painter’s Pal.• Charcoal.• Atelier Varnish Medium.• Modelling compound.• Atelier Gesso.• Ruler to draw up grid.• Four 8 x 6 inch photographs.• Perspex painting board.• Masking tape.•…

SELECT FROM AN OUTSTANDING CHOICE OF EASELS AT S&S WHOLESALE S&S Wholesale stocks a wide variety of easels for everyone from the beginner, student and hobbyist right through to the professional artist. There are many types of easels for different applications … painting, pastel work, indoor or outdoor use. Easels are designed in a variety of styles to accommodate the many different ways artists work. There are five styles of easels: The Table Easel, the Tripod Easel, the Box or French style Easel, the Lyre (A-Frame) Easel, and the Studio (H-Frame) Easel. There are a number of variations to each of these that offer different tilt settings, storage options and size capabilities. BEST Easels Every artist should know the joy of using exquisite equipment. BEST easels are known as some…

• When using acrylics, specifically Atelier Interactive, don’t fight the nature of the substance. Employ the use of the mediums which assist greatly in aiding the completion of the work. For instance use clear painting medium, slow medium and a water atomiser for blending and glazing. • Use quality paints, brushes, and other materials. You will really notice the difference in how much easier the painting process becomes. • Try to use your reference images, and remember they are there to guide you. We as artists have a free range creative licence … don’t just try to replicate what you see as being correct. Modify and alter elements to create a more interesting painting. Use numerous reference images and piece them together to create a new puzzle. • Don’t be…

MATERIALS • Colourfix pastel paper – Grey or Black.• Charcoal for sketching up the portrait (if using Black pastel paper, use a light pastel pencil).• Schminke pastels: Orange Deep; Permanent Red 1 Pale; English Red; Burnt Umber; Ochre Light; Lighter Ochre (for highlights).• Pastel eraser. STEP ONE For my facial portraits, I sometimes start with one of the eyes. This then gives me something by which I can measure everything else on the face. There are many other ways of drawing up portraits of course – and each teacher or pupil will have their own way of doing it. STEP TWO My finished drawing. I go over it to make sure that everything is lined up correctly. I will make allowances along the way when I get the colouring in…

PAINTING ATMOSPHERIC WATERCOLOUR LANDSCAPES – WITH ROBERT BRINDLEY RSMA Robert Brindley specialises in painting atmospheric landscapes and coastal scenes – often inspired by the dramatic scenery near his home just outside the old fishing port of Whitby on the north-east coast of England. Whitby was where the great explorer Captain Cook did his maritime training. In this his first DVD, Robert sets out to show something of his careful and highly organised approach to watercolour. Robert Brindley is a member of the prestigious Royal Society of Marine Painters and it’s therefore not surprising that marine subjects make up two of the four painting demonstrations on this two hour DVD. Robert’s approach to watercolour is meticulous and he shows how he starts each painting by mixing the pools of colour he…

My name is currently Gemma Louise Pap. It was Gemma Louise Haworth, until I came to Australia four years ago and met my soulmate living here in the Whitsundays. It sounds a bit like a movie plot … but I bought a ticket on his charter boat, where he had just had his hostess finish up; so he was running the trips himself until he found a replacement. I had a great time on the trip and the skipper asked me if I wanted to come back as a volunteer on the next one, as they were a bit short-staffed. Of course I said yes … and I must have impressed my future husband (Frank). He hired me. We started working together. We fell in love and we were married…

Brisbane has been home to me for most of my life, and I have always been creative. But something just exploded when I moved to the beautiful paradise of tropical far north Queensland. Having studied art subjects throughout high school, and having always felt a passion for arts and crafts, I knew I wanted to do something in the creative field. Thinking I wanted to be a fashion designer, for my first year out of school I studied a Certificate IV in Clothing Production (Textiles, Clothing and Footwear) at Mt Gravatt TAFE in suburban Brisbane. My career path changed when, in 2005, I moved to Cairns with my husband. That was when my artistic life really began to flourish and my passion evolved. The move contributed to my need to…

Originally from North Holland in the Netherlands, I now live at Clifton in Queensland. I have had no special art training, aside from the art I studied at school. Fantasy art is what motivates me … being able to create my own world at least on paper … and making things look a bit different from reality. As a child, I loved drawing. After coming to Australia and having a family, I tried other mediums – but in due course I realised that drawing is ‘it’ for me. About ten years ago, when my children had grown up, I started drawing again on a more regular basis – although it was hard finding the time even then. I am purely a hobby artist. I do not want to sell my…

Canberra born Graham W. Smith (now of Wynnum in Brisbane) commenced his artistic life with a pencil drawing of a racing car (at under five years of age). The artist still has it in his possession today. At the age of 14 he was doing perspective drawings of his family home in Sydney, as well as watercolours of the launching of Sputnik and sunset scenes. Having a grandfather who painted in oils and watercolours in the Sydney Rocks area in 1905, and a father who was a cartoonist, helped fuel young Graham’s desire to have fun illustrating English castles and battle scenes for his history lessons. Graham did his first large watercolour in 1967 and shortly after that he joined the Nepean Art Society where one of his quotations was…

MATERIALS • Several sheets of A2 45gsm Canson Bank paper.• 2B pencils.• Soft Faber-Castell rubber.• Archers Watercolour Paper – Smooth 300gsm.• Faber-Castell PITT Artist Pens (Indian Ink) sizes M, F and S.• Millenium ZIG Pigment Pens (black) sizes 005 and 01.• Francheville brush: Number 3 Pure Red Sable.• Winsor & Newton Ink (black).• Home-made light table.• Super Prism Enlarger by Artograph. STEP ONE I search through my many visual diary pages to find a suitable dragon. STEP TWO On a sheet of A2 Canson Bank paper, I project the image. While tracing the image I make some initial changes to the legs, reduce spots and add things as needed. I also put in the fence caging the dragon. STEP THREE On a separate sheet of paper I draw my visitors…