Innholdsfortegnelse for No 190 i Artist's Palette

Dear Editor Many thanks for the Insight Profile and Demonstration depicting my art in Artist’s Palette No. 95. The colour content of my images was really great, very close to the originals. Also another big thank you for using one of my paintings on the cover, it was a nice surprise when one of my students brought the magazine into the class. I also wanted to thank you again for the previous issue in which you selected me as the Windsor and Newton Winner and the surprise of a package arriving with a set of the Artists’ Water Soluble Oils. It’s an excellent paint that I have demonstrated with, and several of my students love this paint!!! Kind Regards, Margarette Looney via email Dear Margarette – thank you for your…

MATERIALS • A3 size canvas sheet• Derwent Inktense Pencils• HB pencil• Fixative spray• Masking fluid• Plastic eraser• Kneadable eraser• Good quality watercolour brushes• Liner brush• Round well mixing palette• Paper towel• Derivan Matisse backgroundFolk Black acrylic paint I am going to paint Neddy at three months old from a favourite photograph, using a sheet from an A3 size canvas pad and Derwent Inktense pencils. As the name suggests, these pencils are ink-based and can be used dry or wet, or both. They are especially interesting to use on canvas because you can build up colour with several layers and when needed, you can work off enough unwanted colour with water and a stiff bristle brush to go over with another colour. This I couldn’t do if I was using a…

When one thinks of France, one thinks of art. A trip to France would not be complete without a visit to the Musee du Louvre in Paris or to another found throughout the country. Almost on every street corner you can find an artist to paint you a picture and it’s this very simple love of art that makes the French so proud of their culture and so endearing to the rest of us. Even if you know nothing about art, the names Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Eugene Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Henri Matisee are so familiar they feel like long lost friends. These artists of the 1800s and 1900s are so a part of our psyche they have become part of our vocabulary also.…

I was born in Queensland and spent the early years of my life in the outback until my teens, when we moved to Ormiston, south of Brisbane. I met my husband, who was in the army, and didn’t realise that there would be a lot of travel. I have lived in most States of Australia and the best part was the Northern Territory where I got a lot of my inspiration from. I have two adult children, a son and a daughter who lives in Sydney. After 20 years of travel, my husband said goodbye to the army. We went back to Townsville but the heat was affecting my husband so we moved to the Sunshine Coast in 2005, but in Jan 2006 tragedy struck my family as my husband…

I have had a passion for art from early childhood. My first painting was the interior of a wall-bed cupboard when I was nine years old. The large white interior surfaces were too tempting. I climbed onto the bed with a mug of red house paint and a few tiny tubes of other colours and a brush. The big back panel has a huge sad clown with a ladder, a dog on a fat leash and a row of sunflowers above his head. The sides and doors have butterflies, birds, gardens, trees and dogs. But the “pièce de résistance” is Ned. Ned is a small, happy clown with my brother’s wild curly hair, long knobbly legs and big grin. Even sophisticates sleeping in the bed enjoy Ned smiling down at…

Having spent almost all my life around water I guess you could say I have salt in my veins and have spent many happy hours by the sea and lakes. Until the age of 30 I lived at Cronulla, a beautiful stretch of beaches and bays south of Sydney bordering the Royal National Park in NSW. My teens were spent riding surfboards before and after school. I didn’t have one of my own so used to pinch my now brother-in-law’s board while he was at work.. Lots of paintings were done in oils during these years of the surf, bays and surrounds. Even though I was self-taught I am proud to say I always sold my work at local art shows and school fund-raisers. At 30 I sailed off into…

MATERIALS • Pre-primed large canvas or size of your choice• Leaves, sticks and bark (when gathering these items look for odd shapes and different lengths)• Clear paint medium (if on a budget you can use a mixture of water and medium)• Gloss Vanish (JO SONJA’S or brand of your choice)• JO SONJA’S Colours (or brand of your choice): Yellow Deep, Indian Yellow, Orange, Vermilion, Cadmium Orange, Napthol Red Light, Cadmium Scarlet, Napthol Crimson, Ultramarine Blue Deep.• Black Gesso for your background• Bucket with clean water• Old rags• 4 to 5 water spray bottles (250mls) depending on number of colours• Old pantyhose• Two old glass jars• Eye dropper or paddle pop stick After watching the bush fires in Victoria in 2009, I couldn’t believe the colours in the fire. How can…

MATERIALS • Cotton duck canvas, titanium primed single thick• Selected acrylic paints• Monte Marte Two Seasons acrylic set• Brushes - medium and line (Bristle : Taklon)• Container of water• Spray bottle of water• Masking tape• Damp cloth STEP ONE Working from several reference photographs I decide to paint a dry sclerophyll forest scene. I want to create a painting that captures the strength and beauty of tall gums and the atmosphere of a forest on a misty morning with the sunlight illuminating the trees. The scene I am painting is derived from bushland I am very familiar with – in the Brookfield area in South East Queensland area where I grew up and still visit frequently. I have taken many photographs of the area that I use as reference. Working…