Innholdsfortegnelse for No 202 i Artist's Palette

I have always had a strong urge to draw, paint and to be creative generally. All through my school years my peers, teachers and family complimented me on my drawing skills and encouraged me, but somewhere along the way I came to the conclusion that it wasn’t worth while pursuing a career as an artist. I went to University, and motherhood followed swiftly. When my children were still small, my creative urges became too strong to ignore. I now feel very grateful for my artistic talent and I can’t imagine living my life without expressing it and sharing it. I have been painting fairly steadily now for five years, in between mothering three children and working on our 2,000 avocado tree farm in Denmark, Western Australia. I have received a…

ARTIST’S PALETTE magazine seeks to showcase the works of talented Australians producing art at a whole range of skill levels, whether they are accomplished creative people with a long history of achievements or beginners (of all ages) striving to build their identities and reach their particular artistic goals. This ‘Gallery’ segment provides a place to display pictures by people who may not have the means or the opportunity to be extensively featured in our magazine. Submissions are sought from such people for future Issues. This month we are pleased to display the work of another four enthusiastic artists. Each month we give a small prize to the person whose work we consider to be the most outstanding in Woodland’s Gallery. The prizes are being provided by Jasco. This issues’s prize…

I never planned to be an artist. Of course, when I was a child, like most children, I loved to draw but the dream of being ‘an artist’ soon began to diminish around the ripe old age of seven or eight. I took art classes in high school mostly because I could pass without having to work too hard. Not long after graduation I put my pencils away and never expected to pick them up again. I was nearing 32 years of age and had been backpacking around the world and living abroad for about six years when I had a bit of a crisis. I guess I felt my life was passing me by, perhaps the notion of midlife hit me early, and I became terribly depressed for quite some…

I was born 55 years ago in a small country town in NSW. I’m a great husband (according to my wife), a wonderful father (according to me) and a realist artist. I am now happily married and living on the beautiful Central Coast of NSW. From as long as I could remember I was interested in drawing and sketching, usually filling up my school books with cartoons, to the dismay of my parents, instead of Maths or English. My hard work paid off when I won an art prize in Primary School. It was not quite the academic award my parents would have like me to have received, although they were still proud. In High School I chose Art and Technical Drawing as electives, but in Senior High School I…

MATERIALS • 122 x 122 cm 6mm MDF fibre board• Protective gear: gloves, face mask, goggles• Windsor and Newton Acrylic Paints: I always experiment with new colours and I have at least 25 on my palette at any one time.• Gerstaecker Acrylic adhesive• Plasti Kote Spray paint• Neopastel Oil pastels• Daler Rowney Inks• Windsor & Netwon Satin Varnish• Staedtler Mars Lumograph Pencils• Pattern stencils• PVA glue• Various textures: corrugated cardboard, gauze, sand, bubble wrap, leaves, etc.• Collage materials: newspaper, magazine, coloured paper, ripped up old paintings, etc. STEP ONE I begin by applying textures to the MDF board in an arbitrary fashion with PVA glue. Corrugated cardboard, fabrics, sand, magazine pages, old ripped up drawings; nothing in the studio is safe from the possibility of ending up in my painting!…

Contributed PAINTS FROM S&S Acrylics Daler-Rowney Cryla Heavy Body Artists Acrylic Cryla was the first ever Artists Acrylic produced commercially, introduced into Europe in 1963 by the Rowney Company. Cryla Artists’ Acrylic colour is a very heavy-bodied colour with a high loading of the very purest, permanent and lightfast pigments. They are characterised by their thick buttery consistency, their uniform eggshell finish across all the colours in the range and the minimal colour shift from wet to dry. A high quality, acrylic co-polymer is used as the binding agent in Cryla’s manufacture which prevents the shift in colour from wet to dry. The unique heavy, buttery feel under the brush and knife is popular with artists wanting to achieve a wide variety of impasto effects. The recent revamp of the…

MATERIALS • Artist quality canvas 60cm x 45cm• Gesso primer• Artist quality oil paints: Cerulean Blue, French Ultramarine, Titanium White, Lilac, Indian Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Yellow, Raw Sienna, Cadmium Red, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber, Viridian, Paynes Grey• Taklon Bristle Brushes rounded 05, 1, 2, 4, No 12 and No 18 Flat, 5/0 and No 2 Rigger and No 2 Fan Brushes• Liquin• Spray Matt Lacquer When travelling with my wife through the Northern Territory we were lucky enough to visit Katherine Gorge. I took a photo of this scene of kayaks and canoes moored in the gorge, showing the contrast of nature and man-made, thinking one day it may make a great painting. After becoming more confident with oils I decided to take up the challenge and give it…

I am so grateful to have discovered my artistic ability at an early age. When I was 12 years old, I won an award in the Rockdale Council art exhibition, in NSW. That gave me all the encouragement I needed to embrace all things artistic throughout my life, starting with doodling headings for primary school books to drawing for teachers’ textbooks in high school. I inherited my creativity from my paternal grandmother and it has shaped my destiny. At a time when career and business has come to an end, reinventing myself through my artistic endeavours continues to be an exciting challenge and so rewarding. After leaving school early, my mother insisted on a tertiary qualification. She enrolled me in a TAFE “Showcard & Ticketwriting” course. I funded the three-year…