Innholdsfortegnelse for No 204 i Artist's Palette

I usually work very loosely, freely dragging paint over the canvas in a spontaneous intuitive manner. Genesis paints suit this style as I can add some paint and then set it by heating. Then I can drag new paint over the top of it without have to wait for it to dry. This ensures that you retain the excitement of fresh colour over colour without the risk of the paint turning to mud. I drag the paint using a colour shaper. This is partly because I am too lazy to clean my brushes so, but mainly because the shapers allow the paint to be scraped over the top of the underlying paint leaving patches of the colour below showing through. Successive layers of paint create complexity and interest in the…

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 three 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 had the good fortune to be born to an artistic mother who had been one of Australia’s early women potters, running a studio in Clarence Street, Sydney, where she employed 10 people. That came to an end with WW2 when she was obliged to contribute to the war effort. I was born towards the end of the war and we lived in what was quite an artist’s colony in Northwood, Sydney. Neighbours included John and Marie Santry, Roland Wakelin, Lloyd Rees, George Lawrence, William Pidgeon, and Lorraine Haines. My mother, Marguerite Moloney, joined these artists in a group known as the ‘Northwood Group” that Marie Santry had initiated. Marie also ran art workshops for local children and I remember painting at these and also running through various artists’ studios,…

Dreamtime legend narrates the story of Bauple, a Butchilla warrior, who fell while climbing a local mountain. He was saved when his pet lizard asked the wallabies to bring water and the cockatoos brought him nuts from the trees and sent a smoke signal to his tribe who came and rescued him. The mountain, the lizard and the trees were named after the warrior. STEP ONE – THE CONCEPT The main characters to the story were Bauple the warrior, the mountain, the pet lizard, the wallabies and the cockatoos. My immediate thought was the indigenous connection to land and in my mind’s eye I could see a warrior face in the rocky mountain escarpment. I developed a series of sketches and decided to create a series of six works to…

It’s autumn and the ornamental grape vines are turning the most beautiful shades of purple and red. I’ve picked some of these lovely leaves and I’m going to do a watercolour painting showing some of the colours. I will include a number of superb blue wrens who frequent the grape vines to seek out insects. I’ve chosen to do this subject in a formal manner and to keep it botanically correct. I will also use references to ensure accuracy in the rendering of the wrens. I’ve chosen a long narrow format for the painting as I feel it suits the long stems of the grape vine. Above the paper I have taped one of these stems. I’ve wrapped some wet tissue around the stem of the vine so the leaves…

My life has been anything but average; in fact it has been very special in so many ways. At the age of four my family left England and moved to a small mining town in East Africa where we lived for a year, then spent nine years travelling around South Africa. The sights and sounds of nature were everywhere. I fell under its spell and have been there ever since. From climbing mountains to exploring caves, discovering the oceans and rivers, trekking through bush and jungle or feeling the heat and cold of the desert I have been fortunate enough to experience all of these and more. The wildlife was amazing, so many shapes, sizes and colours. I experienced the privilege of cuddling a lion cub, riding on the back…

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STEP ONE I sketched in the initial figure with the tree and a rough guide of where the light parts of the clouds would be. In this initial stage the tree was in its natural form. After staring at it for a while I decided it needed more. I started adding random mechanical parts to the tree and a compass. The compass seemed to naturally mould around the branch and an accidental ode to Salvador Dali was born. Sometimes it’s good to let the work evolve and not be too bogged down by your initial plan. Of course this can backfire as well, but that’s just the nature of creating something. STEP TWO Using Flinders Blue Violet, Prussian Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt Blue and Titanium White I then block in…

After living in the Northern Territory for almost 30 years, Kelli Mac is revelling in the sight and sound of the massive eucalypt forests that you just don’t find in the territory. Being brought up in country Victoria, close to the Murray River and surrounding forests, Kelli developed a long-term respect and appreciation for the natural bushland. From a young age Kelli began drawing the forest trees and landscapes surrounding her country home. Now back on the east coast, Kelli has found a renewed passion for those riverland forests where the trees grow hundreds of feet tall. As Kelli puts it, “My work is not an environmental statement but, conversely, it’s a statement about the environment…and our relationship with our natural environment. Our need to spend time ‘smelling the roses’…

For the demonstration I have decided to do a painting with paint, knife and brush and the added challenge of just two colours, Titanium White and Paynes Grey. There are a number of combinations that you can use, choosing the right ones can give you really effective results. The majority of my paintings are from my imagination and what I visualise on the canvas after it has been primed. If you would like to try this technique yourself, give it a go. Choose a canvas that you are comfortable with and give it a coat of Titanium White using a larger brush. Don’t be too fussy how you apply it, just not too thick as the idea is to allow the brush to spread the paint creating high and low…