Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 15 i Artists Drawing and Inspiration

MATERIALS • Paper: For this demonstration I used a sheet of Stone Henge torn in half. You can purchase it in a range of tones. I like soft, warm tones; they are easy to frame, easy to hang in homes and give the picture a sense of warmth. Other times and particularly for pen work I love Arches HP 300gsm watercolour paper. • Pencils: I use a combination of Rotring mechanical pencils in sizes .35, .5 and .7. They don’t go blunt like normal pencils and allow me to keep a consistency in my line work. I use H, HB, B, and 2B leads in these. I need a blend of hard and soft pencils to achieve my techniques and so I love General Kimberley and Derwent Graphic pencils. I…

Carol was born at Mt. Pleasant in the Adelaide Hills in 1951. She loved drawing and painting at school but it was not until 1979 that she began taking art classes. Having been a Veterinary Nurse prior to marrying, she loved painting animal portraits, especially cats, first of all using oils and later working in pastel and acrylics. She regularly exhibits in the cat exhibitions held by the Pepper Street Gallery, Magill, South Australia. These exhibitions are held about every two years during the Fringe Festival in February, and the last one was held in 2013. She inherited her artistic genes from her mother but didn’t put them into practice until after her two sons were born. She painted in oils for quite a few years then moved on to…

MATERIALS • B, 4B, 6B Faber Castell pencils• Rubber• Ruler• Tracing paper• Fixative• Transparency sheet• Blending stump• Arches 300gsm rough watercolour paper STEP ONE My first step is to always seek the reference photo or photos/images from which I will work. There are a few different sites on the internet that offer reference images for use, either for a fee or free. I also find it easier to have a plan for the whole work, otherwise I tend to find I get halfway through a drawing/ artwork and either do not know what to do, or the artwork doesn’t work. STEP TWO Preparation of the paper and reference photos. I use a grid to draw the outline to get the proper proportions, especially when enlarging images. I do a one centimetre grid on the reference photo – which…

SIDNEY NELMES I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but it is only in recent years since I have retired that I have had the opportunity to concentrate on improving my art skills and extend my interest in art to working with charcoal and pastels. Coming across Artists Palette Magazine at my local newsagent has been most beneficial in helping me and encouraging me to try new mediums KEN BONNER Ken lives in Noosa, Queensland at the moment but is due to leave these shores for Santé Fe in the USA to continue his painting and to extend his exhibitions. Ken has been very successful at international exhibitions - New York and most recently Hong Kong and this new venture is to further his art, yet again. LUISA GOMERSALL Hi!…

MATERIALS • Paints: Ultramarine Blue, Flinders Blue Violet X520, Bordeaux, White, Turquoise, Phthalo Blue, Schmincke White, A.S. Flinders BlueViolet, Unison Caput Mortuum, Gold Ochre, Yellow Ochre, Rembrandt Mars Violet, Schmincke Crimson Lake, Bright Purple STEP ONE Always get your horizon straight on the paper first, lightly sketch in using a Red or Purple Conte, it adds interest if some of it still shows through at the finish. STEP TWO I prefer to start at the top so as not to smudge what I have already worked on, and also if any pastel floats down, it doesn’t contaminate work already finished. The sky is a mix of Ultramarine Blue, Flinders Blue Violet X520, Bordeaux and White. Sometimes I smudge it in whilst wearing a latex glove. STEP THREE The sea should…

Professional artist Ann Russell began her career as a high school art teacher, before switching to commercial art for ten years. Some time after the birth of her children she found herself disenchanted with her work. A decision was made to return to the arena of fine art. “Some years ago, I took up painting seriously again,” Ann relates. “But I spent quite a long time trying to rid myself of the illustrative style I had developed as a commercial artist … a style which gallery managers found less than impressive.” Ann Russell believes that the commercial and fine art worlds are not easily compatible in philosophy, and ‘style’ became a huge issue for her. “There seemed to be a very definite right and wrong,” she says. “And mine was…

I began my working life as a professional photographer, photographing mainly weddings and portraits. I worked for a professional studio as well as for a lab which handled professional processing. Back then my real love was hand developing my own black and white pictures and medium format photography. As a natural part of this, I learned to control contrasts and tonal values while developing black and white images. Colour processing taught me how to see colour hues and balance them. When chasing that ultimate photo, looking for the light and knowing how to use it as well as composition became invaluable lessons that I still draw upon for my art today. I had worked successfully in my own professional photography business for 26 years until the time when I felt…

MATERIALS • Art Spectrum Colourfix Paper – Burgundy colour.• Variety of Soft Pastels: Winsor & Newton, Art Spectrum, Rembrandt and Schmincke.• Pastel Pencils – Black and White.• Pastel erasing tool.• Kneadable eraser.• Workable matt fixative. STEP ONE My aim was to create a hot, dusty sunset in Africa – based on a single photograph of an elephant from Dubbo zoo. Her flared ears and prominent right forefoot inspired the idea of a matriach protecting her family from strangers in her homeland. The paper was clipped to a piece of MDF board with at least three layers of plain paper underneath to provide a slight amount of ‘give’. I sketched my ideas onto a half-sheet of warm Burgundy paper with white pastel pencil. Sketches on tough Colourfix paper can easily be re-done if needed – using a…

Living on a farm on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales with my partner, I consider myself very blessed to have lots of subjects to paint right outside my front doorstep. We have an abundance of wildlife and birds, bush and mountains, with the Lansdowne River meandering its way through the property. Livestock on the farm consists of beef cattle, a few crossbred sheep and my Paint and Palomino horses – giving me a variety of animals to paint every day - inspiration on the hoof, so to speak. As I write this we are at the start of the calving and lambing season which means there will be many new babies to photograph for future works. I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t drawing – I’ve…

Art is always something that I have just done since I was a kid. I knew from primary school that it was something that I was definitely going to university to study and continue as my career. During high school it was the main subject that I actually cared about and as soon as I could in Year 12, I applied for a few different universities and chose to study at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba. After the first semester, life got in the way as can happen, and after having my eldest daughter and moving a few times, changing my life; art did not have a real strong presence in my life. I would do bits here and there, but they always ended unfinished and bad. After…

MATERIALS • Blue Grey Colourfix Paper.• Pastels: Phthalo Blue; Indianthrene Blue (Tint 3); French Ultramarine (Tint 3); Winsor Blue Red Shade (Tints 1 and 3); Cerulean Blue (Tints 1 and 3); Madder Lake Deep; Spectrum Red; Permanent Alizarin Crimson (Tint 5); Winsor Violet Dioxazine; Quinacridone Magenta; Vermillion (Tint 3); Scarlet Lake (Tint 3); Indian Red (Tints 2 and 4); Scarlet Mortuum (Tint 4); Quinacridone Violet (Tints 2, 3 and 5); Flinders Red Violet; Silver White.• Workable Matt Fixative.• Set of 24 Derwent Pastel Pencils. White Compressed Charcoal.• Compressed Paper Torchon for smudging in fine detail areas. For me, pastel painting is about colour and light. I like to use dashes of bright and unexpected colour to create the luminosity that pastels are renowned for. I tend to build layers - as many as 15 -…