Artists Drawing and Inspiration Issue 14

In this issue of Drawing and inspiration, Paul Evans, our cover artists demonstrates the same techniques to create three amazing drawings. We have a selection of pen and ink, pencils, pastels and coloured pencil demonstrations for you this issue. We hope you enjoy the creativity and selection of artists we have brought together. Also this issue we have put together a buyer’s guide full of pencils and pastels for you to discover. There is a great range of products and there is always something new on the market for you to try. We hope you enjoy this issue of Drawing and Inspiration. We would love to see what our readers are doing so please send photos of your work to Drawing and Inspiration Magazine, PO Box 8035 Glenmore Park NSW…

Dear Editor, I would love to see some of my quirky, watercolour and ink art appear in Woodland’s Gallery, Artist’s Palette magazine. Enclosed are photographs of my paintings and a postcard which supplies a brief description of my background. Thank you for allowing developing artists to contribute to Woodland’s gallery. It is the first article I turn to in each edition of Artist’s Palette. C Jeanette Noblet Bongaree QLD 4507 Elena first worked as a visual art teacher after she graduated from Pedagogical University of Kazakhstan. She arrived in Australia in 1998 and after settling in she started painting again. She works in oils , mixed media and more recently color pencils . She especially enjoys painting animal portraits JACK TIYCE Aged 23, Jindabyne, NSW Tynan Salamore Hi My name…

Born in Brisbane I950, Paul attended the Brisbane College of Art and worked in the fashion industry for 10 years before becoming a full-time artist in 1980. l started drawing and painting from an early age, like most children, and the interest continued into my teen years. After l finished school l enrolled at the Brisbane College of Art and spent three years learning very little that would be of use to me in the years to come. With family responsibility and the need to make a living, until the age of 30 I worked in the daytime and spent my nights working on my art. Very little from that time has survived today, but l keep some pieces as a reminder of a need to improve. My biggest shock…

STEP 1 The first step in producing a good drawing is to start with a good drawing, working carefully to get proportions right and everything in the right place. Mistakes in the beginning usually lead to a drawing ending up in the bin. This has happened to me many times and while it may be disappointing l have learnt much from those disappointments and l continue to learn. If you choose to use this method and hope for a quick result, you have chosen the wrong method. For this demonstration l have chosen a pelican, a leaf with shadow, an orchid. STEP 2 Once l am certain that the drawing is correct, l start to apply ink and this is done in a dot process, one dot at a time…

I haven’t had any formal art training, but I did excel at art during high school, receiving multiple year level awards, and I also chose to do arts focused electives during my university studies. Attending life drawing classes, art sessions run by local community art groups, and painting with friends have been good motivators to keep creative activity a priority in my life. I have loved the arts since I was a young child. My mother was very creative and dabbled in many creative and artistic pursuits – painting (watercolour, acrylic, oils, abstract, realistic, using different materials, techniques and tools), drawing, tapestry, ceramics, textiles, photography, drama, singing, music – so I was surrounded by creativity and artistry and got to see art making in action all the time. Mum was…

MATERIALS • I used Mi Teintes TEX Pastel paper (this comes in a range of colours. I chose black. It is highly textured and as I was working on it I realised I would have actually preferred to use a standard Canson pastel paper with less texture for this piece)• I use a range of charcoals and soft and hard pastels that I have bought over time including Coates Willow Charcoal, Rowney Charcoal, Lefranc and Bourgeois soft pastels, Schmincke, and Conti crayons. Some are very soft and have rich colour. My Conti’s are my staple though. I’m not precious about my pastels and have broken all of them into much smaller pieces. I tend to mostly use them sideways to get a generous covering. Sometimes I like to blend and other times…