Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 18 i Artists Drawing and Inspiration

MATERIALS • Staedler Mars Lumograph HB, 2B & 4B• Uni Pins Black fine line pens in 0.2, 0.3, 0.5 & 0.8• Black Faber Castell Polychromos• White Prismacolour Pencil• Prismacolour Colourless blender• Canson 110gsm paper• Reference photo (optional) This type of drawing is what I believe to be known as ZIA (Zentangle Inspired Art). True Zentangles are miniature (about 3.5-inch/89mm) square paper tiles. The many patterns, known as tangles, are black and white abstract art. This art form is believed to be mediative and relaxing as you become engrossed in each pattern. Which is why, after returning to art after my accident, it was a good place for me to relax and ease my way back into drawing. I combine graphite backgrounds and my tangles form animals, which is why it is Zentangle Inspired Art. STEP ONE I…

My name is Steven Gooch and I live in Perth. I have been drawing since I was 12, and I’m always exploring different techniques to improve my drawings. I guess my inspiration comes from other talented artist, and always learning from them. Depending on my mood as to what inspires me, I do like to do nature in all forms, especially the African Cheetah. I do my research before I start a project, noticing any details about the subject. I like using HB-2 up to HB-6 pencils, and sometimes just a little charcoal. I am always adding and subtracting, deciding as I go along. I like to challenge myself to see how far I can go as a future artist. I enjoy drawing for relaxation. Maybe one day I would…

MATERIALS • 140lb Fabriano Hot Press watercolour paper• H Graphite Pencil• Stylus with a small head and slightly larger head• Dr Ph Martin’s Bleed Proof White Faber and Castel Polychromo coloured pencils: • Black• Burnt Ochre• Burnt Sienna• Cream• Dark Indigo• Dark Pthalo Blue• Earth Green Yellowish• Indian Red• Ivory• Light Cobalt Turquoise• Light Flesh• Light Green• Light Ultramarine• Mauve• Middle Cadmium Red• Naples Ochre• Olive Green Yellowish• Pine Green• Raw Umber• Walnut Brown• Warm Grey II• Warm Grey V Derwent coloured pencil • Turquoise Green STEP ONE Using 140lb Fabriano Hot Press Watercolour paper and an H Graphite Pencil I made a faint drawing of the bird using a grid so that I got the proportions correct. STEP TWO I will be leaving the background blank, putting the emphasis on the branches and the bird. Starting with the branches behind the kookaburra and using curved strokes, I applied Dark Indigo for the undersides, with Warm Grey…

MATERIALS • Art Spectrum ColourFix paper – Black.• A mixture of pastel pencils and pastel sticks.• Sanding paper.• Kneadable eraser.• Sharpener.• Workable fixative. STEP ONE Because I love Art Spectrum ColourFix paper, I chose black as the background colour. In using black I hoped to highlight Woofa’s distinguished hair and beard. For this portrait I transferred the image (rather than hand-drawing it). I feel the importance of getting the features correct can make or break a portrait. I can hand-draw portraits, using a measurement method, but it takes a very long time and basically produces the same result. I like to have images of the subject around me as I draw, hoping to capture the personality. STEP TWO I examined the reference photographs and chose my colours. I started with the dark colours in the face…

I was born in Melbourne, Victoria and currently live there with my amazing husband and two small children. For as long as I can remember, I have always loved drawing, painting and creating. I was always happiest in my own little world with a pencil in my hand and nothing but the image I was trying to create in my mind. It was my escape and my talent, and I loved it. When I was young I would mostly draw animals, in particular, horses. I would draw or paint them over and over in many different styles. I had no real knowledge of the different mediums or papers available, and for which style of art they were best used. I drew and painted on anything I could get my hands…

History of graphite pencils Graphite is one of the physical forms in which the element carbon is found. The decay of great forests yielded, under sedimentary pressure, the coal deposits common throughout the world. Not so common are the graphite seams formed by more extremes of pressures. The first graphite ever discovered was found in the Seathwaite Valley on the side of the mountain Seathwaite Fell in Borrowdale, near Keswick, England, in about 1500. The popular story is that, following a very violent storm, the shepherds went out in the morning to see their sheep on the mountain side and found a number of trees had been blown down, tearing away the subsoil as they fell and leaving exposed to view large masses of black material. Pieces were dug out…

I spent most of my childhood and teenage years in Orange, in central western New South Wales – although I was born in nearby Wellington. My family and I recently moved to the beautiful banks of the Manning River on an old dairy farm, near the semi-coastal town of Taree on the New South Wales mid north coast. For as long as I can remember I have loved all aspects of art – especially drawing and painting. I would draw on anything I could find. I would spend hours in the stationery sections of shops just pondering what each product did and how I could use it. In senior high school, I took art for a major subject. Unfortunately, half of my marks were based on history – which I…

Ian Reardon first became interested in art through his grandfather who worked in pencil and watercolours and also painted window-front signs for shops in Grafton. Ian took art as a subject at the Southport school on Queensland’s Gold Coast when he was 12 years old. Art was always his favourite subject. During his school years, his grandfather entered two of Ian’s works in the Jacaranda Art Exhibition. He was delighted and encouraged to receive a first prize in the Under 14 section for a watercolour, and a ‘highly commended’ in the Open section for a pastel picture. “I left school at 16 years of age to work on the family farm,” Ian relates. “I am still there today; and now run the property with my son Dan. Those early years,…