Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 40 i Artists Drawing and Inspiration

Balu is a piece I was asked to do by a friend in Germany and was completed at a size of 14 x 11 inches. My friend sent me many photos via email, and I picked the one I thought was best, showing some personality and capturing the intensity of his eyes. Once the drawing was complete, I wrapped it up and posted it to Germany. It was a surprise for my friend, as she did not know that I had finished or which photo I had chosen. I printed the photo in black and white, and always had it next to me to refer to while I was drawing. I was always mindful to keep a blank, clean piece of paper under my right hand, trying to work from…

• Eraser • 220gsm paper or thicker • F pencil • Brushes – No 2 and No. 4 Taklon brush • Ink tips - 0.03 and a 0.1 waterproof and fade proof • Watercolour pencils (Derwent, Faber Castell)– Colours • Light Pthalo Green • Mineral Green • Black • Deep Cadmium • Brown Ochre • Olive Green • Gunmetal Grey • Terracotta • Copper Beech • Chrome Oxide Green Fiery • Grass Green • White • Cobalt Turquoise • Lemon Cadmium • Blue Grey • Pink • Orange Chrome • Red…

• Draw a subject matter that interests you and that you enjoy. • Always keep a clean piece of paper under your drawing hand to prevent smudging and oil from your skin transferring to the artwork. • Keep your pencils as fine and as sharp as possible to achieve finer detail. • Work from left to right (or right to left if you are left handed) as much as possible to try to avoid smudging your work. • Don’t rush; take the time you need to achieve the results you want. • Put a drawing away and come back to it a day or so later with a fresh mind and eyes if you get stuck and don’t know where to go next. • Never give up and always try…

Born in 1990 and raised predominantly on a farm in the New South Wales countryside, and now residing in Tasmania, Meaghan’s family raised an extensive variety of animals, and occasionally raised and rehabilitated sick and injured wildlife. This inherent relationship and connection to animals developed a deep love and admiration for them, inspiring Meaghan to explore many animal drawings as a child and through to adulthood. During Meaghan s years on she spent many weekends exploring the countryside by horseback with her mother, witnessing many aspects of nature. Memories and experiences from this farm inspire many of Meaghan’s animal portraits. The Rainbow Lorikeets that would squeeze through the chicken wire on the bird aviary and steal the food within have been a great influence for her, inspiring several Rainbow Lorikeet…

• Try to draw every day, this will keep your eye accustomed to the negative spaces and the accuracy of the finished drawing. • When painting with pastel, I have found it best it best to start at the top left-hand corner and work outwards to the right and down. This means that the pastel dust doesn’t fall on completed work. Also I turn the painting around when working on the sides for the same reason. • Cover paintings being worked on with Glassein paper to prevent dust from settling on the surface. • Always choose a subject to paint that speaks to the heart. • A good clear reference photo with the most accurate colour matching you can get is essential for studio painting. • Good lighting is a…

Eating fish and chips on the beach was the best way to gather resource photos for this painting. Seagulls appear from seemingly nowhere once the strong whiff of this traditional beach picnic is in the air. I took a lot of photographs of seagulls then made sketches to familiarise myself with the “seagullness” of the bird. The idea for this painting was the result of playing around with one image of a seagull which has starred in a number of my works. I like the idea of change it, change it again then do the unexpected. Explore, experiment and enjoy, I say! STEP ONE I chose a rough paper to work on because I want to utilise the textural effects of scrumbling onto a rough surface with the pastels. After…

STEP ONE Source material and initial compositional sketch The first step entails working out the content of the image, materials, composition and the source imagery that inspires you. For example if you intend to create a realistic portrait of a dog you either need a dog or a photo of a dog to build that portrait from, unless of course you have a photographic memory. Source imagery can range from magazines, books, your own photos, the Internet and other illustrations or artworks. This particular drawing is influenced by Peter Trusler, who created the illustrations for a bird book my mum has, Birds of Australian Gardens. It is important to have good source imagery. I often rely on my own photos of branches and animals and yet at times am influenced…

I was born in Melbourne in 1945 and I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t willing to spend time with a pencil my . I a drawing competition and won a place to further my drawing skills. At the time I was unable to take this up but kept up with drawing and my love of the craft of artwork has been a source of complete escape for me. I left high school to do a commercial administration course at a technical school. This school had a large art department and I spent all of my free time watching the class through a window. The artwork that was produced in the classes fascinated me and so I continued to draw when I could. Then I started work, got married,…

For as long as I can remember no surface has been safe from my creative endeavours: walls, furniture, tiles, fences all fell victim to my artistic fervour. Not that I limited myself to two dimensional masterpieces, whether it be clay from a nearby culvert or cutting down old clothing for dress-ups, I could always be found in some quiet corner working on my latest brainstorm – oblivious to the outside world. I sometimes think that it was in sheer desperation that my mother made my first visual diaries out of sheets of butcher paper sewn into pages. My most memorable birthday present was a set of water colours; scarlet lake and Indian yellow the prized colours, gone before all others. At school Art was the only important subject to my…