Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 44 i Artists Drawing and Inspiration

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…

• Always spend a lot of time getting your preliminary sketch right. It is much easier to fix anything at this stage. • Whenever possible, try to use your own reference material. I think you have so much more passion when you’re drawing from an image you have personally taken. It helps you to get a good feel and understanding of the subject, and also avoids any copyright issues. • Try not to compare your work to other artists, although I am guilty of this. Other artists are no better or worse. No one has it right or wrong. Art is subjective and artists all have different styles. If your drawing makes you happy creating it, then it’s just perfect. • Never stop learning from each piece you do, and…

MATERIALS • Schmincke pastels – Titanium Yellow 007 - O – Scarlet 041 - D – Scarlet 041 – H – Reddish Violet 056 - B – Leaf Green Deep 070 – B – Bohemian Green 083 – B – Bohemian Green 083 – H – Olive Green 1 085 - B • Art Spectrum pastels – Titanium White P500 – Warm White P501 – Spectrum Yellow P504 – Spectrum Yellow V504 – Crimson V512 – Crimson X512 – Bordeaux N513 – Bordeaux P513 – Bordeaux V513 – Permanent Rose T514 – Flinders Red Violet D517 – Flinders Blue Violet D520 – Flinders Blue Violet N520 – Flinders Blue Violet P520 – Flinders Blue Violet T520 – Flinders Blue Violet V520 – Australian Leaf Green Light P580 – Australian Leaf…

• Keep a flat brush handy, and regularly brush over your picture to avoid pencil dust being rubbed into your picture. I use a 4 ½ cm Hake brush but a cheap DIY painting brush would do the job too. • Once I have applied coloured pencil and need to rest my hand on it to reach other areas I place a piece of paper under my hand and am very careful not to drag that piece of paper as I move my hand. • Unless you have a specific colour in mind such a something akin to black, I find if I randomly apply one colour on top of the other there is a chance of it becoming ‘muddy’. Always test the mix before applying it, this way you…

• Draw every day if possible; even if only for 15 minutes. • Do demonstrations found in books, magazines (like this one), and DVDs. It is amazing what you will learn from these. • Drawing can be a lonely hobby – start a group where you all draw or paint together regularly and enjoy sharing your passion and ideas. • Continue to challenge yourself. Don’t assume you cannot do something. Just give it a go. If it doesn’t work, find out why and what to do about it. Then have another go until you’re happy with it. • Take your camera everywhere. Take hundreds of photographs … every now and then, one or two of them will be outstanding. • Learn to love your work.…

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…

• Always use barrier cream to protect your hands – pastels really dry out your skin. • Always use two towels or cloths when working with pastels. One dry for wiping excess pastel from your fingers when blending, and one damp cloth for cleaning your hands. • Place your pastels in a dish of rice to keep them clean as you work. • Break your new pastel into either half or thirds before using. This allows you to use the side of the pastel for broad strokes and it will also retain an edge at either end for fine lines. • I use the edge of my little finger and a light backwards and forwards motion to blend. I also lift my finger off the paper often; this helps to…

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. to work I on the family years farm,” Ian age relates. “I am still there today; and now run the property with my son Dan. Those early years, for me, cemented a great…

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…

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…

MATERIALS • 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…