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  • Artist's Palette2 min read
    Damien
    My subject is a fellow called Damien. I took a few photographs of him on my mobile phone under fluorescent lights. The quality is not great, and the angle I used to shoot the photographs is kind of awkward and distorted. However the image offered a c
    Artist's Palette2 min read
    A Powerful Image
    • Oil pastels• Hogs hair paint brush• Rag cloth• Fixative Using mid tone paper, put light and dark lines indicating flow of the painting and direction of light. Block in as much local colour as possible. This tells me if the balance is working. The c
    Artist's Palette6 min read
    A Sense of Purpose
    My full-time occupation is Principal for a behaviour school in Sydney’s western suburbs. My home is at Lawson in the Blue Mountains. I completed an Art Certificate course at Meadowbank TAFE in 1987 and then went on to what was then known as City Art
    Artist's Palette3 min read
    The Fish Pond
    • Sketch paper• Canvas board (40cm x 60cm• “Ateliar” Artists Acrylics (Olive Green/Cobalt Turquoise (light hue)/Titanium White/Orange Red• “Artisan” Water Mixable Oil Colours (Cadmium Yellow medium/Cadmium Yellow Deep Hue/Phtialo Green (blue shade)•
    Artist's Palette7 min read
    I Followed the Sun
    Born in Yorkshire 1943, I displayed some artistic talent throughout my schooling and my teachers suggested I might think about art school. But I wanted to follow the sun and after seeing the film ‘A Town Like Alice’, decided that would be a good star
    Artist's Palette2 min read
    Artist's Palette
    ARTIST’S PALETTE magazine seeks to showcase the works of talented Australians producing art at a whole range of skill levels, whether they are accomplished creative people with a long history of achievements or beginners (of all ages) striving to bui
    Artist's Palette2 min read
    Nature in Motion
    • Primed canvas• Artists’ acrylic paints: Atelier Permanent Green Light; Atelier Cool Blue; Atelier Cadmium Yellow Light; Atelier Light Red Ochre; A2 Titanium White; Jo Sonja’s Phthalo Green; Jo Sonja’s Carbon Black; Jo Sonja’s Cadmium Scarlet.• Numb
    Artist's Palette3 min read
    Yourletters
    For Simon and team I have recently returned from the Jabiru Safari Lodge in Mareeba Far North Queensland where I had been working on a mural in a bird hide situated on one of the lagoons. The hide was built on stilts and looks like a mini watch tower
    Artist's Palette5 min read
    My Journey So Far…
    In my early 20s my mother used to sell jams at the local Cannon Hill flea market. I would give her a hand every Sunday, and to make it more interesting for me, I would paint native flora and fauna on t-shirts. I used to get about $10 a shirt, which w
    Artist's Palette4 min read
    Surprised and Delighted
    My mother and father both painted when I was a child. Mum was a commercial and hobby artist; Dad painted with oils and was highly influenced by Dali. So from a very early age I was exposed to art and artistic pursuits . . . as well as being encourage
    Artist's Palette5 min read
    Traditional Landscape and Still Life Artist
    With a garden full of blossoming roses, camellias and azaleas, South Australian artist John McCartin never needs to look for inspiration to paint. Red brown chooks and white ducks fossick free range in nearby farmyards. Around the corner are country
    Artist's Palette2 min read
    Back To The Future
    The Queensland Wildlife Artists Society recently presented the Faber-Castell 250th Anniversary exhibition at the Richard Randall Studio Gallery, Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens in Toowong, Brisbane. Count Andreas and Countess Virginia von Faber-Castell a
    Artist's Palette3 min read
    Onkaparinga Morning
    • Brushes – I always use a large flat brush for large areas particularly at the block in stage. I use smaller ones as required. Select the right size and type of brush for what it is you are painting. Filberts are good for general brushwork and for s
    Artist's Palette4 min read
    Duffy’s Farm
    There is nowhere to hide when you draw, visual accuracy especially when drawing architecture or the built environment with just a pencil and sketchbook is essential, for the most part the natural flow of building along a busy high street or an isolat
    Artist's Palette2 min read
    Woodland’s Gallery
    ARTIST’S PALETTE magazine seeks to showcase the works of talented Australians producing art at a whole range of skill levels, whether they are accomplished creative people with a long history of achievements or beginners (of all ages) striving to bui
    Artist's Palette5 min readVisual Arts
    An Unconventional Artist
    I was born in 1981 and raised in suburbia on Long Island, New York. My Mom painted nearly every week while watching ‘The Joy of Painting’ with Bob Ross, and my Dad was a draftsman and mechanical engineer. I must have absorbed or inherited some intere
    Artist's Palette3 min read
    No Rules!
    I was born in the UK in 1938. My best subjects at school were art and English, and after leaving school at 15 years of age, I entered as an apprentice into the fledging printing and packaging industry. As a family we came to Australia in 1986, where
    Artist's Palette2 min read
    Tanija
    • Pre-stretched canvas – coated and ready to go 45cm x 35cm• Light gauge pencil - for sketching• Set of acrylic paints - just basics - black, white, yellow, red, orange and brown• Something to mix paint on/in• An easel – if you like. Can be done on a
    Artist's Palette3 min read
    Art and Me
    Born in 1962 in Zagreb in Croatia, I immigrated to Australia with parents and sister in 1969 at the age of seven. My father was also an artist of sorts, albeit his art was a trade – painter and decorator. I always had an interest in drawing and as a
    Artist's Palette5 min read
    Snowy
    I had the pleasure of getting to know Greg and Tania and their “son” Snowy on a recent endeavor to Bourke, NSW. As thanks for their kind hospitality I wanted to surprise them with a portrait of Snowy from a photo I took of him while we were on an exc
    Artist's Palette18 min read
    Easels
    Choosing the right easel is an integral part of the painting process. The importance of having the correct easel is often overlooked but having a firm and steady easel can be as important to the finished painting as choosing the correct paint, canvas
    Artist's Palette1 min readVisual Arts
    Blue Quietude
    Initial drawing of ‘still life’ setup – papered box, metal cup and glass vase with flowers. Background and base colours painted in, leaving objects free of paint. Work done to background such as creating a tiled effect and brown base worked on in pai
    Artist's Palette3 min read
    I Love Drawing
    Born in Southern England, my love of drawing really began in my late teens. I had left school at 15 years of age to start an apprenticeship as a carpenter and joiner, and remember while attending technical college drawing classes, which were a part o
    Artist's Palette5 min read
    Ancient Roman Art – More Than Just Imitation!
    The Roman era is broken into two main time periods, the first being the Republican era from 753BC to 27BC; the second period the well-known Roman Empire from 27BC to AD 476. The Romans made many inventions and innovations from this time, from new bui
    Artist's Palette7 min read
    The Boy, The Fish And The Driftwood
    • Primed canvas 66cm x 61cm• Artists Acrylics: Titanium White, Warm White, Ultramarine Blue, Pthalo Blue, Cerulean Blue, Turquoise, Ivory Black, Yellow Ochre.• Oil Pastels: Yellow Ochre, White, Dk Brown, Mid Brown, Red/Brown.• Chinagraph Pencils: Bla
    Artist's Palette4 min readVisual Arts
    Colour Is Everything To Me
    When I was a child I drew pictures constantly on any piece of blank white paper I could find. I’d open out greeting cards for the big expanse of clear drawing space. My sister would give me the double page of white paper from her stockings pack! I fi
    Artist's Palette3 min readVisual Arts
    My Story
    I suppose I have always had an interest in art. I was forever getting into trouble at school for drawing the wrong sort of things. I found I had an ability to copy a picture and consequently any loose bit of paper would be adorned with sketches. I wa
    Artist's Palette5 min readVisual Arts
    Making Marks with Mark
    Lets set ourselves up so that the process of moving paint around is as easy as possible. We’ve touched on looking at setting ourselves up so that we can stay in “the zone”. We are going to stay in that theme, but we are going to look at it in greater
    Artist's Palette5 min read
    Drawn into Art
    Kevin Rogers was born in Brisbane in the late 1950s, and was raised at Southport, Queensland from the age of five. Kevin’s passion for art began when he was about 13 years of age, when he was given a ‘How to Draw Woody Woodpecker’ book by the famous
    Artist's Palette5 min read
    Riding Out For The Day
    • 30 x 60cm stretched quality canvas• 2B pencil• Art Spectrum series 1000-F flat bristle brushes (Sizes 6 and 10)• Art Basics Taklon flat bristle brushes (Sizes ½, 3/8, 1/4 , 3/16 & 1/16)• Atelier Interactive Acrylics: Titanium White, Yellow Ochre, N

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