The Kimberley Eucalypts

By Robyn Collier

MATERIALS

• 51 x 61cm good quality canvas board. Quality canvas is essential. As you do not want a board that is not well primed and sucks the life out of the paint – nor one that is too slippery.

• Art Basics 101 Flat Bristle in all sizes

– Eterna 579 (a cheap ‘hairy bristle but useful for some effects and softening edges)

– Monte Marte ‘Rake’ brush - great for grass

– Art Basics Bristle – round 1 & 2

– Eterna 582 Bristle round

– I also cut my own brushes with sharp scissors using old brushes I no longer use. These are great for a variety of uses where texture is required.

• Thin willow charcoal

• Colours

– Art Spectrum Australian Red Gold

– Art Spectrum Pilbara Red

– Art Spectrum Cadmium Yellow

– Art Spectrum Ultramarine Blue

– Art Spectrum Manganese Blue

– Art Spectrum Burnt