Issue 10 Volume 2

Artist's Back to Basics

Step by step guide to art

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Mitta Mitta River, Tallangatta
I was fly fishing on the Mitta Mitta River, carrying my camera with me as always – hoping to catch a trophy fish. Along the bank, a gum tree caught my eye. The tree had old bark and the river was low … I could fix the water level back in the studio.
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Artists’ Easels
S&S Wholesale stocks a wide variety of easels for everyone from the beginner, student and hobbyist right through to the professional artist. There are many types of easels for different applications … painting, pastel work, indoor or outdoor use. Eas
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Attuned to Open Spaces
Edward Spessot was born in 1937, at Gradisca in Northern Italy. Gradisca is a small town not far from Venice. In 1950, he left Italy with his family – to settle in the Sydney suburb of Pymble. He completed his schooling in Australia and found his fir
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The Beginning And The End”
If you were to think about the entire process of drawing a freehand work in graphite from a blank piece of paper to a finished signed original as 100%, the first five percent and the last five percent in some ways can be seen as by far the most cruci
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The A-Z Of Pen and Wash Sketching
What is pen and wash sketching? The initial sketch is done with black waterproof pen and watercolour is added. A sketch is a quick and spontaneous response to a subject or place. Drawing is a detailed and exact representation. Access as much informat
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Materials
• 100cm x 70cm sheet of grey colorfix paper • Conte sticks • Pastels - I used Artist Spectrum soft pastels for most of my upper layers, and used a white Schminke’s pastel at the very end for the white highlights. • Sheet of A1 paper for making some t
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Paint What Inspires You
May 2012 will mark the sixth anniversary of buying my first art canvas, when I deciding to try my hand at painting. Much to my surprise and the surprise of others, on that first canvas appeared a beautiful portrait of my dad, his brother and a green
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Brush Strokes
I seem to make a habit of challenging myself more than is sensible (often in retrospect). Last issue I threatened to write this article about making a painting using everything but my beloved chisels. Since then, I’ve managed to break my finger quite
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Belief
Everybody believes in stuff. Everybody has beliefs. They are funny things. Sort of like personal truths. Your passion and enthusiasm to create art is always by necessity underwritten by your belief system. You wouldn’t put pencil to paper if you didn
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Drawn To The West
Subject: Angel Furnishers – Swan Valley Western Australia Medium: Rotring (rapidograph) 0.25 Technical pens There have been many artists over the years who have worked primarily in pen and ink as a means for illustrating their work, and many exampl
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Cold One Waiting
This painting was inspired by a photograph of a country pub in a little town called Wooroolin, which is situated only a short drive from my home town of Kingaroy, Queensland. I called on some reference photos to set a scene in the 1970s, and the colo
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Many Hands Art Centre
Ngurratjuta Iltja Ntjarra: Many Hands Art Centre is proudly Aboriginal owned and operated and is situated in the township of Alice Springs. This art centre has been established to provide a place for Arunda artists to come together to paint, share an
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Thoughts of Still Life
But ‘still life’ has broadened its subject base in recent years. Artists have grown braver with compositions, to the point that any inanimate object has become fair game. Speaking of game, Kate Bergin’s quirky pictures of taxidermied fowls and foxes
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Come on in - The Water’s Fine!
Watercolour is not scary. Watercolour is wonderful. Don’t be put off by the stigma attached to this incredible medium. When one decides to purchase their first watercolour kit, they are entering a world of unexpected surprises. Water has a tendency t
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Interviews
Greetings fellow artists! I chose to interview a specific range of artist; those who lived for their art, and/or earned a living from their art. The people I interviewed ranged from gallery curators to self taught “street artists”. Those whom I could

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