Australian How To Paint

Michael Hodgkins grew up with an exhibiting professional landscape artist, George Hodgkins, as his father. George took every opportunity he could to travel Australia in order to gather reference material and subjects for painting. He spent a lot of t

• Gessoed Canvas 36cm x 24cm • Winsor & Newton Artists’ OilColour: – Winsor Red– Burnt Umber* • Art Spectrum Artists’ Oil Colour: – Permanent Mauve– Cadmium Yellow Light– Lemon Yellow*– Burnt Sienna*– Zinc White– Titanium White • Langridge Underpaint

I am an Australian by birth and I have lived at Castlereagh near Sydney for 38 years where my studio is situated. I travel all over the Hawkesbury region of New South Wales (and beyond) to paint en plein air. I have attended six Bathurst workshops, a

Born in Dubbo NSW in 1981 and raised around the Mudgee/ Gulgong area of NSW, I have a deep appreciation and love for nature, the landscape and painting. From an early age I had always drawn in pencil and was always amazed and inspired by the natural

You can first start by doing a light cobalt blue wash over the canvas. In this instance I haven’t used the wash. Secondly start by constructing a grid which will help you accurately draw the landscape scene. Try to minimise the grid as much as possib

• Full sheet of Coloured Pastel Paper with a rough surface. • Good quality mixture of Artists’ Soft Pastels. I printed out a photograph which I took of a bushy track in the Flinders Ranges; and I chose a dusty pink for the background paper. Using a b

Glenn Barnett of Port Lincoln in South Australia is a Member of Mouth & Foot Painting Artists Pty Ltd. He delights in painting beautiful landscapes with brushes held in his mouth. Like many artists, Glenn has developed his skills over the years and e

Painting with a brush held in the mouth, I work in sections. I begin with the sky, as I prefer to work from the sky to the foreground. I usually do not do preliminary sketches. My normal method is to complete a base and/or a complete section in one s

Natalie Barlow was born in Geelong, Victoria. After finishing school, she studied Commercial Art at the Melbourne College of Decoration, and in 1987 attained a TAFE certificate in Promotional Display and Advertising. Since then she has worked as a gr

Lightly draw out with a HB pencil the outline of the gumtree, horizon line and the mountains. Mix Cobalt Blue and Titanium White and paint the top of the sky. Then mix Light Red and Titanium White and paint the lower part of the sky. Mix a darker ver

Some people know from a very young age that they are destined to be an artist. For me, although I recall having an artwork framed and hanging on the wall in primary school, there was nothing to predict the course my life would take. After finishing s

Dorothy-Rae Sullivan’s career as a painter began only a decade ago … but it is already blossoming. She has completed numerous successful works and developed a recognisable style which would be the envy of many developing artists. This lady derives he

I enjoy the arid interior of Australia, which I have visited, so selecting my subject was easy … as the Kimberley and Pilbara are very special to me because of the richness of the colours. This painting is of part of the Old Anthill Road at Nullagini