Australian How To Paint

Hazel started painting in oils when she was eleven years old and did her first paid commission at age 16. It was, of course, an animal painting! Completely self-taught, Hazel is a multi-award winning wildlife artist, and her atmospheric paintings hav

After transferring my sketch of Sandy onto the canvas, I began blocking in the background. As the background will be shrouded in mist, I wasn’t concerned about putting in any great detail. With the background completed, I dry brushed in the mist usin

I’ve lived most of my life in the small mining town, of Charters Towers, Queensland, where, as a child, I often prospected for gold and fished on the coast with my family. My love of art came early; often I watched my mother’s craft group dabble for

Perseverance. My key word. If I can instil one word in anyone wanting to pursue art, it is to persevere. It doesn’t always work, it doesn’t always go your way, but keep at it, as good things can happen if you want them badly enough to work hard, and

I was born in Russia and as a child I always spent my spare time painting and drawing. At that time in the former Soviet Union, art materials were quite expensive and hard to find. But thanks to my mother I have always had good brushes and paints to

Nola Clark is best known to our readers as a devoted pastel artist with previous demonstrations having been published in issues 45 and 58 of Artist’s Palette. After 30 years at her Heathmont home in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs she has taken her paste

Pencil drawing in sketch book. Using carbon paper, I transferred the drawing onto cream coloured velour paper, then drew over the outlines with “willow charcoal” followed by a paper stump (lightly dragged over the lines) to set the charcoal and stop

As a small child, my earliest memories of art were: loving colouring-in books to colour in the drawings with pencils, although I wasn’t too keen on painting; my Grade 3 primary school teacher, Miss Toomey, putting one of my drawings on the wall in th

Firstly, choose a suitable image. Make a line drawing of it, use moderate pressure and transfer the line drawing onto the scratchboard using the white graphite paper and stylus or biro. Beginning with the long hair on the left ear, use the craft knif