Issue 19

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Art for everyone

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Intercity Images: Gladstone Saiki Photographic Exchange, Combined Images
Intercity Images invites photographers of the Gladstone Region to capture the spirit of Central Queensland Annual favourite, Intercity Images: Gladstone Saiki Photographic Exchange, Combined Images will be open from Saturday, 19 August 2017, at the G
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Anne Zahalka: The Landscape Revisited
Curated by Rita Lazauskas, this exhibition brings together important works by Anne Zahalka, spanning over 30 years of arts practice. In the 1980s Zahalka began a series of works that were an early example of post-modernist practices where appropriate
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The Animals Have It
Having loved drawing ever since she could remember, Gayle Newcombe humbly recalls sitting in her room after school, copying anything that inspired her. “We moved around a lot when I was growing up, so art wasn’t always something I could do, but I tri
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Forgotten Faces
Portraits of people whose identities have been forgotten over the centuries are the centrepiece of an intriguing display at the National Gallery of Ireland. The paintings, all drawn from the permanent collection, date to the sixteenth and seventeenth
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From The Drawing Board
Hi Brett, I can never “see” the right shapes drawing freehand? I can get it close but then always come up against a point when nothing I change or add seems to make the drawing any better, it’s so maddening I can see it’s wrong but just can’t make it
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Vast: A Collection Of Prints And Drawings
Vast: A collection of Prints and Drawings is Robyn Mayo’s visual record of her travels through central Australia between 1996 and 2013 when she visited Arnhem Land and the Gulf Country, the central desert areas of Rainbow Valley, Chambers Pillar, The
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Red Dog
“Use very light pressure with the first layers of pastel so you will be able to get more layers and create more depth and brighter pieces.” Draw your dog onto either a plain piece of paper and transfer onto the pastel paper or draw straight onto your
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Earthy Abstracts
For a long time, Nicole Maguire had no idea what to paint or how to begin. There was an empty room in her first apartment, so she thought it could be turned into an art studio. It was not meant to be – a pad of paper and a pencil sat on a table in th
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A World of Colour
– Vincent van Gogh Malcolm Hamilton’s love of art and colour has been an important part of his life as far back as he can remember. At the age of ten and while living in Western Australia, Malcolm had the great fortune to have a teacher who saw his t
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Minimus Terrore
• Canvas • Derwent HB pencil • Small foam paint roller • Palette knife • Art Spectrum odourless solvent • Gum turpentine • Disposable gloves • Old cotton t-shirt • Art Spectrum oil paints: – Yellow Ochre – Burnt Umber – Zinc White – Ivory Black • Bru
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Summer Paddocks
I use a charcoal pencil to sketch in the outline for the hills and trees, which are to be the base for my landscape. With a small fan brush I give a light water wash to enhance the charcoal then I set it aside to let it dry. Using a medium fan brush
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Animal Behaviour
Photography by Margaret Hodgson OAMBy Margaret Hodgson OAM Animal behaviour is driven by instinct. This natural inclination gives them an aptitude for bonding, protecting and instructing their young in the way of survival and food gathering. This par
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Make Your Art Unique to You
BY PATRICK HEDGES I love art. I love seeing what other artists are doing, going to galleries and exhibitions, checking out websites, seeing their work on Facebook, YouTube and elsewhere. However, even an art lover like me can get bored. I get bored w
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My Italian Studio
BY CHRISTINE WEBB On June 25th 2000 we arrived, jet lagged and with a couple of suitcases, to start our life in Italy. Our family of four, Marius and our two boys, Julius 10 and Fabian six, were welcomed immediately. We had bought a house in the cent
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My Easel and Eye
The desire to create pictures has been with Lynda Robinson for as long as she can remember. As a child, she would while away many hours, sketching with a biro or pencil, or splashing around with a lovely watercolour paintbox that she received for Chr
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Bush Colours
• Assorted pastels, mainly Sennelier and Unison • Art Spectrum Colourfix paper – Burgundy I begin by lightly indicating the main elements of the scene, remembering that the main thing I want the viewer to notice is the area of light between the tree
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Drawn In Colour: Degas From The Burrell
This exhibition features a stunning group of 20 paintings, pastels and drawings by Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (1834–1917) from the Burrell Collection, Glasgow. The Burrell Collection holds one of the greatest collections of Degas’s works in the worl
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The Dutch in Paris 1789-1914
From 13 October until 7 January 2017, the Van Gogh Museum is devoting itself to ‘The Dutch in Paris 1789 - 1914. Van Spaendonck, Jongkind, Van Gogh, Van Dongen, Mondriaan.’ A major exhibition in which the work of the Dutch artists will be shown for t

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