Issue 16

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Art for everyone

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The Vibe
Presented as part of the Perth International Arts Festival (PIAF), Plain Speak launches a new annual series at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Everyone has a history, presenting compelling personal stories told through art. Exclusive to PIAF, t
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Earth Art
“Landscape photography is freedom for me. I am never more invigorated or at peace as I am capturing nature. It’s my therapy, addiction and all-consuming passion. I love capturing nature’s beauty and creating an image that brings out different emotion
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No Rules Or Limits
Like most people reading this, I guess I can start with the age old cliché that I remember drawing and painting and being pulled towards being creative from as early as I can remember. Growing up in a tiny village in Cornwall, United Kingdom, and hav
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My Life is Filled With Art
I have always loved to draw, and have done so since early childhood. My Dad sketched, and I know that his interest and praise of my early attempts made me even more determined to practice. At seven years of age I won First Prize for my flower drawing
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Wet’n’Dry
• 1 x sheet white Clairefontaine Pastelmat® (to fit 12 x 16” portrait) • Faber Castell Albrecht Durer Watercolour Pencils: – Black – White – Caput Mortuum – Dark Sepia – Payne’s Grey – Burnt Ochre – Dark Indigo – Cool Grey I – Cool Grey II – Prussian
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Italian Scenery on a Chinese Blog
I was born in China. Like many people, I followed the normal path – I went to a good university, and found a decent job. Then I went overseas, graduated with a top MBA degree, and worked a few years in Europe. While I was living in Italy, some beauti
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Life In The High Country
My plan is to create a story … an interaction between the horse, the man, the cattle, the dog, and the environment. The sunlight and textures will be important elements, and the lost and found edges will give the overall unity to the painting. I am f
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That Beautiful Spring Evening
• Winsor & Newton oil paints: – White – Alizarin Crimson – Cadmium Yellow – Raw Sienna – Burnt Sienna – Viridian – Olive Green – Cobalt Blue – Ultramarine Blue – Burnt Umber I do a very simple, loose drawing on blank canvas, which generally takes le
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Courtship and Display
By Margaret Hodgson OAM Photography by Margaret Hodgson OAM A large percentage of mammals and marsupials will present themselves with violence, where ownership and territorial boundaries are put down. Dominant males will exhaust themselves to meet al
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On The Face Of It
Nestled alongside Lake Burley Griffin in its stunning, purpose-built home, Australia’s National Portrait Gallery is the youngest of our national cultural institutions, with its dedicated building opened by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in December 2008.
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Portrait of My Love
Drawing became a passion in my schooldays. Back then, I drew with a ballpoint pen, in a big, red, fabric A3 hard covered book with plain pages. It was given to me by an uncle in the printing industry. This book, I think, had more pages than ‘The Holy
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Keeping A Record Of Your Art
BY PATRICK HEDGES Marketing is a whole article in itself, but as a general rule, I split my time three ways. The first is research. This is the fun part. As a wildlife artist this means going to the wildlife. I’ve written many articles on travel so I
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Pencil Portraits
I start with the classic oval and cross through the centre. I draw the eyes and do a light rough detail of the whole face; usually it gets bigger than the oval, and years back it frustratingly sometimes outgrew the paper! But I taught myself the dis
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From The Drawing Board
Hi Brett, I used to cover the entire drawing in progress with a piece of paper with just a window cut out to work through but since making the jump to drawing completely freehand I find it no longer possible as I need to see the whole drawing. How do
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Matisse/Diebenkorn
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announces the first major exhibition to explore the profound inspiration California artist Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) discovered in the work of French modernist Henri Matisse (1869–1954). Co-organis
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Wynford Dewhurst: Manchester’s Monet
The first retrospective of the English impressionist painter and art theorist Wynford Dewhurst since his death in 1941. A controversial figure on the Anglo-French art scene at the turn of the 20th century, Wynford Dewhurst is most famous for his 1908

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