Last weekend the Hikuai Art Group had a two day workshop with Lois Perry, very good. She had to look after a range of painters from newbies to more experienced. Day One we concentrated on colour and painting stripes and making them sing with layers. Day Two, colour again but using complementary colours to mix [...]
Archive for August, 2008
A Workshop with Lois Perry
Posted in art on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Elements of Color
Posted in art theory, painting, tagged color theory, Johannes Itten, The Art of Color, The Elements of Color on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I looked for this book or it its parent when I was recently in England, at Foyles. But the only one I saw was it’s ‘parent’ The Art of Color, but too expensive for what was left on my credit card.
A foray into a local secondhand book shop when I came home and I found [...]
Kathryn Stevens, Viewfinder
Posted in art, tagged Bath Street Gallery, Kathryn Stevens, oil painting, painitng, Viewfinder on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On Tuesday 5th I went to an opening for Kathryn Stevens at the Bath Street Gallery – Kathryn is one of my tutors at ArtStation this year. I am blown away by Kathryn’s work, I’m not sure I can put it into words. I’ve included one of the works here for you to see. It [...]
Career Path Workshop
Posted in art, artist, tagged Fleur Sandbrook, John Nicol, Kirsten Dryburgh, Laxmi Jhunjhnuwala, Layne Waerea, Leonard Cohen, melanie Richards, Peter Miller, Richard Mathieson, Richard Wells on August 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A great workshop on Sunday at ArtStation. We listened to 7 artists speak about their career, their art education, their art – all inspiring stuff. Artists such as Laxmi Jhunjhnuwala, Peter Miller, Melanie Richards, Richard Mathieson, Richard Wells, Layne Waerea, Fleur Sandbrook, John Nicol and Kirsten Dryburgh.
And quite a bit about tertiary courses, but I [...]
A Summer Trip to England
Posted in art, tagged Art as Technique, berwick, drawing, East Anglia, England, painting, Shklovsky on August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Back again from a quick trip to England, and this time in the summer. The resulting paintings should be very different. Travelling by country lane to almost everywhere we wanted to travel, visiting family and friends, and also a 5 day tiki tour around East Anglia. Visited seaside resorts, tacky and worn. Saw sleepy forgotten [...]
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