Foliage, fabric and flowers

This term we did some observation exercises involving drapery  and foliage Drawing Drapery is an age old discipline involving well honed observation skill and i was pleased to see that many of you included that new skill into your compositions of foliage. Drawing the foliage was interesting too. Spatial considerations come into prominence with foliage […]

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Portrait workshop

      We started our portraits with a traced image and then the grisaille process As you can see from Amanda Deane’s lovely painting . A well resolved tonal image was then glazed with fine glazes of colour Greg Barbour AnneMartin         Joanne Hammond Jik White Margaret Relph Pam Bell Amarjit […]

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other artists work with foliage, flowers and drapery

Here are some examples of other artists using flowers foliage and fabric in their works….food for thought! Bonnard     Carl Maughan   David Keeling   David Milne   Emily Wolf   Euan Mcleod   Jackie Fahey     Jude Rae Mondrian  

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further thoughts for foliage

  Having chosen Foliage etc as our subject matter this term, I have been interested in how much more  I am noticing plants and foliage as i walk around Grey Lynn at the moment. Whether it is a skinny Cordyline up against a skinny villa or an amazing spotted Calathea which i found at the […]

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Term 2 : 2014 Foliage , flowers , fabric

In the next term we will get some good observation exercises in Foliage studies , flowers and  a drapery day squeezed in somewhere by request!   We havent really ever studied foliage and thanks to our resident plant person Jo Turner who brought in a cornucopia of interesting plants we now are inspired. With big […]

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work from term 1 2014

Angela Hutton           Amarjit       Annette Pearton     Bev Holdsworth     Cynthia Mitchell       David Thompson     Jane Liu Jo Turner         Margaret Neale     Pat Shepheard Judy Gillet     John Eaglen     Jik White     This […]

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TERM 1 2014 BRAVURA LANDSCAPE

TERM 1 this coming term we will be having a look at Toss Woolleston’s bravura brushstrokes. Bravura  focuses on the energy of the brushstroke itself  and this approach will give us  more practice with our “fresco brushes” that we used last term. Other artists who used Singer Sargent and Manet, Burchfield and Cezanne     […]

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term dates for 2014

Term 1: 11 february – 2 april Term 2: 13 may- 2 july Term 3: 5 august – 24 september Term 4: 21 october-10 december  

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Floral studies Term 4 2013

What a term this has been. I feel as if the exercises we did this term shifted everyone’s process and turned us into real painters. Firstly we drew for about three days.Painting flowers is similar to doing portrait work.Each flower  has its different energy and form and they are excellent for good observation exercises, getting […]

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