Innehållsförteckning för Issue 3 från Creative Artist

We’re excited to bring you some fabulous workshops and profiles of inspirational artists, accompanied by marvellous photographs. There’s also plenty of clever photographic tips and hints, plus some valuable information about scratchboarding from Patrick Hedges. We show you some amazing artwork from international galleries, plus highlight exhibitions and shows from Australian galleries. As always, we look forward to your feedback. If you wish to be featured in Creative Artist, please email correspondence to: The Editor, simon@wpco.com.au, or post your contributions to: Creative Artist, PO Box 8035, Glenmore Park, NSW, 2745.…

The 2014 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize – Australia’s pre-eminent national prize for small sculpture – was awarded to an international artist for the first time in the Prize’s 14-year history. New Zealand artist Natalie Guy, based in Auckland, won the $15,000 acquisitive main prize for her work, Form for modern living #2, a five-kilogram bronze cast of what was originally a reworked plywood school-chair. Form for modern living #2 builds on a series of ‘pseudo-modernist’ sculptures that Natalie began creating in 2012, exploring the nature of what is collected and exhibited in both the private and public sphere. Greatly influenced by modernist mid-century interior objects, domestic interiors and the familiarity of everyday objects, she also draws from celebrated British sculptor Barbara Hepworth’s series of Forms. A record number of entries…

Scratchboard. What is it? Scratchboard is a board with a thin clay coating covered with black ink. A scratch tool is used to scratch through the layer of black ink revealing the white clay underneath. You can buy board that is pre-inked, called scratchboard, or un-inked, called clayboard. There are also boards that are coloured beneath the black ink. You can use a variety of tools, basically anything that scratches. Nibs, steel wool, fiberglass brushes, emery boards and tattoo needles all have their uses. The main tool of trade for most scratchboarders is a fine nib like a No. 11 exacto blade. Once a layer is scratched, diluted ink is layered over the artwork by brush and rescratched to create tone and form. This process of scratching and layering diluted…

From bone sculptures, circular textures, bolted books, moon bowls and landscapes, there is surely something to delight everyone. Director Ami says, “Putting this exhibition was actually easy, these were works that didn’t quite fit into any other exhibition this past year, but they were just too good to pass up. I decided to make a category - an exhibition for all those interesting works and call it Anything Goes! We try to include as many talented artists that we can, we are just unfortunately limited on time and space. This exhibition features the art of several great emerging Wellington based artists including David Boyle, Jenny Hartley, Ellen Hodgetts, Lynne Wakem, Christina Litras and Shane Gallagher”. For more information about this exhibition, please visit www.artriumgallery.co.nz .…

Tools Scratchboard is a sheet of masonite coated in fine kaolin clay and sprayed with black India Ink. The International Society of Scratchboard Artists defines it thus: “Scratchboard Art is a 2-dimensional, subtractive medium that involves the use of abrasive tools to directly remove a surface layer of one value (typically dark) to expose a secondary layer of a contrasting value (typically white). “The majority of the values within the artwork should be achieved by varying the amount of surface layer that has been removed or left. “Reapplying of transparent mediums over the initial scratching is permissible, but the integrity of the underlying scratching should remain visible. “Works may be colour or black and white.” Clayboard (officially spelt Claybord) is the same as scratchboard but without the layer of ink.…

Materials • 140lb Fabriano Hot Press watercolour paper • H Graphite Pencil • Stylus with a small head and slightly larger head • Dr Ph Martin’s Bleed Proof White • Faber and Castel Polychromo coloured pencils: – Burnt Ochre – Burnt Sienna – Cream – Dark Indigo – Dark Pthalo Blue – Earth Green Yellowish – Indian Red – Ivory – Light Cobalt Turquoise – Light Flesh – Light Green – Light Ultramarine – Mauve – Middle Cadmium Red – Naples Ochre – Olive Green Yellowish – Pine Green – Raw Umber – Walnut Brown – Warm Grey II – Warm Grey V • Derwent coloured pencil – Turquoise Green Step One Using 140lb Fabriano Hot Press Watercolour paper and an H Graphite Pencil I made a faint drawing of…

In November, STILLS Gallery in Paddington, NSW presented a solo show of the work of Trent Parke at Paris Photo, Grand Palais Paris (STILLS Gallery Stand D01). The stand included work from Parke’s recent series The Camera is God (street portrait series), To The Sea photo-books, as well as a preview of three works from Parke’s upcoming solo show at Art Gallery of South Australia in 2015, premiering his new body of work The Black Rose. Some of Parke’s recent achievements include: • Winner, Prudential Eye Awards – Photogrpahy (2014) - $20,000 USD Prize (To The Sea photo-books. Baby and girl. After the Rodeo from Minutes to Midnight). • Winner, Olive Cotton Portrait Prize (2013) (No. 348 Candid portrait of a woman on a street corner, Adelaide). Stills Gallery 36…

Starr is fast becoming a paragon of contemporary Australian art, both here and around the world. With successful exhibitions around Australia as well as in New York and Singapore, she is carving a niche for herself, with an instantly recognisable and thoroughly original style. Her work explores the warmth and passion of life as an artist, responding to intense experiences of the abundant light in the Australian landscape and the sensuous potential of the human form. Starr captures in paint what the camera seeks to fix in a moment of time. Her works secure what is elusive and mutable in our relationships to places and the people who inhabit them. Starr’s paintings are intensely personal and are as much the work of a devotee of popular culture as they of…

Born in Damascus, Syria in 1975, Sara belongs to a family of intellectuals, who always encouraged her in her path as an artist. She graduated from the Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Damascus in 1998. Since then she has been constantly involved in the art scene. Diaspora is about her feelings and mixed thoughts about the critical situation in her homeland. “As with many others populations in history, it seems that it is the turn of the Syrians to flee their homeland and scatter around the world. I define this as a real diaspora because it forms mass dispersions of an involuntary nature of a group of people maintaining a myth about their peaceful homeland; they regard the cities they left as their true home,…

Hi Brett, I have dabbled in art on and off for forty years and having part completed a commercial art course in the 1970s, I appear to have, until recently, missed the concept of drawing the negative spaces. I still primarily draw what I see but recognise the negative space concept as having a place in all drawings. My interest here is where did this concept come from and how long did it take to get accepted by the broader art world? With thanks, Wade, Bidwill. Hi Wade, I just love negative spaces as they really are purely abstract shapes that can’t lead you astray with preconceived ideas of what you are drawing. They are a great proportional judgement tool as if they are not right the positive shapes (the…

The natural world gives me immense pleasure. I have my mother to thank for teaching me, as a child, to appreciate nature. I have enjoyable memories of clambering over rocks with her on sunny days, catching skinks for her aquarium or playing with the many different dogs she bred. Coupled with an adventurous nature, I soon exchanged dolls for climbing trees, collecting birds’ eggs or moulding animals from clay, sourced from my backyard. All these experiences fashioned me into the person I am today – a wildlife artist. When not exploring my surroundings I immersed myself in drawing. Growing older I found work and later family life crowded out the time to pursue my art. From time to time I caught a glimpse of where I wanted to be when…

1. Optex Mini Photo Studio Kit – $119.00 http://www.digitalcamerawarehouse.com. au/prod6570.htm The Optex mini photo studio is a great product for people wanting to photograph small scale objects. The two lights give an even illumination of the subject and the various coloured backgrounds make for a versatile piece of kit. It’s suitable for small scale sculptures, macro photography of objects, detailed photographs and anything that’s smaller scale. Those wanting to sell their works will find the quality of light out of one of these to be quite good. The kit is portable and easy to set up and the diffusers on either side provide a nice, balanced and soft light. Because the lights are constant (not flash), any camera will be able to make use of the set-up even in automatic…

Materials • Fine oil primed Belgian linen on museum quality cedar stretchers • For the Sketch-up General’s Charcoal 2B pencil Fixative • Paints – best quality for the hue – Titanium White – Naples Yellow Italian – Yellow Ochre – Cadmium Yellow – Italian Pink – Cadmium Red – Crimson Lake – Alizarin Crimson – Ultramarine Blue – Azure Blue – Video Blue Pale – Cinnabar Green – Terre Verte – Mars Red – Transparent Mars Red – Burnt Umber – Burnt Sienna – Mars Black • Painting medium – Langridge Low Toxic paint medium • Langridge Retouch Varnish • Solvent – Langridge Low Toxic Solvent • Brushes- soft hair badger and sable – Flats and Filberts from #2 - #20 – Sable rounds #000 - #2 Step One Using…