Innehållsförteckning för Issue 20 från Creative Artist

The artists profiled in this issue have come from all walks of life, and we hope you find their journeys inspiring. The talented artist profiles and workshops are sure to provide budding and experienced artists alike with plenty of new ideas, advice and ways of thinking. We explore a local art museum with a generous vision to enrich lives through art. Shepparton Art Museum is impressive to say the least, holding one of Australia’s leading collections of Australian ceramics. We also highlight must-visit exhibitions for art enthusiasts to check out over the coming months. Plus, our International section recaps some of the best exhibitions worldwide. Creative Artist loves to showcase the artistic works of talented Australians, so if you’re keen to be featured, please send your submissions to us. If…

Materials List • Eraldo stretched canvas 76cm x 122cm • Art Spectrum Refined Linseed Oil • Art Spectrum Pure Gum Turpentine • Various size flat brushes (Bristle and Taklon) • Art Spectrum oil paints: – Titanium White – Pthalo Blue – Lemon Yellow – Yellow Ochre – Burnt Sienna – Permanent Rose • Winsor & Newton oil paints: – French Ultramarine – Cerulean Blue Hue – Cobalt Blue – Cadmium Yellow Pale Hue – Cadmium Red Hue Step One Mix linseed oil and turps in a glass jar and apply thinly on the blank canvas with a large flat bristle painting brush. Wipe off any excess oil with a cloth or paper towel. This preparation allows you to apply oil paint thinly and to fix the drawing line easily. While…

Combining art, fashion, science, and conservation, the revelatory exhibition Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures brings together—for the first time—a newly discovered drawing by Jean Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) and some 14 of his paintings that have been identified with it including the Gallery’s own Young Girl Reading (c. 1769). Fragonard is considered among the most characteristic and important French painters of his era, and this series casts light on the development of his career, the identity of his sitters and patrons, and the significance of his innovative imagery. Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures and the fully illustrated catalog that accompanies it not only present new art-historical and scientific research into this series but also examine the 18th-century Parisian world in which these paintings were created. Covered with 18 thumbnail-sized sketches and apparently annotated…

Materials List • A3 MDF board, triple primed with Gesso • HB pencils • Kneaded eraser • Clean clothes/rags • Medium • Brushes: – Hog bristle brushes (#2 and #8) – Taklon Mop (½” and 1”) – Detail brushes (round #0) – Long liner (#0) – Fan brush (#1) – Filbert (#4) • Artist quality oil paints: – Titanium White – Spectrum Yellow – Yellow Ochre – Alizarin Crimson – Spectrum Red . – Viridian Green – Burnt Umber – Mars Black – French Ultramarine Blue Step One I have a variety of reference photos of the sitter before I start. I choose a photo which best represents the personality of my cousin and which pose works aesthetically. Step Two I start to draw the plains of the head, shoulders…

Outstanding works of art by the great Dutch masters, including Rembrandt and Vermeer, come to Sydney this summer at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This exhibition presents a richly unfolding panorama of Dutch society during the 17th century — an era of unparalleled wealth, power and cultural confidence. During the Dutch golden age, the art of painting flourished like never before. Artists sensitively observed the beauty of the visible world, transforming it, with great skill, into vivid and compelling paintings. Their subjects ranged from intense portraits and dramatic seascapes to tranquil scenes of domestic life and careful studies of fruit and flowers. Drawn from the Rijksmuseum, the renowned national collection of the Netherlands, Rembrandt and the Dutch golden age includes a rare painting by Johannes Vermeer and a…

Margaret Olley’s Duxford Street property was her home, her studio and the subject matter for her paintings for almost 50 years. Sometimes the interiors were merely the backdrop to a still life painting, for which she would arrange and re-arrange objects from her dense collection of ‘things’. At other times it was the interiors themselves that were the subject matter. The blue kitchen, the green kitchen, the yellow room, the hat factory interiors (garden room, dining area, sitting room) were rendered in changing light – luminous in in the morning light, cosy and cavernous in the evening – the rooms were re-visioned to capture particular, fleeting moments in time. Within these spaces, she orchestrated ordinary, everyday objects to convey an extraordinary, yet humble sense of humanity. Her paintings speak of…

Yoshie Hughes was born in Hokkaido, Japan and came to Australia in 1996 for a working holiday where she ended up starting a new family and a career as an artist on the Gold Coast. While growing up in Japan, Yoshie worked at the family business of a bakery. She believes this is where her art skills cultivated, helping her family decorate cakes, showcases, shop fronts and design advertisements. In 1996, Yoshie came to Australia with the intention of staying for 12 months on a working holiday, however within a few months she met her husband Tony. She now has three children, two dogs and a cat, and of course, her supportive husband. “I enjoy my life here and I believe that the Gold Coast is the best place to…

Materials List • Double thick stretched canvas • Charcoal • Raphael brushes: Size 18, 14 and 8 • Westart riggers: Size 1 and 2 • Art Spectrum oil paint: – Cerulean Blue – Langridge oil paints: – Cad Yellow – Cad Orange – Cad Red Light – Burnt Sienna – Burnt Umber – Ultramarine Blue – Cobalt Blue – Gamblin oil paints: – Dioxicean Purple Step One The canvas I am using is a reasonably large piece, 120cm X 92cm double thick stretched canvas, so the best thing to do is get some colour on it before you start sketching out your subject. I did this by using an 8cm flat brush to move the mix of Burnt Sienna and Perlyne Crimson around the canvas. After doing this I wiped…

This fall, The Frick Collection will present Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Renaissance Masterpieces Restored, a focused exhibition on two recently conserved and rarely seen paintings by the celebrated artist Paolo Veronese (1528–1588), Saint Jerome in the Wilderness and Saint Peter Visiting Saint Agatha in Prison. While the paintings are known to scholars, their remote location in a church in Murano, an island in the lagoon of Venice, has made them difficult to study. Saint Jerome in the Wilderness has been exhibited outside the church only once—in 1939, in the Paolo Veronese exhibition at Ca’ Giustinian, in Venice—while Saint Peter Visiting Saint Agatha in Prison has not left since being installed there in the early nineteenth century. The exhibition, on view October 24, 2017, through March 11, 2018, will provide…

“Painting is like entering into your own world where I can create anything I want, using any colour and materials in the process” Mario Sukkar is a young Sydney based artist with exemplary talent. He recalls first becoming interested in art at the tender age of five, “I would draw cartoons which led me to draw realistic portraits by the age of eight.” At this time, Mario drew portraits of his parents, celebrities and Saints. At the age of 11, he started painting. “My mum bought me paints, little brushes and a little easel. I painted my first portrait of St Charbel.” Mario would practise art in his studio every day, experimenting with colours and techniques, and painting both portraits and landscapes. A career that started young, Mario received…