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STUDIO WORKSHOP
For the last two weeks I have been busy conducting a workshop looking at selecting, manipulating and extracting the most from a painting subject. It was a lot of fun, but we worked hard – doing a...
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LAYERED LEAVES
During the last workshop we experimented with a technique that produces interesting results if it doesn’t drive you mad first. The idea is to start with a background wash, draw the shapes of stones,...
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PAINTING NEW YORK
The last couple of weeks I’ve been locked in the studio finishing work on a book to be released early next year. I got started on a couple of urban landscapes based on parts of New York. Early one...
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NEW CHRISTMAS TOYS
Santa Claus was good to me and left a box of shiny new paint from Japan. These trays of watercolor are handmade by the Ueba company in Kyoto. They were established in 1751 and still operate out of...
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THIS LITTLE PIG
Down the road from Chateau de la Fleunie, where we spent the last week of our workshop in France, were two pigs penned up and being fattened by the local farmer. They were like a pair of friendly dogs...
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WATERCOLOR HAMMERS
Over the past couple of weeks it has been pouring rain here, so I’ve been having a great time shut away in the studio painting hammers. It all started with the claw hammer and grew from there....
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AUGUST STUDIO WORKSHOP
We have just finished two full on weeks of workshops in the studio. Some familiar faces and some new faces. This is the first time we have had a completely new group for the second week, so I thought...
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WORKSHOP DEMOS
Here are some of the demo paintings from the Tasmanian workshop. Cray Boats moored in the bay at Bicheno – Gesso, Gouach and Phthalo Blue Further around the bay at Bicheno are rock formations covered...
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CONTRASTING BRUSH MARKS
NEW ARTICLE Contrasting Brush Marks There is a great pleasure in loading up a large brush with a mixture of strong dark pigment and quickly working some big, confident marks over the first washes of...
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WEST TO WINTON
A workshop in Blackall and another spread between Longreach and Winton saw us load up the truck and head off to central Queensland for six weeks. The country was incredibly green after all the rain...
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