Noosa Art classes, landscape painting classes, colour mixing classes,italian and french scenes, oil and acrylic painting

Noosa Painting, italian and french scenes painting
Ive  been having fun painting small  italian and french  scenes over recent times, using the palette knife and using a limited palette

You can see more about these painting on my blog hope you enjoy them. Click on the images for a larger view

Abstract Painting Techniques using Masking Fluid Published article

Published article in Decorative Painting Magazine
I wrote this earlier and forgot to post it, the magazine is still available

I have had many painting projects published, but Im so excited as this is the first one on abstracts using masking fluid. There will be another available in July

There are two simple projects  as shown above . Traditionally Masking fluid is used on watercolour paintings but Ive discovered it can also be used on canvas as long as the paint used to cover it is not too thick.

Portrait by Di

Di has added some colour to the head scarf of this portrait of a Mogolian woman,
a challengingpainting in acrylics for even an experienced artist. Almost complete

A brilliant effort dont you think?

Inspiring Charcoal and Acrylic Painting on canvas

Di started on this mixed media black and white toned portrait of an elderley mongolian woman from a lonely planet image on a large canvas about 1x1 metre. Initial drawing was done with pastel and charcoal , washes of ink on the background followed by highlights of grey acrylic. Classes are on break until June so check back after that for an update.
For more information on how to use charcoal  click on the link for charcoal underlined above

Drawing and Painting Classes Noosa

Di and Lorey engrossed in  their painting class

Drawing as part of our day classes has  continued on from last term and has been very popular,
Last term we looked at contour and gesture drawing, this term we got down to the basic elements of drawing, 
Straight and curved lines and the relationships between them, horizontal, verticals , diagonals, curves, circles and spheres. This laid the groundwork for drawing an object realisticly  using the pencil to judge size and proportion

Set up for still life
In our last lesson tone was introduced using hatching  and  cross hatching to  add tone to a group of objects
Recommended Reading
An Introducion to Drawing by Robin Hazelwood

Noosa Painting and Drawing Classes Term 2

Seascape by Geoff. Geoff started classes last term and is keen on improving his seascape skills. This is  painted on gesso coated paper

Painting and Drawing class starts again tomorrow with a full day class. These are proving to be very popular and add flexibility to attendance. There are a few spots left so please contact me if you wish to join. There will not be any classes during May with 4 or 5 full day ie about 6 hrs per day during June

Update for classes

Technology has let me down and I need a new computer. SOOOO no posts for a another week or two until the new one is available.

I will be teaching more wave classes and will be posting photos of our fun so please check back in a few weeks  until later

keep painting