Issue 24

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Creative Artist2 min readVisual Arts
Our Craft Will Never Be Mastered
Ian was born in New Zealand and migrated to Brisbane in 1999. Exploring themes of impermanence and the decentralised self, he paints with a classical technique featuring meticulous detail and layers of luminous colour. I have always enjoyed being cre
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Drawing On Life’s Encounters
Michelle Caitens Even now, living in Brisbane, I am surrounded by South-East Queensland’s treasure trove of beautiful natural features such as beaches, bays, mountain ranges and World Heritage-listed rainforests. Travel has been an important part of
Creative Artist2 min readVisual Arts
Summer Breaks – Riding Down To The Cattle Grid
Joanne Duffy • Support Material: In general I find Belgian linen in a fine weave the most desirable. Generally a heavier 14oz cotton canvas stretched over a hardwood timber frame is used. Generally I used pre-primed canvas, but sometimes will add mo
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Rolling Out The Red Carpet
• Oil primed linen • Colour pencil (Burnt Umber) • Turpentine or odourless spirits • Linseed Oil (Mussini)• Liquin (Winsor & Newton) • 14 & 20 Flat Black Sable (Da Vinci) • 6 –12 Filbert Black Sable (Da Vinci) • 2 & 4 Flat Black Sable (Da Vinci) • 0
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The Pelicans
Michelle Caitens • Canvas 900 x 600mm • Bristle brushes flat ¾”, flat 14 • Sable brushes 5/0, 0, 1,2, 4, 6 • Taklon detailer 5/0 • Sable liners 2/0, 5/0 • Art Spectrum Odourless Solvent • Genesis Air-dried clear gloss varnish• Genesis heat-set arti
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It Taught Me To Observe
Paul White Art has been a part of me for a long time. I enjoyed drawing and painting at a young age, and at high school one of my paintings was chosen to represent South Australian School Art with the ABC in Sydney. I also sold some of my paintings
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The Fibreglass Brush Scratchboarding
BY PATRICK HEDGES Fortunately companies manufacture these. Lastly you need something to scratch the colour off to create an image. This reveals the white clay and is a bit like drawing in reverse – rather than adding the darks, you add the lights. T
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From The Drawing Board
Brett A Jones Hi Brett, On a personal level, is it more important to make sacrifices art-wise and push to get a career for myself where I can be paid just to make art, or should I get a part-time job and just make art with as much of my time as poss
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Multiple Exposure Challenge
By Daniel Smith The effect has been popular throughout the history of art and photography, and in the days before digital it was an effective way of creating an effect in camera. Originally a film technique, it has translated quite well into the rea
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Tripod Buying Guide
BY DANIEL SMITH A few main factors that come into play are size, weight, stability, portability, ease of use and type of head. These are often mostly linked. You need a tripod for many areas of photography. While you are able to handhold a camera ef
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Gallery67
My name is Marion Hughes and I would like to introduce you to gallery67, which officially opened on 19 September 2014 in Gladstone, Queensland. gallery67 aims to provide Gladstone’s artists and other local artists with a place to showcase their art.
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Just A Country Girl At Art
BY DEREK L NEWTON Recently I visited two artists’ studios in the Western Australian port city of Fremantle, and as you may recall, they were featured in an earlier ‘My Space’ article. Many artists call this old port city home, and the Fremantle Art
Creative Artist4 min readPsychology
Instantly Addicted To Creating …
Joshua Miels I started my creative journey as a graphic designer in the field of fast moving consumer goods, designing supermarket and alcoholic based products for the domestic and international markets. After almost 10 years of working to the clien
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The Sculptor
Bruno Walpoth To explain why I became a sculptor, I have to say that there is a 400 year old tradition of wood sculpture in our valley, Val Gardena, in Italy. Also my two grandfathers and an uncle were sculptors therefore I grew up living in this t
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Intricate Details
• Palette knives • Brushes • Winsor Newton oil paints • Paper towels • Clear rigid PVC sheets • Wax medium• Black Conte This involves photography and sketching up the piece. Before a stroke goes down, the success or failure of my work can often come
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Aperture Summer Open
In 2014, Aperture Foundation initiated its first open-submission exhibition, the Aperture Summer Open, as a means of extending the walls of its New York gallery space to a wider group of photographers and gauging the character of contemporary photogr
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Exhibition: The Distance
Every time we have an encounter with Mustafa Ali’s work, we find ourselves in a world reflecting the source of a human being’s inner voices through space and form. In each wooden head we read the story of a thinking mind, well conserved in a perfectl
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Belvedere – Austrian Art
The Belvedere palaces were built in the eighteenth century by the famous Baroque architect Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt as a summer residence for Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663–1736). The ensemble, comprising the Upper and the Lower Belvedere, as well
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Sigmund Freud And The Play On The Burden Of Representation
In 1989 American Conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth created the installation Zero & Not on occasion of the 50th anniversary of Sigmund Freud’s death. It marked the beginning of the Sigmund Freud Museum Contemporary Art Collection featuring outstanding i
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The Abstract Expressionist
Joanne Duffy She explains that the native flora and ancient landscapes are strong stimuli for investigating our senses’ response through colour, texture and movement, and it is these remnants of experience which provides the key for interpretation o

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