Australian How To Paint

Hazel started painting in oils when she was eleven years old and did her first paid commission at age 16. It was, of course, an animal painting! Completely self-taught, Hazel is a multi-award winning wildlife artist, and her atmospheric paintings hav

By Hazel Howie • Stretched artist’s quality canvas measuring 40 x 50cm • 1/8 Art Basics 125 Taklon dagger brushes • ¼ Art Basics 126 Taklon angular brushes • 1” Neef 988 Taklon oval brush • 1” Art Basics mop brush • Non-toxic odourless solvent • Heat

By Leanne Moss • Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils – Walnut Brown – Cold Grey II – Burnt Ochre – Black – Caput Mortuum – Earth Green • pencils – Light Umber – Warm Grey 30% – Warm Grey 50% – Cloud Blue – Peach Biege – Sand – Eggshell – Kelp Green

As a small child, my earliest memories of art were: loving colouring-in books to colour in the drawings with pencils, although I wasn’t too keen on painting; my Grade 3 primary school teacher, Miss Toomey, putting one of my drawings on the wall in th

Judith Edwards • Reference photograph • Ampersand scratchboard • Craft knife (Xacto knife) • Fibreglass brush • Ampersand Black Repair Ink • Small paint brush • Cotton gloves or cloth • White graphite/transfer paper • Stylus or biro • White Stabilo P

I was born in Russia and as a child I always spent my spare time painting and drawing. At that time in the former Soviet Union, art materials were quite expensive and hard to find. But thanks to my mother I have always had good brushes and paints to

I’ve lived most of my life in the small mining town, of Charters Towers, Queensland, where, as a child, I often prospected for gold and fished on the coast with my family. My love of art came early; often I watched my mother’s craft group dabble for

Perseverance. My key word. If I can instil one word in anyone wanting to pursue art, it is to persevere. It doesn’t always work, it doesn’t always go your way, but keep at it, as good things can happen if you want them badly enough to work hard, and

Nola Clark is best known to our readers as a devoted pastel artist with previous demonstrations having been published in issues 45 and 58 of Artist’s Palette. After 30 years at her Heathmont home in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs she has taken her paste

By Kim Leanne Gibson Born in Perth, Western Australia, I was moved to sunny Queensland at the tender age of six weeks. I have been back to the west once as an adult (to visit), and I found the place delightful … but not quite delightful enough to dr