by Sara | Oct 2, 2013 | Articles, For Artists, News, Painting, Technique
Painting en plein air simply means painting out “in open air”. When the weather permits many artists like to grab their painting supplies and head into the great outdoors. It’s not a new practice. Plein air painting became fashionable in the latter part of the 1800’s...
by Sara | Sep 6, 2013 | Exhibition, For Artists, Fun stuff, Galleries, News, Painting
I am very happy to finally announce the starting date to my Melbourne Oil Painting Exhibition on the 11th of September. I have been preparing for this exhibition for close to six months now and it is fantastic to finally see it all happening. If you are singed up to...
by Sara | Aug 28, 2013 | Articles, For Artists, Fun stuff, News, Technique
Stephen Wiltshire is a phenomenon. What makes Stephen Wiltshire marvellous is his art. What makes Stephen Wiltshire even more extraordinary is that his methodology is unparalleled in the world of art and artistry. While most of us have difficulty remembering where we...
by Sara | Aug 7, 2013 | Articles, For Artists, Fun stuff, News, Painting, Products, Technique
If you happen to be an artist or even the slightest bit interested in painting or art, you have stumbled upon the right article! Below are 8 must read art books that you can’t afford to ignore. These books range from incredible people, doing incredible things,...
by Sara | Jul 18, 2013 | Articles, For Artists, News, Technique
Many artists complain about writing an artist statement and some even refuse. For visual people finding and organizing words into paragraphs to describe the multi-dimensional flow of variables that come together when they are creating seems impossible. However the...
by Sara | Jul 7, 2013 | Articles, For Artists, Fun stuff, Painting, Technique
Are you an artist looking for some painting ideas? It happens to all of us, sooner or later. There you are facing a blank white surface and it’s time to squeeze paint onto palette, load up the paintbrush and make that first mark. But, the moments tick by and unable to...
by Sara | Jun 29, 2013 | Articles, For Artists, News, Painting, Products, Technique
Artists are often asked which art products they couldn’t possibly do without. So I thought I would share with you the most inspensible and well used item in my studio. The Pigment Stick. Doesn’t sound exciting I know, but believe me, once you have used...
by Sara | Jun 17, 2013 | Fun stuff, News, Videos
I have promised that I would start working on my video production a little more to desmonstate to all you wonderful people how I create my artworks, in particular my oil paintings which happens to be my specialty. It would be quite a boring video if I was to sit a...
by Sara | Jun 2, 2013 | Fun stuff, News, Painting
Painting is essentially a fairly solitary occupation. Not lonely at all, but mostly it’s just you, the canvas and the cat. To save your sanity it’s a really good idea to link up with other artists to paint together as a group. Not only is an artist...
by Sara | May 5, 2013 | Fun stuff, News, Painting
I’m not a great one for surrealist paintings – until I came across the very talented Andrew Baines. Immediately I was captivated by his wonderful paintings of everyday things taken out of context – men in bowler hats and suits in the surf, hills...