Exhibition of Oil and Pastel Paintings
by member, Susan Smart, at the Gordon Library untilearly June 2013.
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Guest Artist – March 2013 – Kasey Sealy
at our General Meeting Tuesday 5th March. Kasey Sealy is predominantly a plein air Oil painter who sensitively captures light, atmosphere and tone, resulting in evocative portrayals of the landscape. He has been a special guest artist at KAS a number of times and has an excellent Studio just north of Sydney. Kasey began painting…
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Guest Artists – February 2013 – Lesley O’Shea and Joe Penn
For those who were unable to attend the meeting this month you missed out on a truly unique and extremely entertaining experience. Lesley brought along her fiancé, Joe Penn and together they performed what they call a “Duo In Mixed Media”. Their aim is show us how to create a loose, fresh, exciting landscape in…
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*FULLY BOOKED* Yupo paper: a new watercolour experience
workshop with Robyne Berling on Saturday 2nd March 2013. Learn a new and exciting way to paint with watercolour on Yupo paper. This is a plastic coated paper that allows the paint to sit on the top of the paper rather than to absorb into the paper which results in more vibrant colours. There is…
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Colour Mixing
Workshop_ March 2013_ Jane Blundell – Colour Mixing [message_box title=”Workshop Co-ordinator’s Report” color=”yellow”] All participants had a chance to analyse their own paints with Jane during the morning session. The experimentation of colour mixing often just using triads, led to many comments like “It’s amazing what we get!”, “Look at that colour!”….Yes we did do colour charts…
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A New Approach to Abstraction
workshop with Cilla Davis on Saturday 13 April 2013. [message_box title=”Workshop Co-ordinator’s Report” color=”yellow”] Fourteen participants were taken on a journey of self-expression with Cilla. We began the day with experimenting with different marks using shades of one colour, moved on to working with more colour and finally produced a painting influenced by bottles, wire…
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Landscapes in Oils
**Postponed** – two day workshop with John Wilson Saturday May 11th and Sunday May 12th 2013. This workshop is for those who have mastered the basics and wish to move onto new levels. The course covers tone, temperature, colour mixing, composition, atmosphere, reflected lights, reflections and other subtleties unique to Australian landscape. The workshop begins…
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Landscapes in watercolour
workshop with Josefia Lemon on Saturday 15th June 2013. This workshop aims to simplify some of the fundamental techniques of painting with watercolours including washes, wet into wet and wet over dry techniques and to achieve a sense of distance using tonal values, colours and shapes. Individual guidance and demonstration will be given at the…
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