Posts tagged ‘art workshops’
Beautiful Canberra where you can still see the sky from the ground.
No super high rise buildings here. I loved the chunky low rise buildings. Very 60’s.
Beautiful Canberra where you can still see the sky from the ground.
No super high rise buildings here. I loved the chunky low rise buildings. Very 60’s.
Really really reduced prices Artist Sale at Cambridge Studio Gallery Collingwood.
STUDIO CLEARANCE SALE
1 weekend only! 52 Cambridge Street, Collingwood. See their website and pictures of works for sale on their instagram site.
17 & 18 February, 2018
10 – 5pm
Some of the artists involved so far:
Ness Alexandra, Stephen Armstrong, Richard Birmingham, Johnathon Dudley, Susan Gibson, Margaret Gurney, Diane Keating, Sharyn Madder, Emma Morrison, Kathleen Ralston, Rosemary Reber, E Ryan, Jenny Scholes, Erica Wagner, Anne Warren, Beryl White
And indigenous works distributed by Jennifer Dudley
Art Workshop spaces for Thursday
I have a couple of openings for art workshops Thursday 2nd June and Thursday 9th of June for anyone that is interested. .
Can you tell I get a kick out of collage?
I like to challenge myself by selecting just one or two books from my collage bookcase to create collage images. The abstract was just from one page alone – can you see the bedhead, blanket, pillow, childs shoe strap, and a couple of other things? I often do not stick these things down, they are ephemeral and may turn up in a different image in the future – see the horse repeated. Can’t do that if you commit with glue however I was given a visual diary so I feel I need to fill it and I have kept a few of the above in it.
Workshops are still available – email me if you need details.
Small details from small collage art.
Here are a couple of details from two different collage works I am making for the Beth Hulme Exhibition yet to come. I have made 10 small collage works of scenes with children in all types of different environments. The two above are children and dogs and children and birds. The works are fun and joyous and still some of my absurd humour thrown in as usual. Hope you like them. There is a little paint and ink, some paper cutout from various sources of books (checked so don’t worry they are not rare but they were special in my eyes) and then an assemblage on birch board.
Building a tent with collage.
I have been holding very small (2-4 people) collage and still-life painting workshops in my studio on the first Tuesday and the first Thursday in each month. Keep me in mind for the future and if those days do not suit I can do private one on one workshops. Email me if you want to know more.
The images above are of the collage play that I tend to drift into late at night.
The still-life with pears are painted using some paint left to me by art students. Simple but sweet I think.
The little village is a first entry into a visual diary for this year. I am not a big fan of such things for myself but I thought I would start one and see where it takes me. The tent was easy and a fun and fantasy thing to do. As I have mentioned before many of these things no longer exist as it is just play and never glued down. They may come up in a finished piece one day although it will be a totally different configuration.
Taking bookings for Art Workshops in Melbourne.
Think about taking an art class with me on Feb 2nd or Feb 4th.
My next Still-Life Painting Workshop is on Tuesday February 2nd. It is a very small class of only 3 people so you get lots of attention and information. There is a materials list that I would provide for this class. I have vacancies for the evening class Feb 2nd 6.00 – 9.00pm.
My next Group Collage Workshop is on February 4th 9.30-12.30pm and a later one at 6.00-9.00pm. I still have some places available in both classes. The classes will be for beginners, artists interested trying a different approach, those that have taken a class before that are wanting more direction to consolidate and or make new artwork. Email me warrener_@hotmail.com.
A few hiccups but fish mobile finished.
I have really enjoyed making this mobile. Many moons ago I saw a Calder exhibition and fell in love with it. I mean many moons ago – probably the 70’s and I didn’t even know who he was. This is nothing like what I saw but the motivation has been there for a long time to make something that moved easily, gently with a breeze. I kind of fell in to the carving of the balsa wood – the wood has been sitting in my studio for about 10 years.
As someone said to me it is like a collage, an assemblage and I guess that’s right. The little red beads came off a bracelet, the string was purchased for gift tags, I cannot remember why I bought balsa wood 10 years ago and the finest crochet hook ever made was a tool I had in my kit that I never thought I would ever use (to drag the string through the wood).
I have one or two cuts on my fingers from the blade, lots of sneezing from the powdery dust and grit in my eyes, sanding a beautiful tail and then accidentally breaking it off (a few times) an enormous tangle in the string when I thought I was finished, my husband saying it wasn’t serious art but all that was the negatives that brought me to this humble piece that I had to make.
Fish sculpture made from soft wood.
I can see all the little bits that need sanding in this photo. I’ll get back to it. This is a very simple assemblage I hope to finish this week as a mobile. I need to drill some very fine holes into it for the fishing line (how apt) so please wish me luck as I am not sure if this wood will split. Each fish has taken two to three hours to complete probably because I am learning and do not have the right tools. I like learning from mistakes – generally the lessons stick.
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