'Painting Still Life from Real Life' with Maryanne Wick

This enjoyable course is designed to teach you the fundamentals of painting in your choice of either oil or acrylic paint. Surface preparation, technique composition and the mixing of colour will be discussed, demonstrated and practised. Starting with a painting exercise, you will be preparing your own surfaces and painting the still life composition with the aim of completing a finished work or two!

Maryanne will discuss the lives and work of various still life artists with a focus on the work of Australia's beloved Margaret Preston and Clarice Beckett. And as was the practise of these artists, your still life compositions will be painted from real life subject matter, as you learn to paint directly onto your surface in the traditional manner. For those who are new to painting, require a fresh approach or feel stuck in their painting practice, Maryanne will help you with your ability and confidence. Enjoy being taken out of your comfort zone!

Maryanne Wick is primarily known for her tonal still life painting, portraiture and drawing. She is a graduate from the National Art School and has taught painting and drawing for their Public Programs Department for over ten years. Her paintings and drawings are held in private collections both in Australia and internationally. Maryanne has also held solo exhibitions in Australia, South Korea and most recently in Spain and has been awarded artists residencies in Australia, China, Spain and the USA. Maryanne has participated in over eighty group exhibitions, including the Gallipoli Art Prize, the Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Portia Geach and Doug Moran Portrait Prizes. In 2015 she was awarded the Korea-Australia Art Foundation prize for painting.

Represented by: Art Atrium Gallery, Sydney - Simon Chan http://artatrium.com.au

Represented by: Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery, Southport, QLD http://www.lorrainepilgrim.com

Maryanne Wick: http://www.maryannewick.com

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Ross Laurie captivates his students with his thought-provoking teaching style and warm rapport. Artworkshops proudly offers his upcoming workshop where the focus is on landscape and ways to translate the landscape into Art. 'The real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes' - Marcel Proust. Changing the way we see the world lies only in the reaches of our imagination and the potential for us to create something completely unique.

'Having travelled to the other side of the world and back seeking his source as a young artist, Ross finally found mature inspiration where he started, in the spiritual sense of country that is bathed in the melancholic light around Walcha on the New England tablelands. Over the past 10 years there is a large and growing audience who recognise the lyricism and tough beauty of Laurie's work. He has received critical praise, gained selection for major exhibitions and won a number of prizes for landscape painting including the Paddington Art Prize 2015. by Joe Frost - Artist Profile Magazine.

The workshop will focus on en plein air and the local landscape. General discussion will cover paint, painting, colour mixing and painters who have influenced our work.

Ross is represented by King Street Gallery who have just concluded his first successful online exhibition and he is the esteemed Judge for the 2020 Paddington Art Prize.

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This unique outback painting adventure is just 2 hours drive west of Brisbane or the Gold Coast in the heart of Queensland's Scenic Rim. The property is set deep within 5,000 acres of private nature reserve with a variety of easily accessible painting opportunities and endless walking trails.

With the understanding and guidance of Idris, students will be developing skills to respond artistically to the landscape in an immediate and spontaneous way. Idris is one of Australia's leading landscape painters with many years of teaching experience and like many serious landscape painters, he draws his own inspiration from his travels to the bush.

Idris exposes students to a variety of ideas and approaches while helping them find their own way of translating the landscape into art. Participants will have full access to his guidance, generosity and wealth of knowledge as well as the added benefit of group discussion and talks each evening about paint, painting, painters and the history of painting.

-Cost is based on twin share.

-Fully catered including morning & afternoon tea.

-Luxury tents have own private verandah to take in the vast mountain views.

-hot water bottle turn down service

-Robes & slippers provided

-polished timber floorboards

-All bedding & towels supplied

-Beautifully appointed communal bathrooms located near main lodge - shampoo, conditioner & body wash provided

Break free of your post lockdown lethargy and get into mixed media with Judith White.

Judith's work is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts and subjects that challenge traditional boundaries and defy easy definition. The sky's the limit when creating with mixed media. By incorporating charcoal, inks, crayon, collage and acrylics in one artwork, you can utilize the best that each medium has to offer.

The workshop is designed to expand your ideas about contemporary art practice using the established observational methods of drawing through to finished mixed media painting. Subjects will include 'unconventional still-life' and landscape.

You will be encouraged to loosen up and break bad habits.

Due to social distancing the workshop is limited to 10 only

DEPOSIT REQUIRED WITH BOOKING - IT IS NOT REFUNDABLE OR TRANSFERABLE.

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