Creative Artist

My childhood upbringing was in the bush in the Hunter Valley of NSW, where I started drawing as a young girl. My imagination was inspired by my father from the bush environment where we lived - he was my first art teacher. My career started as a Grap

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

Norman Lindsay was born on 22 February 1879, in Creswick in the Victorian goldfields, and died at Springwood, NSW at the age of ninety on 21 November, 1969. His family’s artistic talent came from his mother, a daughter of the Rev. Thomas Williams who

the Belconnen Community Centre plus I had two exhibitions at the historical Strathnairn Homestead here in Canberra. I enter church and school art shows regularly but have yet to enter any prize winning exhibitions. My work is from photos, as I believ

• 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 Pencil• Eraser• Spray var

I haven’t exactly had a conventional background when it comes to art. I was born in Tweed Heads and have lived on the Gold Coast all my life. It is only recently that I have begun to really concentrate on my love of drawing animals. As a child I had

• Stretched canvas • Aquarelle pencil • Paints – Ultramarine Blue – Titanium White – Raw Sienna – Burned Sienna – Yellow Mid – Payne’s Grey – Raw Umber I am painting on a 500 x 600mm stretched canvas. Using a dark shade Aquarelle pencil, draw in the

I would imagine that if I mentioned scratchboard to someone who knew vaguely what it was they would have an idea that you would scratch away the black to reveal white by using a sharp knife. In previous issues of Creative Artist I’ve introduced a var

• Canson A3 drawing paper – 220 GSM• No. 2 and No. 6 paper tortillons• Staedtler Mars Lumiograph Pencils – 2B, 4B and HB• 2B Mechanical Pencil• Soft white eraser• White eraser pencil• Tissues• Tracing paper (for resting the drawing hand on) “This pho