Alphington Community Centre Winter Salon Show is coming up on the 13th to the 16th August.
Alphington Winter Art SalonWe would love to see you at the opening on Friday evening or over the weekend.
MCM will be exhibiting fun, quirky collages, mixed media works, framed and unframed works. Hope to see you there.
Melbourne Collage Meets have a new topic for collage this month. Patterns is it.
Here is a little piece that I have played with while having a think about something more serious (that may never come).
We are currently planning to exhibit at the Salon exhibition at the Alphington Community Centre. It was a fabulous event that we participated in last year. We showed framed artwork, work mounted on matboard and cards. Many of our group have exhibited before but it was so wonderful to see others that showed for the very first time. I will let you know when this happens so that you can come along and see what we are making and hopefully you will fall in love with something and buy it. 
As part of the Alphington Open Studio group we are having a preview exhibition of the entire studio group in one gallery. Yarra Sculpture Gallery. See invite attached.
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Our collage group Melbourne Collage Meets are also participating in a group show at
TBH BALLARAT – Exhibition is titled Ctrl V – Opening 9th March https://tbhstudio-au.square.site/whats-on
A group of us will go in by train, have some lunch, go to the exhibition opening and then take a look around beautiful Ballarat before returning by train. Sh
ould be great fun.
Our collage group has had the theme abstract Autumn for the last two weeks. Several members of our group will be exhibiting in Ballarat alongside other Ballarat based collage artists at TBH Studio. Find more information about the exhibition at https://tbhstudio-au.square.site/whats-on
In a world saturated with images, we borrow, steal, splice, and remix to make sense of the noise. Ctrl + V brings together a group of artists who revel in the cut-and-paste ethos, where scissors are scalpels, glue is intention, and nothing is ever just one thing.
Whether you work with vintage magazines, found photos, Photoshop, or glue stick chaos, we want to see how you slice up the world and reassemble it. This show is about creative disruption, unexpected juxtapositions, and the beauty of fragments.
Opening in May!
Our observational drawing classes on Saturday afternoon and Wednesday evening are going well. Lots of drawings, exercises, using tone to describe a shape, tricks for symmetry if you need it and learning more about materials. Here are some of the drawings completed after either 10minutes or 30minute sessions – I’ve just mixed up some of the two groups together.
I have set up a large round table with objects, fruit and vegetables for each to select for drawing. After exercises to relax the hand we then do some rapid one object drawing, then two objects and then build up to introducing a longer draw or incorporating a new material such as ink, or coloured pencils.
The classes are a lot of fun and we are just about to complete the fourth of five classes. Let me know if you are interested in doing this in the future – possibly in May. I’m in Alphington. annewarrenart@gmail.com
I started a little late with my Summer workshops however they are going so well. I have a Saturday afternoon group and a Wed night group that will meet for five weeks. We did some exercises to relax the hand, some tricks to draw a symmetrical shape (don’t have to of course), used tone to help an object become 3D and have used some smudge stick work for shading – but not too much as it is so easy to just move graphite across the paper and then everything starts to look rather medium when that happens.
Also making some new cards see the formal upholstered chair on a vintage french lexicon page. I have quite a quirky variety of cards here but I can make a commissioned card to order (just give me some guidelines).
Email me or find me on instagram if you would like to chat about anything you see here.
We held our first Observational Drawing Class (first of 5) on Saturday.
It was very successful and a gorgeous bunch of people participated.
I have a few places available on Wed night 5-7pm for anyone interested. First class is on Wed 25th February. Contact me if you are interested.
We did some exercises, drew some apples using a variety of different techniques and then worked on a section of the still-life set up. Each class will be a little different and the set up will change as well.
Still Life
Painting with pink flowers
Collage with Spotty Vase
Collage Tree House
Although the styles are different I have been told that they are easily
distinguished as my work. I’m not sure how.
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Art Classes in making still-life images, techniques, paint etc, abstract art and mixed media collage art.
One on one or come along with a friend for a fortnightly class in my Alphington studio.
Any questions – email me.
Rockpools
My inspiration for the abstracted view of a rockpool was the joy of discovering some of the unexpected and quirky shapes, colours and textures. Each of the rocks depicted are created to bring joy and happiness to the viewer with their surprising bands of colour and embroidery like patternations.
When I looked in rockpools I loved finding a smooth rock or a different coloured rock with a band of colour or a textured lichen covered rock. I have made sizes from 100cm x 100cm down to 30cm x 30cm. I hope you like them as much as I like making them. Very meditative.
I am painting the sky and plan to add some more details including a little colour and more. I find blues and greens some of the hardest colours to work out or to get just right. The smaller painting was for a little girl so I wanted some joy in the blue colour. The rectangular one is the larger piece. I had already gone a little too deep with the blue sky which I have rectified below. It’s not as dark as it looks here. I have more to do on it before I would say it is finished.
The still-life painting is by Jan. Jan comes by for workshops with me and paints from scratch or reworks paintings that she had shelved for a long time. The gorgeous painting below was an old one that now has a new lease of life.
