Tag: art workshops

Sky painting in progress and Jan’s still-life painting

Painting in Acrylic, sky, painting on canvasI 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.

Sky painting on canvas and another on board

Collage and Mixed Media Artwork

Here are three collage works made to a theme suggested by our group Melbourne Collage Meets.  The first prompt and image was wreath or circle, the second was dog and the third was Flinders Street Station (a famous Melbourne landmark).  The next two images are acrylic paintings on watercolour paper of hydrangeas with a little pencil work on them.

Our Melbourne Collage Meets group have now been meeting for a few years at a Fairfield Cafe and our newest group in Fitzroy North have been meeting for around 6 months.  The latest news is that a new group will be formed very soon, possibly in Ivanhoe or somewhere surrounding this area.  If you are interested please know these meetings are free, they are not workshops yet we do influence one another.  The only cost would be to buy a coffee and cake or similar to support the cafe we meet at.  More information can be supplied if you contact me.

 

Melbourne Collage Meets

MCM are a group of artists that started meeting after the covid bans were lifted.  We meet fortnightly at a local cafe and make collage, socialise and we have even had a fundraiser for a selected nearby school.  We absolutely love seeing each other and working together.  We have just come up with future themes rather than last minute ideas.  I’m going to give you a few if you would also like to participate here online.

June

  • Forest floor or forest animals

  • Text

July

  • A chair or seat reimagined

-Origami boxes or houses from found images (if anyone can help with a simple pattern please send me).   

I just finished a fabulous exhibition at Meeniyan gallery in South Gippsland.  I sold lots of wall assemblages and thought I should stop making these but I can’t help it, still making.  I will post some new ones soon.  They have changed into small free standing sculptures.

I will once again (maybe in Spring) be offering classes (all materials included)  for either wall art or freestanding sculpture using found objects and collage.

Hope to hear from some of you.  Why don’t you give one of the above themes to your child or your Grandmother or friend and get them to contribute too.  I’ll post it for them.