10th August 2024 10am - 1pm
Join us at White Rock Studio for a morning focusing on drawing to improve your observation skills and explore different mark-making techniques. You will complete several different exercises, working from still life and images, in different mediums including graphite, charcoal and coloured pencil.
The workshop will be led by artist-educator Stephanie Bray. Stephanie has over 15-years’ experience in visual arts education and has worked on education programs at the Powerhouse Museum, Sculpture by the Sea, Hazelhurst Art Centre and Shoalhaven Regional Gallery. Stephanie has been operating White Rock Studio in Vincentia for 8 years.
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Image credits: White Rock Studio student artworks. Copyright remains with the artist.
26th August 2024 10am - 1pm
Join us at White Rock Studio for a morning focusing on drawing to improve your observation skills and explore different mark-making techniques. You will complete several different exercises, working from still life and images, in different mediums including graphite, charcoal and coloured pencil.
The workshop will be led by artist-educator Stephanie Bray. Stephanie has over 15-years’ experience in visual arts education and has worked on education programs at the Powerhouse Museum, Sculpture by the Sea, Hazelhurst Art Centre and Shoalhaven Regional Gallery. Stephanie has been operating White Rock Studio in Vincentia for 8 years.
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Image credits: White Rock Studio student artworks. Copyright remains with the artist.
14th September 2024 9.30am - 4.30pm
About Josefia
Josefia Lemon has been a member of the Australian Watercolour Institute (AWI) and the AWI Executive Committee since 2004. From 2000-2020 she taught watercolour workshops/classes at the Julian Ashton Art School until the start of the pandemic. Since then, she has taught watercolour classes online and by invitation. In 1979 Josefia emigrated to Australia from Indonesia. She worked in office roles for over a decade before attending painting workshops and casual classes. In 1996 Josefia studied full time at the Julian Ashton Art School and was awarded the Thea Proctor Scholarship for 1997. She obtained a Diploma of Fine Art from the Julian Ashton Art School in 1999 and from 2002-2014 was a member of the Portrait Artists Australia. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and she has won and been shortlisted for over 50 prizes.
Watercolour workshop
I aim to simplify some of the fundamental techniques of painting with watercolours and to achieve a sense of distance using tonal values, colours and shapes including composition. Demonstrations will be given. References will be provided. Students will be encouraged to work fast confidently.
SUGGESTED LIST OF MATERIALS OR USE WHAT YOU HAVE
3B pencil, kneadable rubber, watercolour palette with large enough mixing area compartments, 2 water containers, 1 roll toilet tissue, 1 old towel, 1 kitchen sponge, a painting board (size A4 or larger), and a small box for propping up the board.
COLOURS (Artists Quality): Alizarin Crimson (Permanent is more expensive), Prussian Blue, Cobalt Blue, French Ultramarine Blue, Cerulean Blue, Raw Sienna, Raw Umber, Burnt Sienna, Sepia, Quinacridone Gold, Viridian. OPTIONAL COLOURS: Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Red, Burnt Umber, Sap Green.
BRUSHES: Good quality eg. Squirrel brushes – Sizes 1, 2 and 3; and 1 synthetic liner (size 4 or 6)
PAPER: 300 gram watercolour paper, medium texture (cold pressed) or watercolour pad. Suggested brands: Saunders-Waterford, Arches or Baohong -“the Master’s Choice”
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Saturday 21st September | 9.30 am – 4.00 pm
Workshop held at 34 Alexandria Street, Berry
(Keith Dewell Studio)
12 participants in workshop - $95 fee
Participants to bring their own lunch
Bonnie Porter Greene - Painter, explorer.
Bonnie explores her love of the landscape through reflective studio practice & en plein air excursions, resulting in direct and honest painted memories of the landscape. Her paintings imbue her connection and concern for the environment. Always involved in an array of creative projects, an artistic response will follow interactions with nature that have impacted significantly upon her.
About this Workshop
Artist Bonnie Porter Greene leads an abstract painting workshop focusing on intuition and gestural mark-making in response to the natural landscape surrounding the Berry Showgrounds. Participants will be gently guided through drawing en plein air with charcoal, to creating abstract works on paper using gouache.
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Immerse yourself in the beautiful Shoalhaven landscape and create amazing landscape artworks. All skill levels welcome. Bring your own art supplies and thermos.
Contact: Mark Rayment 0412 228 854
The Group meet on the last Wednesday of each month in various outdoor locations in and around beautiful Jervis Bay, usually at 9:30am. Locations range from towns north of Nowra to villages south of Jervis Bay.
It's free, and no commitment is required. All welcome.
Please contact Julie Carter (0413 482 710) or
Debra Quartararo (0439 396 061)
for more information.
Col: "It was an absolute pleasure to do an art workshop for such a keen and happy group.
The venue is a superb location to hold such days and hopefully we can hold many more in the future.
In addition to that, the effort the participants put in was sensational and their work is a testament to that."
From Denise: " Thank you so much for an informative, enjoyable workshop with Col. We loved working with the charcoal to free our drawing hands up. Some of us were new to pastels but Col made us feel comfortable and assisted us well. We were mesmerised by how beautiful his work is and his loose technique. Everyone in the group got on well and had an excellent weekend."
... and this is reflected below in the stunning artworks and beaming smiles ...
Keith Dewell's 'Elements of Drawing' workshop has concluded following a fine weekend of pencil craft over the first weekend in June.
Participants learnt how a systematic approach to drawing shapes is the basis of good drawing skills that will last your lifetime. Keith took his keen students through a path of simplifying shapes, working from big to small shapes, and passed on knowledge of how to incorporate corrections if something isn't quite right.
The workshop covered both still life as well as portraiture, as witnessed by the photos below.
"I had the great pleasure of conducting an oil painting workshop over the weekend of February 11th and 12th. The study piece was a medium size composition covering many facets of a typical seascape scene. I feel that the participants enjoyed the weekend and gained useful knowledge, insight and skills required to produce competent artworks of their own. I was pleased to see the results of their efforts and it became obvious that the students had absorbed much of the information that was constantly being divulged throughout the weekend. The class consisted of people with a wide range of experience, from beginners to those familiar with working with oil paints. We explored a few different techniques and even created our skies using our own imaginations, to avoid becoming slaves to the reference photo. Overall, it was a most enjoyable weekend with lovely people. A special thank you to Roslyn and Andrew Wilson for sharing their beautiful property and studio."
The photos below provide a glimpse of how successful and enjoyable the workshop was. The Art Society looks forward to Martin's next workshop, but we will let him have a breather first ...
Participants loved this workshop creating beautiful artworks featuring birds in nature. November 2022.
Well known local artist, Phil Miles, shared his wisdom of painting water using oil paint
Files coming soon.
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