Australian How To Paint

By Rodger Scott Before any painting is commenced, a number of decisions have to be made. The first for me is the subject. I have thousands of photographs of wildlife (mostly but not exclusively birds) and a decision needs to be made on what species o

Coming from a family of artists, as a kid I wanted to be anything but an artist. Even driving an ice cream van had its rewards, I thought, compared to slogging away at a painting. While having this pessimistic perception of painting I drew and painte

By James Luck My life began in Sydney, in 1966. I now live and work in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. I have had my home here for the past 29 years. I paint my . For two years after I left school, I had lessons with local artist Tex Moeke

By Marion Schumacher • Triple primed, medium weight, cotton canvas – 50 x 55 cm • Heat set paints: Titanium White; Genesis Yellow; Genesis Red; Yellow Ochre; Burnt Umber; Dioxazine Purple 04; Phthalo Blue 04; Ultramarine Blue; Phthalo Green 01. • Bru

By James Luck • Arches watercolour paper. • Drawing tools. • Gouache. • Artists’ quality watercolour paints. • Selected brushes. This particular painting was commissioned for someone moving overseas. The scene depicts the view from their family home.

A career as a professional artist called Linda MacAulay from an early age, however it wasn’t until Linda was in her 20s that she realised exactly what she wanted to be, a landscape artist. Born in Wagga Wagga in 1964, Linda spent her childhood lost i

By Bernard West • Acrylic paint on stretched 300gm Waterford water colour paper • Pencil F for preliminary sketch • Acrylic Paints: Ultramarine Blue, Cerulean Blue, Titanium White, Pthalo Green, Permanent Sap Green, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Raw Umbe

By Linda MacAulay • Canvas – Good quality 10oz acrylic primed cotton canvas over 60 x 90cm stretcher bars • Brushes – Most of the large shapes are blocked in using a one and a half inch flat brush and smaller flat brushes are used to define edges. Fo

I began my journey to painting in 1987 at a Council of Adult Education watercolour course. At that stage I had no idea what I wanted to paint, but felt that being able to create a painting would be a great creative outlet. I had this misguided idea t

My ‘art’ journey was restricted initially to dabbling in hobbies and crafts including decoupage, paper tolle, folk art, pottery, woodworking and lead lighting, until my two sons reached secondary college. Utilising my skills in tracing, gridding up,