Creative Artist

I had the urge to doodle and draw from a young age, which was an unformed process until I met an artist who lived on the street where we lived. I had always been a rational person, tending toward science rather than the arts, and had started a physic

Once you have a prepared canvas, it's time to start your work. I start by drawing up the basic large shapes with a Chinagraph pencil. I work from top to bottom and from back to the front of the picture. For example, in a landscape the furthest aspect

Operators of the Lethbridge Gallery believe that a valuable and fulfilling part of making art and exhibiting it is to meet the people who are moved by their creations. This gallery’s philosophy is that meeting the purchasers makes a fulfilling link b

I haven’t painted a beach painting for some time, and thought it an ideal subject for a painting demonstration. I needed new source photos for the painting, so I organised family members and their dogs to meet me at the local Perth dog exercise beach

I can´t really answer why I started photography, it was more a matter of if. I think I have always had an artistic side to me; when I was young I did draw a little and loved doing so, but that fell away through the school years, only for me to pick i

Modern cameras do a great job of shooting in most lighting conditions. Even very low light conditions are easily handled by modern DSLR sensors. There are always times though where you need more light, and a portable flash is great for these situatio

Braden Duncan is an artist and curator by trade, imperfect by choice, and a cog in the machine of human mythology by default. She draws her inspiration from the peculiar minutiae of the human form, symbolism and mythology, the empty spaces left by mi

Draw out the composition in pencil and fix it to a rigid surface with artist’s tape. Artist tape detaches more cleanly than masking tape, and taping down the composition ensures that it remains flat and that any excess water is contained. Using a sat

The Marian Goodman Gallery recently held an exhibition of selected works by Juan Muñoz from 1984-2001. Curated by Russell Ferguson, it was accompanied by a catalogue. Three key works by Muñoz were featured: the sculptural installations Thirteen Laugh

The autumn exhibition at the lower Belvedere’s Orangery was devoted to Claude Monet, one of the principal practitioners of Impressionism, and the profound impact of his painting on Austrian art. Besides Edouard Manet, the Viennese art scene of the la

I find scratchboard to be such a fabulous medium. It’s incredibly versatile – you can colour it or have it black and white, you can use it expressively or for fine intricate detail and you can use a variety of tools to get exactly the effect you wish

I’m unable to recall the “beginning” of my creative pursuit, as I have been deeply involved with visual arts since early childhood. Early on I used “amature” materials and simple mediums, such as school markers for comic strips and No 2 pencils for s

Today I’m visiting outstanding artist Penny Maddison in her rammed earth studio high in the Darling Range, east of Perth, Western Australia. I love that feeling you get as you climb into the Perth hills, leaving the restless city far below to its own