Life Drawing Workshop Bundaberg Feb 2023

Thirteen participants gathered in Bundaberg to explore preparing and repurposing papers, and exercises from photographs on the first day, and drawing from a model on the second.

This is a demonstration drawing from the first day. The paper was washed with water and a sponge, eradicating the previous drawing but leaving certain sections of the background still in place for the new life study. Everyone enjoyed preparing and repurposing papers, and could see how useful this process is in freeing up the start of a drawing from that daunting feeling of making the first mark on brand new clean paper.
Cara was a fabulous model, holding poses with strength, and accommodating with requests for certain poses and lengths of time.
Thankyou to Marlies and Phil from Art Plus for organising the workshop.

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Life Drawing in Bundaberg

I’m off to Bundaberg today to deliver a life drawing workshop. Have loved drawing from life since being introduced to it at art school in the early seventies – here are a few drawings from down through the years. We will be preparing papers using different techniques as well as repurposing old papers and drawings, for use in these sessions from a life model. These following drawings use a varied range of techniques, materials and surfaces, and we’ll be exploring many of them this weekend.

I like to use life drawings as collage:

Looking forward to what the participants produce!

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Separation of Acrylic Paint and Medium in the Tube

The recent Beginning Acrylics workshop reminded me that I have written about acrylic paints in my blog, from May 2021. Some may find this information useful, and here is one:.
Separation in Tube. Yikes! Nothing but clear stuff coming from the tube!

There are two reasons that the pigment separates from the binder medium and the polymer emulsion in which it is suspended in the paint tube – age, and changes in temperature. Living in Australia, I sometimes drive for days to reach workshop destinations, and the art materials in my car go through wide changes in temperature. Certain pigments are heavy, and more likely to separate from the acrylic resins. Put the tub into a sock or cloth bag and swing it around. Count out at least a minute for the time to do this, and almost magically, the paint will be all together again. If this doesn’t work (usually due to age) squeeze all the tube contents out into a small jar with an airtight screw lid, mix with a clean dry palette knife and label. Such separation is a sign that the paint is a high artist quality containing real pigment. So put a sock in it! Your art kit I mean – keeping a sock in with your paint tubes may come in handy. There is more information in my book “Using Chroma Art Materials – Tips and Techniques for Creating Art” available for purchase from the home page on my web site triciareust.com.au.

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Beginning Acrylics Workshop at RAS Feb 18/19 2023

Fourteen enthusiastic and receptive participants gathered this last weekend and explored acrylics, at the studios of the Redcliffe Art Society.

Many exercises completed on the first day covering brush strokes, the use of painting mediums, making acrylic washes, brief colour theory, making splatters, and some techniques such as glazing and dry brushing:

On the second day participants chose a landscape composition and painted, using some of the processes explored in the previous exercises. the choice was from a traditional landscape with abandoned building, or a textured red base (including how to reuse an old work):

or a mauve landscape with separate planes of tone.

Thank you to Valerie and Jennie from RAS for the help in organising the workshop. Also, a huge thankyou to Chroma for allowing the free use of acrylic paints – very much appreciated, as it allowed those who were interested, the freedom to explore acrylic painting with less financial stress!

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High Flight – a miniature work

Yah! Finally have internet again after the storm!

Following on with works I am completing as I tidy up the studio, here is a little one – 10 square centimetres. “High Flight” is acrylic on watercolour paper, with some ink drawing.

Every now and then it is good to just sit (when tired physically from standing at an easel) and let small works evolve.

I am taking this, and other small works recently completed, to a gallery in a few days – cross fingers I will be accepted there – hopefully happy news will be posted soon.

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New Display Bendigo Bank Margate

I have placed a new display of works in the Bendigo Bank in Margate – thank you to Bendigo for the opportunity to have my works on show.

If you visit the bank, let me know what you think of the poems!

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Drawing on Canvas – Feathersoft

Another work from my workshops in NSW in November last year (2022)- I completed this drawing on canvas (a bird in a water environment), “Feathersoft”, where the heron was drawn on a collaged and coloured canvas with pastel. The collage included drawings on paper, and leaves and feathers were printed onto the canvas. This and over 100 works are available as giclee reproductions, in any size on paper or canvas, in limited editions with a certificate of authenticity, through Art House Reproductions. Go to www.buyartnow.com.au/tricia-reust

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Acrylic for Absolute Beginners Workshop Feb 18/19 2023

A weekend workshop for absolute beginners in acrylic painting will be held 18th/19th Feb 2023 at the Redcliffe Art Society, 395 Oxley Avenue in Redcliffe.

We will explore acrylic paint techniques through brush strokes and colour exercises on the first day -some painting techniques covered will include varying brush strokes, textured heavy marks, colour mixing, dry brushing, making splatters etc. On the second day we will put all this together in a larger painting.

This small canvas above (“Near Braidwood”) shows one of the techniques we will be exploring, using bright colours over a textured red base.

For more information and to make a booking, email Valerie Pettingill nee O’Bree <vpettingill@gmail.com>

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Desert Flare

Another small work just finished off as part of the studio clean up. This small canvas was a demo on using prints on tissue paper as collage, and is titles “Desert Flare”.

Atelier Satin Impasto gel was used for the texture – there is a chapter on texture techniques in my book “Using Chroma Art Materials” available through my website and also at outlets through Queensland (list on my website). www.triciareust.com.au

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Demonstration Piece “Hometown Visitor” (Photo Transfer)

As part of a studio clean-up I am finishing off small demo canvases. This one was a demonstration of photo transfer where I had a copy of a drawing of mine and transferred it to the canvas.

The collage elements form a “U” (see explanation in my landscape book) and the title “Hometown Visitor”, as for my last post, is taken from the music that is collaged onto the canvas.

Many of my mixed media techniques are explained and illustrated in my book “Landscape As Story” available through my website, and through the Qld outlets also listed on my site. front and back covers here below:

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