Tabla de contenidos para Issue 39 en Creative Artist

Having loved drawing ever since she could remember, Gayle Newcombe humbly recalls sitting in her room after school, copying anything that inspired her. “We moved around a lot when I was growing up, so art wasn’t always something I could do, but I tried.” Although the interest was there, Gayle did not pick up art for fifteen years, due to having young children, working fulltime and investing her spare time in breeding paint horses. A dare five years later would prove her talent for art had never faded. “I was talking to a work colleague and she dared me to draw all her horses, so I accepted. When I delivered the portraits to her, she was brought to tears!” This was when Gayle realised that art could be a profession…

ACRYLICS Materials • Pre-stretched primed canvas 51x41cm• Selection of small to medium fan brushes• Long haired fine brush• Charcoal pencil• Atelier quality acrylic paints:– Medium Yellow– White– Orange– Olive green– Sky Blue– Blue Black Step One I use a charcoal pencil to sketch in the outline for the hills and trees, which are to be the base for my landscape. With a small fan brush I give a light water wash to enhance the charcoal then I set it aside to let it dry. Step Two Using a medium fan brush and applying a yellow wash, I begin to block in parts of the hill tops and foreground, leaving room for the addition of more colour to be added at a later stage. The effect of this wash when blended…

Materials List • Assorted pastels, mainly Sennelier and Unison• Art Spectrum Colourfix paper – Burgundy Step One I begin by lightly indicating the main elements of the scene, remembering that the main thing I want the viewer to notice is the area of light between the trees. Some blending using my fingers is necessary. I also want to indicate some of the bright areas where the sun is hitting the trees. Step Two Now I add a few tree trunks and emphasise the shape of the background trees, reminding myself that cool colours will recede and warm colours will “Fresh white bread rolled into a pliable ball can be used as an eraser. It takes all the layers back to the paper without smudging.” Step Three I start adding the…

Materials List • Mi tientes tex brown paper in A3• Paper stumps or silicon blenders• Charcoal• Find sandpaper P240 wet/dry• Stylus or pencil• Pastel colours:– Brown– Dark brown– Red brown– Cream– White– Black– Pink– Orange– Green– Yellow– Mauve– Light grey– Dark grey Step One Draw your dog onto either a plain piece of paper and transfer onto the pastel paper or draw straight onto your good paper (depending on your experience). I like to do a line from each corner on my paper and my photo. This helps me stay on the page and keep things in proportion, or I freehand. If you are using another piece of paper to do your initial drawing, to make a transfer, rub charcoal all over the back of your drawing and then tape…

Animal behaviour is driven by instinct. This natural inclination gives them an aptitude for bonding, protecting and instructing their young in the way of survival and food gathering. This parental instinctive bonding by animals is every bit as committed and loving to their little babes as it is with human behaviour, bonding from one generation to another with wisdom of instruction for self preservation for the genetic pool’s survival. We can all relate to our pets’ animal behaviour in line with our own; love, companionship, ownership, jealousy and sharing, just to name a few. Once we make this connection with domestic and wild animals it makes our heart skip a beat. The best tip for capturing animal behaviour images in the wild is to capture your subject in morning or…

I love art. I love seeing what other artists are doing, going to galleries and exhibitions, checking out websites, seeing their work on Facebook, YouTube and elsewhere. However, even an art lover like me can get bored. I get bored when artists haven’t thought about how to give the viewer a great experience. It’s one of the first things I think about when I start work on a new piece. I don’t know if I’m always successful but what I do know is, if my new piece ends up boring, it isn’t for lack of effort. The first thing I try not to do is the same thing that everyone else is doing. That’s the great thing about the online environment. In a very short amount of time I can…

Malcolm Hamilton’s love of art and colour has been an important part of his life as far back as he can remember. At the age of ten and while living in Western Australia, Malcolm had the great fortune to have a teacher who saw his talent. He encouraged Malcolm to enter an all schools painting competition for which, to his astonishment, he was awarded first prize. This was certainly a wonderful accomplishment for a young, aspiring artist who simply painted what he saw, in his own style. From this small beginning, Malcolm continued developing his style, producing works from the colourful Western Australian scenery, flora and beaches as inspiration. “I love to paint in strong clear colours. Colours are all around us but they are at their very best in…

The desire to create pictures has been with Lynda Robinson for as long as she can remember. As a child, she would while away many hours, sketching with a biro or pencil, or splashing around with a lovely watercolour paintbox that she received for Christmas. Having always been fascinated by blank paper, a trip to the newsagent with her mum was a highlight of the weekly expedition into town. “Whilst other children may have wanted to go into a lolly shop or toy shop, I just wanted to head for the newsagent where I could look at blank sketchbooks or sheets of paper and covet them!” During her childhood in the UK, Lynda remembers using pastel at primary school. “We had pastel books consisting of grey paper, with each page…