Table of contents for Issue 40 in Creative Artist

OILS Materials List • Eraldo stretched canvas 76cm x 122cm• Art Spectrum Refined Linseed Oil• Art Spectrum Pure Gum Turpentine• Various size flat brushes (Bristle and Taklon)• Art Spectrum oil paints:– Titanium White– Pthalo Blue– Lemon Yellow– Yellow Ochre– Burnt Sienna– Permanent Rose• Winsor & Newton oil paints:– French Ultramarine– Cerulean Blue Hue– Cobalt Blue– Cadmium Yellow Pale Hue– Cadmium Red Hue Step One Mix linseed oil and turps in a glass jar and apply thinly on the blank canvas with a large flat bristle painting brush. Wipe off any excess oil with a cloth or paper towel. This preparation allows you to apply oil paint thinly and to fix the drawing line easily. While the canvas is still wet with oil mixture, start drawing roughly with small amounts of…

Combining art, fashion, science, and conservation, the revelatory exhibition Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures brings together—for the first time—a newly discovered drawing by Jean Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) and some 14 of his paintings that have been identified with it including the Gallery’s own Young Girl Reading (c. 1769). Fragonard is considered among the most characteristic and important French painters of his era, and this series casts light on the development of his career, the identity of his sitters and patrons, and the significance of his innovative imagery. Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures and the fully illustrated catalog that accompanies it not only present new art-historical and scientific research into this series but also examine the 18th-century Parisian world in which these paintings were created. Covered with 18 thumbnail-sized sketches and apparently annotated…

Materials List • • A3 MDF board, triple primed with Gesso• HB pencils• Kneaded eraser• Clean clothes/rags• Medium• Brushes:– Hog bristle brushes (#2 and #8)– Taklon Mop (½” and 1”)– Detail brushes (round #0)– Long liner (#0)– Fan brush (#1)– Filbert (#4)• Artist quality oil paints:– Titanium White– Spectrum Yellow– Yellow Ochre– Alizarin Crimson– Spectrum Red– Viridian Green– Burnt Umber– Mars Black– French Ultramarine Blue Step One I have a variety of reference photos of the sitter before I start. I choose a photo which best represents the personality of my cousin and which pose works aesthetically. Step Two I start to draw the plains of the head, shoulders and chest area. After this I add the facial features, starting with the eyes and working my way down to other…

Yoshie Hughes was born in Hokkaido, Japan and came to Australia in 1996 for a working holiday where she ended up starting a new family and a career as an artist on the Gold Coast. While growing up in Japan, Yoshie worked at the family business of a bakery. She believes this is where her art skills cultivated, helping her family decorate cakes, showcases, shop fronts and design advertisements. In 1996, Yoshie came to Australia with the intention of staying for 12 months on a working holiday, however within a few months she met her husband Tony. She now has three children, two dogs and a cat, and of course, her supportive husband. “I enjoy my life here and I believe that the Gold Coast is the best place to…

Materials List • Double thick stretched canvas• Charcoal• Raphael brushes: Size 18, 14 and 8• Westart riggers: Size 1 and 2• Art Spectrum oil paint:– Cerulean Blue – Langridge oil paints:– Cad Yellow – Cad Orange – Cad Red Light – Burnt Sienna – Burnt Umber – Ultramarine Blue – Cobalt Blue – Gamblin oil paints:– Dioxicean Purple Step One The canvas I am using is a reasonably large piece, 120cm X 92cm double thick stretched canvas, so the best thing to do is get some colour on it before you start sketching out your subject. I did this by using an 8cm flat brush to move the mix of Burnt Sienna and Perlyne Crimson around the canvas. After doing this I wiped it over with a soft cloth, just…

This fall, The Frick Collection will present Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Renaissance Masterpieces Restored, a focused exhibition on two recently conserved and rarely seen paintings by the celebrated artist Paolo Veronese (1528–1588), Saint Jerome in the Wilderness and Saint Peter Visiting Saint Agatha in Prison. While the paintings are known to scholars, their remote location in a church in Murano, an island in the lagoon of Venice, has made them difficult to study. Saint Jerome in the Wilderness has been exhibited outside the church only once—in 1939, in the Paolo Veronese exhibition at Ca’ Giustinian, in Venice—while Saint Peter Visiting Saint Agatha in Prison has not left since being installed there in the early nineteenth century. The exhibition, on view October 24, 2017, through March 11, 2018, will provide…

Mario Sukkar is a young Sydney based artist with exemplary talent. He recalls first becoming interested in art at the tender age of five, “I would draw cartoons which led me to draw realistic portraits by the age of eight.” At this time, Mario drew portraits of his parents, celebrities and Saints. At the age of 11, he started painting. “My mum bought me paints, little brushes and a little easel. I painted my first portrait of St Charbel.” Mario would practise art in his studio every day, experimenting with colours and techniques, and painting both portraits and landscapes. A career that started young, Mario received his first commission at the age of 12. Since then he has entered countless exhibitions and competitions. Reminiscing back to where it all began,…