December ART ESSENCE NEWSLETTER Wide Bay Gallery 228 ADELAIDE STREET, MARYBOROUGH 4650 ABN 81 409 856 484 PH 07 41221858. [email protected]www.artmaterialsupplies.com This year’s shop closing times: Last day December 24 th 2018 Open again January 14 th 2019 Want to be a Member of our Art Essence Club?? Cost is $15 per year. You receive a discount loyalty card that entitles you to 10% discount on products and framing (unless already marked down ) Plus MEMBERS ONLY in-store specials. (please keep an eye on your membership renewal dates) Christmas Hampers campaign continues where members can go into the draw to win one of several hampers brimming with art materials. For every $100 spent in one purchase between now and the Draw Date: Thursday 20 December qualifies for a free entry into the draw. Membership must be current to participate. The treasure chest of goodies will be on display in store this month. OUR FAMOUS IN-HOUSE HANDS ON DEMONSTRATIONS Demonstrations are held at the Wide Bay Gallery each week on a Wednesday afternoon and repeated again on a Thursday afternoon to cater for numbers. Afternoon tea is provided. Please bring along an apron and your art journal for notes and working in. All other materials supplied. Where: Wide Bay Gallery 228 Adelaide Street, Maryborough Cost: $25.00 per person (unless otherwise specified) Payable on arrival. A maximum of 10 students per class – so book early. Bookings essential: 07 4122 1858 or [email protected]A discount of 15% is applicable on products demonstrated and purchased on the day.
This year’s shop closing times: Last day December 24th 2018 Open again January 14th 2019
Want to be a Member of our Art
Essence Club?? Cost is $15 per year. You receive a discount loyalty card that entitles you to 10% discount on products
and framing (unless already marked down)
Plus MEMBERS ONLY in-store specials. (please keep an eye on your membership
renewal dates)
Christmas Hampers campaign
continues where members can go into the draw to win one of several hampers brimming with art materials. For every $100 spent in one purchase between now and the Draw Date: Thursday 20 December qualifies for a free entry into the draw. Membership must be current to participate. The treasure chest of goodies will be on display in store this month.
OUR FAMOUS
IN-HOUSE HANDS ON
DEMONSTRATIONS Demonstrations are held at the Wide Bay Gallery each week on a Wednesday afternoon and repeated again on a Thursday afternoon to cater for numbers. Afternoon tea is provided. Please bring along an apron and your art journal for notes and working in. All other materials supplied.
Where: Wide Bay Gallery
228 Adelaide Street,
Maryborough
Cost: $25.00 per person (unless otherwise specified)
We are discontinuing the in-store supply of Winsor & Newton artist
grade Oils. So, if you want to cash in on this ridiculous special BE QUICK, colours are running
out!!
“OLD LABLE SALE”!
Any Winton or Daler Rowney Georgian student oils
40% off any specially marked labels!!
That’s a HUGE SAVING!
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S many of our regulars
here at Wide Bay Gallery know,
we are big advocates of using
your Art Journals or Visual
Diaries; preferably every day.
Here we would like to keep you
motivated and find inspiration to
keep you on track.
So stay tuned as we help guide you with
websites, videos, inspiring artists and
online courses to give your creativity and
self expression a kick into high gear!
I will be scouring the internet to help find you the inspiration and projects you need to get you working in your sketchbooks, journals and visual diaries. This is
where your creativity and your unique ideas
will come from. It will also help you gain the
skills and confidence to take it to the next
level – onto a bigger canvas, board or even a
wall!
Now, everyone will have a different
inspiration trigger, so I hope to find yours!
Our aim is to get you as excited
about it art we are.
December ART ESSENCE NEWSLETTER
Let’s continue.... This month I will encourage you to
scribble!! Well... maybe while you are
scribbling you are practicing your line
making with both pen and pencil.
Try out:
Different grades of pencils
Thickness of pen tips including
brush tip
Pressure light & heavy
Angles of your pen/pencil as well as
your hand and grip
Labelling your exercises
Shading lightest light to darkest
dark and back again
Layering your tonal values in light
layers
Different paper surfaces, tones and
weights – see what suits your style
Drawing tools – paper
stumps/blenders, erasers – are not
just for mistakes! They make
brilliant blending tools too.
YouTube Artists I can recommend:
Proko: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMC0Cx3Uk84 Walid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Yed7jSHok Draw with Jazza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hcZDNH3_Wc
Karen Hull is a fulltime artist who specialises in photorealistic work in a range of subjects and mediums, but particularly using coloured pencils and mixed media. She has Master status with the Pencil Art Society, CPX status with the Coloured Pencil Society of America and is a Signature member of the International Society of Scratchboard Artists along with several other organisations and societies. Her work can be found in both public and private collections around the world; she has illustrated two children’s books for Hachette Australia and her artwork features on several coins commissioned for Coin Club of Australia.
Check out her amazing website filled with hyper-real artwork here: https://www.karenhullart.com/The-Artist.php
Speed drawing of an amazingly realistic artwork of a tabby, done using scratch art, inktense pencils, coloured pencils and ink on Scratchboard:
https://vimeo.com/105203242
Karen also has a full length video class on creating photorealistic portraits in coloured pencil. Within the Craftsy platform you can interact with Karen, upload progress images of your own portrait and get individualised feedback and critiques.
For more information on Karen’s classes follow the link HERE.
CLASSES, COMPETITIONS
AND EXHIBITIONS
Saturday Morning
Journaling Class: 1
st & 15
th 9.00am –
11.30am. We will be
wrapping up our
journaling classes
after December 15th
.
So if you are interested
in checking it out before the end of the
year... book in asap! Cost is $25.00 plus
bring your own quality, hard-cover,
A4’ish journal. Mixed media journals are preferable but not
essential.
SUE’S ART ANTICS: Every Friday
Morning @ Aldershot Hall. A great
bunch of artists get together under the
tutorage of Sue Crickitt. Bookings 0429
968817. $12.00 per class. Bring your
project and your paints.
BRETT A. JONES
FREEHAND DRAWING WORKSHOPS The next six-week courses will be running from 10:00am to 1:00pm, every Sunday from 20th January to 24th February, 2019 at Gallery 5 (H.B.A.S), 5 Sandy St. Urangan, Hervey Bay. or... every Monday from 21st January to 25th February, 2019 at Blue Shades Motel (conference room), 35 Ferry St. Maryborough. Cost for course including all materials and equipment is $180. For more details and examples of past students work go to www.seaofpain.com Or contact Brett (07)41 287682 or 0401 543327 or email [email protected]
SCULPTURE CENTRAL Alpha Plantation Road Sunday 2nd December 10.00-4.00pm Voucher offer 20% discount on purchases (available from Wide Bay Gallery)
Holding or hosting art classes or events
and want to advertise it (free) here? We
want our artists to stay connected and
up to date on what’s going on in our
region. Let us know and we will help
spread the word for you!
ONLINE
COMPETITIONS: FOLLOW THE LINKS TO ENTER AND TO
FIND OUT MORE (N.B. some online competitions require a high
resolution digital image only and others require a physical delivery and collection of your artwork –
check the fine print!)
John Villiers Outback
Art Prize 2019 Outback Regional Gallery - Winton Qld. Entries open now. Entries close Friday 1st Feb 2019. Prizes total $13,000 (acquisitive). First prize $10,000. This year’s theme: Outback – a Sense of Place. More information and entry forms go to: http://www.matildacentre.com.au/Outback-Regional-Art-Gallery
The Young Archie
Competition 2019 The Young Archie competition invites budding artists between the ages of 5 and 18 to submit a portrait. The portrait must be of a person who is special to you – someone who is known to you and who knows you and plays a significant role in your life. Schools are encouraged to run a competition and enter the top winners. Online entry form and further information will be available January 29th 2019. https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/young-archie/enter/
The Wynne Prize Entry date: April 2019
Entry fee: $50
Prize: $50,000 first prize, $5000 Trustees’
Watercolour Prize, $1000 John and Elizabeth
Newman Pring Memorial Prize. The Wynne
Prize is awarded annually for the best landscape
painting of Australian scenery in oils or
watercolours or for the best example of figure
sculpture by Australian artists. It was first
awarded in 1897 and is judged by the trustees of
the Art Gallery of NSW. Many entries in the
competition have gone on to become icons of
Australian landscape art, displayed in national
exhibitions and public galleries.
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/wynne/
The Archibald Prize 2019 Entry date: Entries delivered 9th - 13th April Entry fee: $50.00 Prize: $100,000 first prize, $1500 Packing Room prize, $3500 ANZ People’s Choice Award The Archibald Prize is a celebration of artists in Australia, judged by trustees of the Art Gallery of NSW. Definitely one of the most well-known Australian art competitions, the prize is awarded to the best portrait ‘preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in art, letters, science or politics’. https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2018/
Official Shop Mascot/Knee-Licker and Meet & Greet Committee, One-eyed Ex-con (bailed from Pound, twice)
Storm Season freaks me out!
Sue Crickitt – Customer Service,
Brush Guru, Tutor & Folk Art
Specialist, Mum to
Nathaniel.
Ewalina Powell – Bachelor of Arts,
Oil and Calligraphy Specialist,
Tutor and Customer Care
Nanny to Alex Apprentice boatie (2nd
mate)
Tammy Martin – Pastel & Acrylic Specialist, The best we have in I.T. Cos-player, Tutor & Co-Pilot, Equine, Dragon & Elf Expert Owner of aforementioned escapee
