Brisbane Artists Academé & Brisbane Art Workshops
June/July Newsletter
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START OF A NEW ERA |
Officially from the 1st July 2008, Brisbane Art Workshops is now operating under the banner of Brisbane Artists Academé and I would now like to welcome on board my new co-director and partner, Regina Dolan. Regina and I have been working over the past month bringing this new venture through to its birth and we are excited about the prospects of what the future holds. Regina is a talented artist in her own right and brings with her into this business a wealth of business experience and marketing. To read more about Regina go her www.brisbaneartistsacademe.com.au/gallery/artist26/index.html . To read our shared vision click on the following link http://www.brisbaneartistsacademe.com.au/about.html
We’ve had a wonderful time with Brisbane Art Workshops in its embryonic phase over the past six months, and now its time to usher in a new dimension with Brisbane Artists Academé. This arm will focus on building fundamental drawing and painting skills, and this coupled with Brisbane Art Workshops will make an unbelievable duo for the Artists in Brisbane, the best of both worlds. Both websites will still be operating, however our main website is now http://www.brisbaneartistsacademe.com.au so please make sure you put this address into your safe list to ensure you still receive emails from us.
Through the week and evenings we’ll be focusing on the fundamentals in traditional and contemporary genres, exploring creativity / composition, with exceptionally creative and talented tutors, while the workshop arm will provide an added injection of challenging new directions under the tutelage of professional award winning local, national and international tutors brought in specifically by us to challenge, and in turn, to develop the artist within.
Congratulations to our tutors GRAHAM W. SMITH and ANNA NIBLIC HEGGIE who have both been chosen to be presenters of the Masterclass television art show on Briz31. More details to come.
Another initiative we’ve introduced is that any full-time student with a Student Card can get 10% off earlybird and full price classes.
Exciting new initiative coming up. Please get painting guys. We want paintings, paintings and more paintings all completed and ready for this big event towards the end of the year. There’s a prize which we can’t divulge just yet. More information to come in the next newsletter.
All workshops are filling fast. Clayton J. Beck’s Workshop no.18 has only two places left, and Fu Hong Workshop no.19 has only six places left, and the brochures have only just gone out ! Anyone who’s expressed interest in attending any workshop or term class, please get your deposits in quickly. All courses that commence in July have had their earlybird prices extended as the brochures have been late in coming. Remember first in, best dressed !!
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Evening Workshop No.7 Commences Thursday 7 August 208 (6 weeks) Capturing the Atmosphere of the Landscape: KRISSTIE BYRNNE and JOHN BELL Earlybird Price of $193 Extended This workshop will focus on painting the landscape with particular emphasis on the sky at dusk, working from reference photos in either oils or acrylics. Demonstrations using oil paint and interactive acrylics, these classes are suitable for the beginner to intermediate student. |
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Term Classes – July to November 2008 Commence Friday Afternoons 25 July 2008 (1.30pm to 4.30pm) (16 weeks) CERNAK: A Metaphysical Modernist Approach Earlybird $571 – PRICE EXTENDED Working from a combination of figure and landscape, the central concept of identifying oneself with where you are in time and place, will help to connect your art practice to your life. Using various genres such as Still Life, Figure work, Metroscape and Fantasy will help expand your creative development and evolution as an artist, as you cover aspects such as contour in context of space, deconstruction, identifying colour and its emotional relationship, allegory, symbolism, myths and archetypes. Cernak is a Metaphysical Modernist with experience in East European as well as East Coast Australian art developments. |
Previous Weekend Workshop no.9
Maureen Hanson: The Nude: Colour and the Creative Process
Earlybird price has been extended – price $476 Over the last two months we’ve had some wonderful workshops. We had Maureen Hansen’s Weekend Workshop no.9 which was a huge success. Her way of actually demonstrating such painterly approach to the nude was inspiring … if not daunting. Her courage with regards to placing paint in such an impasto fashion really challenged us to be more liberal with our paint, and seeing the end products were testimony to her superb teaching. If anyone would like to connect with Maureen, she is doing Friday morning classes for seven weeks commencing on Friday 25th July.
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Krisstie Byrnne's nude |
Maureen Hansen the Tattersalls winner starts her nudes like this |
Maureens mountain of paint that she's building |
Nudes nudes everywhere - students on lunch break |
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CHANGE OF START DATE FRIDAY Morning TERM CLASSES with Maureen Hansen NOW COMMENCING Monday 1st August 2008 for six weeks - New Price: $325 Immerse yourself in the art of seeing colour.. and using it to enhance your painting. Popular Australian contemporary colourists such as Margaret Olley, William Robinson and Davida Allen will inform Maureen’s lectures, and she can effectively demonstrate new ways to draw out the form of the objects and create light and dark through using the spectrum of colour. Matisse, Bonnard, Cezanne and the German Expressionists such as Kirshner or Nolde have informed generations of artists who seek to enrich their experience of colour: Maureen can unlock the secrets to why these artists are deemed the MODERN MASTERS and share their insights to successful composition and quality painting through the medium of Still Life. Maureen recently won the prestigious 2008 Tattersall’s Art Prize. |
Previous Weekend Workshop no.11
Anna Niblic Heggie: Transforming Photography into Paintings
To say we were mesmerized by Anna’s relaxed giving approach was an understatement. We stood there in awe as she painted a tonal demonstration with effortless ease and she gave so much time and consideration to each of us, we felt like she was a mother-hen. Her talent speaks for itself. All you have to do is look at her profile and website to see for yourself. The work produced here was just amazing from students who have had very little experience. They learned about colour, composition and tone, and about pulling photographs apart, select sections of the photograph, and then collate them to make one cohesive image. Everyone ended up with amazing work which you can tell from the photographs below.
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Anna Niblic Heggie Demonstrating Tonal Underpainting - Makes it look so easy |
Group photo Anna |
Katarina Schwatt at Anna's Workshop |
Krisstie's tonal underpainting in progress |
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Tanya Burkitt with Painting in Progress. |
Michelle Brown with her painting in progress |
Noreen Burton with her painting |
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Fundamentals of Drawing and Painting – A Dynamic Approach as taught by Anna Niblic Heggie 8 Week Term Class Commences 6th October 2008 Anna has an upcoming course during the day on Mondays commencing 6th October 2008 for eight weeks, so if you want to move your painting into a new level, this is a course for you. Don’t miss it. An intensive course that increases technical knowledge and develops thought processes. A systematic investigation of the subject matter is made using art references, drawing on the traditional teaching methodologies of the fine arts, incorporating a strong grounding in both drawing and painting using a dynamic approach. Visual awareness is increased with the freedom to express more creatively, working from a solid foundation of tonal analysis and colour mixing with technical demonstrations in glazing, scumbling and other paint applications. Anna has won the first prize of the Southern Cross Arts Festival, Ballina several times, exhibits internationally, working from her studio in Lennox Head. |
Previous Weekend Workshop no.11
Terry Bouton: Painting a Traditional Still Life
This is one really dynamic teacher. She walks in with bunches of flowers under her arm and lots of great vases, and before we knew it there were heaps of flowers set up around the room, and soon we were vying for the best spot, from roses to Van Gogh’s sunflowers and drapes. Terry’s enthusiasm and talent for teaching had us all painting up a storm. A few of us had never painted a flower before, and yet the results turned out brilliantly. With Terry continually hovering around us, she made sure we pushed ourselves to our full potential by extending our level of comfort. We were all so surprised how wonderful the outcome was.
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Amanda Gordon's Sunflower Painting in Progress |
Annalisa Krieg's Acrylic Flower Painting in Progress |
Jane Greenland's painting flowers in progress |
Jo Frederiks painting her roses - focusing |
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Terry Bouton giving demonstration of flower painting - amazing start |
Jo Frederiks Sunflower Painting in Progress |
Regina Dolan's Roses Painting in Progress |
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Weekend Workshop no.15 Terry Bouton: Alla Prima Portraiture Terry has an upcoming Weekend Workshop at the end of July (no.15) where she’ll be teaching portraiture, and if she’s anything like she was at the Still Life Workshop, we are all enthusiastic about making certain we don’t miss this opportunity to be there. If you saw her portraits you’d know what we mean, and anyone doing Clayton Beck’s workshop on portraiture, this workshop would be a wonderful way of having an insight into making the most of Clayton’s class, as Terry was a student of his last year when she was in the United States. Earlybird price has been extended for this workshop. |
Life's A Beach with Krisstie Byrnne
These evening classes are currently underway, and Krisstie has been very impressed with the students, who are all beginners. Beginning with a yellow ground, the students started working on their images tonally with a limited palette, and in Week two some are ready to start adding colour. Now into their second week, you can see these paintings are starting to take shape, and at the end of the course we're sure every student will be taking home something they can be very proud of.
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Emily Dixon with her Lighthouse Painting in Progress Lesson #1. |
Jelena Stavric with her Figure Painting Lesson #1 |
Jelena Stavric Painting in Progress Week 2 |
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Emily Dixon's Lighthouse Painting in Progress Week 2 |
Lyn Rosen with Beach Painting in Progress Lesson #1 |
Lyn Rosen's painting in progress Week 2 |
We have a student, Julianne, attending the Clayton J. Beck workshop in September, and she is looking for some short-term accommodation., and we have another student looking for some longer term accommodation. If anyone would like to offer these students accommodation, or if you are looking for some accommodation yourself and would like someone with which to share costs, please contact krisstie@brisbaneartistsacademe.com.au or krisstie@brisbaneartworkshops.com.au with your details so these can be forwarded on.
Congratulations are extended to our student, Deb Parker, for her first exhibition. Often intrigued by the Australian landscape, Deb Parker’s paintings are a blend of traditional landscape style and contemporary flair. Focusing on nature’s design, form, colour, and texture, Debbie uses strong colour contrasts to suggest natural forms and lighting. Her expressionist approach offers a snapshot or vision of her experiences with nature – from the crisscross patterns of light filtering through a palm front, to the burnished slope of dry inland creek, to tall trees gracing the cool of a billabong. Shadows and glints of sunshine are repeseented with bold strokes – the end result being a beautiful, almost dream-like portrayal of the Australian bush. If you’d like to attend Deb’s exhibition, details are as follows:
Solo Exhibition Title: Memories of Trees
Opening night: Friday 27 June 2008. 6-9pm. Exhibition continues until 19 July 2008.
Images available online at http://www.doggett.com.au
Deb Parker's Testimonial:
“The quality and experience of the tutors of both of the portrait and figurative workshops and the drawing groups I have done at ‘Brisbane Artist’s Academy’ have helped me to overcome problems with structural drawing and capturing the likeness of the sitter – problems I’ve struggled with for some time. It’s the friendly atmosphere and care that made me feel at ease. “
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*** TUTOR’S EXHIBITIONS ***
Opening night: Friday 5 July 2008. 5-7pm by Sandra Conte.
Exhibition continues until 27 July 2008.
Images available online at http://www.robynbauergallery.com.au/
Desley Rolph will be presenting a solo show of her lyrical and evocative landscapes in the Robyn Bauer Gallery in July 2008. A resident of Queensland's Sunshine Coast, Rolph is an artist who has an intuitive and original response to the Australian landscape. Her mercurial interpretations of the spirituality and mystique of the wide spaces of Australian land have become highly collectible by art lovers in Australia and overseas. Her energetic canvases are known for their rich luminous colours and surfaces and further engage the viewer with unusual compositions and her distinctive viewpoints. One can imagine soaring over the landscape from above like her trademark Min Min light figure. Rolph interprets this unusual natural phenomenon as a female spirit who floats about at night, revisiting sacred places or on a journey into the afterlife. Rolph is the recipient of many awards and most recently in 2007 a work was selected as finalist in the prestigious Heysen Prize for Australian landscape. Her work is represented in collections throughout Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Europe.
She is currently working on a portrait of gold medal winning athlete Cathy Freeman.
FINALLY …
Well students, this is our first newsletter and we look forward to a long, happy and fulfilling relationship. If we’re excited then you guys will reap the benefits, because we will bring you the best of the best, and we encourage you to explore your own creativity and talent to its utmost to develop the Artist Within. Go for it guys!
Cheers, Krisstie & Regina
Co-Directors
Brisbane Artists Academé
