by Evelyn Antonysen | Nov 8, 2014 | All Blogs
Anyone who follows my art knows that I love experimenting. For some time I have been trying to paint my memories of when I could go into caves. Karst geology is fascinating and we have wonderful examples of Karst system caves in Tasmania. I am rarely happy with my...
by Evelyn Antonysen | Sep 27, 2014 | All Blogs
On Friday I took a small workshop on introduction to abstract art in acrylics. We discussed abstract art and googled images to see the diversity and degrees of abstraction. This is a painting I did on canvas board. “Winter”… the mountains just...
by Evelyn Antonysen | Sep 19, 2014 | All Blogs
Today I have been practising “mark making” in preparation for a workshop I will be taking with fellow artist, Jan Marinos, with special needs students. We will be getting the youngsters to explore making marks on various oriental papers. We will also...
by Evelyn Antonysen | Aug 2, 2014 | All Blogs
These photos are of patterns created by moving water at the coast, and one of clouds.They have not been altered apart from a little tweaking of levels/ contrast. When teaching about abstract art (painting), many of the students initially had the idea that the artwork...
by Evelyn Antonysen | May 23, 2014 | All Blogs, art, Tasmanian artists, watercolour
The flame robin is one of our beautiful, colourful small birds in Tasmania. Although we do not get them in our garden, a friend, Natalia, in nearby Wilmot has resident, chubby, “robin red breasts”. Natalia, took the photo from which I have painted this...
by Evelyn Antonysen | May 6, 2014 | All Blogs
I said I would post something re my thoughts on the term “encouragement” award in an art comp. I recently received one of these for a work I entered in a local exhibition. It was a lovely surprise, especially as there was some great work in the exhibition....
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