by Evelyn Antonysen | Apr 20, 2013 | Art Classes, demonstrations, painting, Tasmanian artists, watercolour
For the past week with my art classes we have been enjoying using cling wrap to create exciting textures in watercolour. With practise one can have a degree of control over the patterning but as with many of the techniques I prefer, part of the art creativity is the...
by Evelyn Antonysen | Mar 30, 2013 | painting, Tasmanian artists, watercolour
I was Science (and Maths) teacher before I started on my journey as an artist so it is natural that botanical art holds some appeal. (my Uni major was in Environmental Science). Looking through some photos of older art works while preparing for an artist talk at a...
by Evelyn Antonysen | Jan 29, 2013 | All Blogs, Art Classes, watercolour
I try to direct my watercolour classes specifically to the requests of the students. Richard requested trees including how to achieve light trunks within a darker mass of foliage. Instead of doing a larger painting we did some smaller exercises which they should...
by Evelyn Antonysen | Jan 3, 2013 | demonstrations, painting, Tasmanian artists, watercolour
As promised here is a quick small watercolour from yesterday’s photos of an outing to Norfolk Plains. The one chosen (joint decision of my class members) to work from was not Brumbies Creek as I expected but the 2 potato paddocks west of Cressy on the road to...
by Evelyn Antonysen | Nov 28, 2012 | art, Art Classes, Tasmanian artists, watercolour, workshops
Last chance to book in to learn about mark making and find out about grinding your own ink from a solid ink stick, using and making a chop, brush choice and mark making to build fresh, minimialist style works which capture the essence of the subject. ph...
by Evelyn Antonysen | Oct 15, 2012 | All things Coastal, Art Classes, watercolour, workshops, workshops art
[slideshow]I can’t believe that it has been over two weeks aince I have posted. I have been “artying” but also the nice weather has lured me into the garden. On Saturday I took a workshop in free style watercolour at Burnie Makers Workshops. It has...
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