Australian How To Paint

Australian How To Paint magazine chooses a topic or style of art each issue and gives you a comprehensive guide for you to develop your skills. Over the series we will cover all major painting technques plus popular paint ideas.

My Creative World • My life is, and always has been, one filled with creativity. I relate to the lyric from the Sound of Music that says “my heart wants to sing every song it hears”. Perceiving meaning in the world around me I feel compelled to draw, savouring its richness as I do.

Goodnight Quinn • Janelle captures the beauty of her three-day-old son, Quinn.

MATERIALS

Wildlife Enthusiasm • This talented lady prefers to work with pastels and pastel pencils. She is most comfortable with the pastel medium because it allows her to layer colour and create detail quickly and effectively.

Feline Friend • According to this pastellist, fur can be a little difficult – as it grows in a few directions around the face. Her method is to lay down a foundation of colour, working in the direction that the fur grows.

Portrait of an Irishman • Capturing the spirit and the likeness of a person through portraiture takes a significant level of skill and understanding. This clever lady does it with pastels.

MASTER HINTS AND TIPS

Mixed Motivations • Victoria’s Helen Miles finds her involvement in art therapeutic, frustrating, provoking, tiring, and incredibly exciting … but above all, art is an integral part of who she is.

Autumn Beauty • This peaceful country scene resplendent with autumn tones was chosen to demonstrate the artist’s mastery of pastels.

ARTIST’S HINTS AND TIPS

The Desire to Experiment • Near Moree in north-western New South Wales, this gifted ‘man on the land’ nurtures a passion for painting the wild plains that surround him – while capturing their many moods and characters.

Images of Heat and Dust • Stock workers on Australia’s dusty cattle stations inspire this artist. This largely pictorial article shows some of the steps he follows in producing his works of art.

The Art of Eltham • A small country town in Victoria is home to this clever lady who likes to do some form of creative work each day … evening if that simply means reading a book about art.

Colour Burst • So lifelike you can almost smell their enchanting scent … these roses rendered in soft and hard pastels invite you to treasure their colourful beauty.

MATERIALS

Elena Parashko Gallery • Impressive art galleries are located all over this country, hosting and promoting the works of Australia’s diverse exponents of art. How to Painte magazine showcases a broad selection of these venues. In this Issue, we focus on the unusual Elena Parashko Gallery in suburban Sydney.

Master Pastellist • With no desire to produce a photographic record of his subject matter, this talented man likes to contemporise the landscape beyond a realist approach … and still retain a conceptual delusion of reality.

Yeppoon Ebb • Within days of it being finished, this painting gained a Commended award in the ‘Pastel of the Year’ at the Pastel Society of Australia end of year competition.

The Path Back • How $10 and gut instinct rekindled the artistic fire for this pragmatic artist.

Surf's Up • Skilled sketching creates a powerful piece of moving artwork with perspective, depth and heaviness.

MATERIALS

ARTIST’S HINTS AND TIPS