Two major events for me artistically, I got selected by an online gallery in Sydney to be represented by them The Whitfield Collection and finally this group show SHINE LOUD in Brisbane is now happening in August...and the year is not over!...
August 6th 2022, from 2 to 4 pm is the official opening of SHINE LOUD a small group exhibition of people like me who are so called "different" . Art From The Margins Gallery 136 Brunswick st Fortitude Valley, in...
July and August are very busy suddenly two shows one online in Paddington Aspire Gallery large size artworks and one is a group show in Art from The Margins Gallery Fortitude Valley and not to forget a new presence on an online...
Not very enthusiastic about anything I went to the art meeting on Wednesday happy nevertheless to see my art and collogue friends. I was challenged to create a masterpiece by getting inspired by one of the great masters. I choose a sketch...
Adversity have two effects: 1- depression and 2-stronger determination. Each time I can see we are taking as a collective more time to get back up to start again and I am no different. So I am taking it easy...
Last Wednesday I went for the first time since the pandemic to a face to face life drawing session. How exciting! What a pleasure after 2 years of drawing online. Two models were advertised for this event and I was...
“Visual Oxymoron”... Because still-life is diametrically opposite to Daniele’s gestural figurative expressionist style, the exercise proved to be a challenge. Through a combination of moving image impression analysis, new wave fusion cooking trends and her own touch, Daniele's still-life genre is redefine for the 21st Century visual reality.
I draw regularly from model since 1974 and every body is different. I had phases such as painstakingly hyper figurative to gestural. Personalities transcribed by a single line which tells a story. Reading a model's body, feeling their emotions, being close to their...
I was happily sketching and someone told me why are you angry? I certainly don't feel angry so I looked back at my sketches and I see no anger. Then I am told that my self portrait looks angry! Self...
Sydney is again in lockdown so I did online drawing with Frank and the gang from Last Peak Life Drawing. The theme Stepford Wife with Carly as model. as usual I do my 30 seconds line drawing and few days...
Naked Nude /Manning Regional Art Gallery New South Whales, Australia Strategy for entering the right competition: 1-Check out if it is nation wide or state wide and think about your cost to send the artwork and get it back ....
Often I use water-soluble graphite and use it to transfer images from paper to paper or else. Some papers have funny reactions once wet because of ZERO absorption capacity but allows the mot fantastic images . Then I play completing...
It is with joy and a certain pride that I announce that a second artwork being selected for an award in less than 3 months. Winter Dish expressionist still life has been selected to be in the Moreton Bay Art Award a yearly...
