As I walked out

this morning to do some shopping, there were leaves on the path

Artist book - initial thoughts (one)

There are two 'themes' I am looking at. The first is scanned clothes.
Scanned in colour, then set to black and white, then filled with colour,contrast then adjusted.

Drawing exercises

It has been too long between drawing. Have been distracted by my History ans Context assignment.
But I am getting back to it.
Copy of Megan Evans' lithograph, and a bee from The Anatomy of Insects and Spiders

Art Show at the Exhibition Building

Spent Saturday afternoon browsing through the Art Fair.

It was worth while going to see Port Jackson Press artists.
Have put these in my list of artists I must remember

Belinda Fox Jason Benjamin Adrian Kellett
Louise Thomlinson
In particular I like Belinda Fox's work

Sketching at the NGV

Sketching in the Oceanic section of the NGV. The shadows in the gallery are great - by the end of the 2 hours I felt I knew these statues quite well!

Australia Pacific Print & Printmaking Database

What a wonderful discovery.
I have spent days and hours in the State Library, at the women's art registry and on the web, looking for a lino cut created by Ailsa O'Connor in 1954.

I was about to give up when I stumbled on this site.

http://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/

The information on the site says it all!

Prints and printmaking Australia Asia Pacific provides a gateway for information on printed images from Australia and the Asia Pacific region.

The focus of the site is prints and printmaking by artists from Australia, Aboriginal Australia, the Torres Strait Islands, Papua New Guinea, Maori and Pakeha Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific region including , New Caledonia, Nuie, Samoa, Kiribati, and the Solomon Islands. The site also includes references to prints and printmaking in China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.

Based on the Australian print collection at the National Gallery of Australia there is free online access to over 22,000 images. The databases can be searched by artist, subject or print techniques such as etching, woodcut, wood-engraving, linocut, lithograph, screenprint, monotype and other print related processes such as posters and artists books. Index to online information on printmakers, print workshops, print publishers, print galleries and public and private collections.

Drawing at NGV

Attended a class at the NGV with Marco Luccio.
We drew The Banquet of Cleopatra.
It was extremely challenging. It is always amazing to realise what you do not see initially.
Here is a detail from the massive picture.