Artist's Palette

Artist's Palette is the perfect magazine for the aspiring and accomplished artist alike. Provides insights on, as well as step-by-step demonstrations from, Australian and international artists. Featuring the latest in news, reviews and products from the art world as well as exhibition previews and reviews.

Artist's Palette is sure to stimulate your artistic sense.

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Corymbia Ficifolia • The art of scratching, etching or engraving lines into a surface is a very old, primitive method of communicating ideas, stories and events. Over the centuries people around the world have left their marks carved into bone, stone, and earth.

Three Primary Colours • Recently, for the fifth time, this artist became Overall Winner at the Art of Sydney Awards; and she has won numerous other awards. Using a very basic palette of colours, she paints almost every day.

Lemons and Limes • The artist chose a simple subject that relied on the lighting to make it interesting. Without the long shadows and highlights, it might not have caught her attention.

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Maintaining Wellness • Here is a man who rediscovered his passion for art at the age of 57 … at St John of God Hospital in the foothills of the Blue Mountains.

Leaves • The idea for this painting came to the artist while he was walking through the bush. He became aware of the various patterns, the variety of colours and the textures of fallen leaves.

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Artistic DNA • When this lady studied her family tree, she found a famous artistic ancestor: Sir Joshua Reynolds. She feels that he has a lot to do with who she is, and her deep love of art … and she believes that art is in her DNA.

Thistle Patch – Freemans Reach • The reference photograph for this painting was selected because the artist really liked the light, the old sheds, and the interesting foreground with the thistles and weeds.

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Main Beach, Straddie – Time to Go Home • Aside from his own artistic skills, this painter has also learned to utilise the considerable skills of his framer … to achieve unique and worthwhile final outcomes.

Heavy Footprint • Like any creative person, this New Zealand artist wants to leave a footprint on the art scene. He also wants to do his special part to keep the popularity of art at a high level.

Go West • The artist used ‘Golden’ liquid acrylics to add highlights and shadows to the faces and clothes in this painting. This was a part of the process which he greatly enjoyed.

Artists’ Paints • One of the most fundamental elements of creativity for many artists is paint. The range of options is enormous. There are numerous manufacturers offering quality products to suit almost every conceivable painting style. Here are some outstanding products from a few of your favourite art materials suppliers.

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.

Altered Vision • Ever since this artist began painting, he has looked at things differently. When he looks over a hill and sees an expanse of coloured flats in the distance, he thinks about how they would look in a painting … and how he would paint them.

Rural Peace • Good quality art materials combined with plenty of imagination and even some judicious use of the palette knife resulted in this large and ambitious painting.