Tutor feature: Shar Feil-Moorman

Warm Glass

Shar Feil-Moorman is an internationally recognised Glass Artist, with numerous installations in private residences, commercial buildings and public art displays.

Shar has extensive experience in large and small scale glass (traditional and contemporary) that provides Shar with the knowledge to problem solve within the constraint of the medium. Read more >

Workshop focus: Murrumbidgee School of Creative Arts

Easter School: 23-26 April

The Murrumbidgee School of Creative Arts (MSCA) is a creative art event that draws together artists and tutors from across Australia and beyond!

Held in beautiful Wagga Wagga, the MSCA has made a name for itself by offering a variety of professionally tutored creative art workshops, suitable for the beginner right through to the experienced participant. Whether your fascination is for fine arts, textiles, sculpture, photography or glass art there is something to tempt everyone. Read more >

Calendar of Events

The next three months are jam packed with a large variety of workshops available for you to join and be creative.

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Workshop review: National Art Summer School - Marco Luccio

"The Art of Drypoint"

The National Art School (Sydney) ran a Summer School from 12-16 January. Cindy Goode attended The Art of Drypoint workshop conducted by Melbourne artist Marco Luccio. Read Cindy's review of the workshop.

"Marco is a great teacher, he was very well structured and planned the entire week of classes perfectly. Additionally he was quite conscious of where a student was at in their level of skill and easily and effortlessly altered his time and talks to individuals throughout the week."  Read more >

Latest Tips and Tricks

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  The art of the woodcut print has a long tradition particularly in the Chinese and Japanese cultures. Woodcut printing is capable of a wide range of effects from the subtle, poetic, multicolor, detailed prints of the Oriental artists to the bold, expressive, graphic, black and white prints of the German Expressionist artists in theearly twentieth century. Read more >

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  Oil pastels are a fairly new art medium. In the mid 1920's, the first soft pastel was developed. Called Cray-pas, this soft pastel was considered an upgrade from crayons. It wasn't until 1947, upon the request of the artists Pablo Picasso and Henri Goetz, the materials manufacturer Sennelier set about to create a soft, artists' quality pastel. Read more >
  

Competition Winner

Marie Haass from Perth is our lucky winner!

As part of our launch in November 2008 we ran a competition for a book prize for new subscribers to blueBanksia’s newsletter.

I am very pleased to announce that the lucky winner of the competition was Marie Haass from Perth, Australia. Marie is originally from France and has lived and worked in Perth for the last 20 years. She has been very active in the Perth art community as an artist, art lecturer and art manager.

Photo Caption: Marie Haass at the "The great laughing mutant" workshop held in Perth in 2008, during the international puppet conference

Congratulation Marie, we are sure you will enjoy your prize and find great inspiration in this wonderful book “STUDIO: Australian painters on the nature of creativity” Photographed by R Ian Lloyd.

Warmest Regards

Stephanie Champion and Teresa Spedone