"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them you're a mile away and you have their shoes."
Tutor feature: Myléne Hillam
 Myléne Hillam (pronounced Millane) is a mixed media artist living in Queensland. She is a sought after designer and teacher who travels the country demonstrating and teaching a variety of art and crafting media at retail and trade shows. She also teaches a broad range of workshops which include an introduction to resin bangle making, jewellery making and mixed media art. Her work is regularly featured in jewellery and general craft magazines throughout Australia and the US.
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In This Issue
Featured Listings
 ArtWorkshops Australia
Joe Furlonger
Location: Brisbane
Queensland
La Grande Parade
A workshop in any and many media. Bring camera, video, charcoal, paper, pencil and water colours. We will add lighting, costume, atmosphere and decoration to the models (two).
4-5 September 2010
 Kenilworth Celebrates!
Location: Kenilworth
Queensland
Learn from ten great tutors in four day courses at Kenilworth Celebrates! Art Festival. Enjoy the country experience of the Mary Valley in the Sunshine Coast hinterland.
27 September to 1 October 2010
Featured Books
Learning to See Creatively
Almost everyone can "see" in the conventional sense, but developing photographic vision takes practice. This work helps photographers visualize their work, and the world, in a whole new light. This revised and rewritten guide takes a radical approach to creativity.
Art Escapes
Daily Exercises and Inspirations for Discovering Greater Creativity and Artistic Confidence
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced artist, "Art Escapes" provides the ideas and the encouragement you need to discover greater creativity and artistic confidence, even when you're short of time.
Facebook
Join us on Facebook. Come and share your artwork with us.
Exhibition
Mark Kersten and Penny Small have a joint art exhibition
- 'Swamp Birds and Dolly Bird' at Borrodell on the Mount in Orange.
Tuesday May 25th to July 3rd
Location: 298 Lake Canobolas Road, Orange.
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Workshop focus: STURT Winter School
5 - 9 July 2010
Spend a whole week absorbed in a creative pursuit at Sturt Winter School from 5th to 9th July, 2010. A total of 14 courses are being offered and places are still available in a number of them:
Acrylic painting for beginners with Sara Farmer – begin painting with acrylics using simple compositions and developing skills in tone and volume, colour mixing and paint application, learn how to use an art diary and find your personal style. Sara Farmer is a regular exhibitor of her work and teaches both adults and children.
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Workshop review: David Lake Landscape Workshop – Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
 I was impressed with David Lake’s exhibition David Lake: Feet of Clay, at the Bathurst Regional Gallery - March to May. His interesting works full of light and extended horizons capture the big skies, mood and atmosphere of the Australian landscape. He has been inspired by the scorched earth and clear horizon lines of far west NSW, utilising this subject matter and transmuting it into works of art.
When I realised that he was running a workshop in Bathurst for one day, I joined the waiting list. Luckily I got in when someone cancelled out.
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Calendar of Events
Coming soon! New events calendar that will list individual workshops and classes and provide you with more details to enable you to make more informed decisions about your art tuition.
View calendar for: June 2010 :: July 2010 :: August 2010 :: September 2010 :: October 2010 |
Latest Tips and Tricks
Agata Lelek's Top Ten Tips
- Allow some time before actual start to look at your model and absorb as much of the information that’s in front of you as you can, the painting will get easier.
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New Online Shop coming soon...
Are you finding it hard to find the time to attend an art workshop?
Here's a great selection of art lesson DVDs to help you stay inspired until you have the time for some live workshops or classes. As a special introductory offer these DVD are $45.95 with FREE SHIPPING anywhere in Australia.
Please note: You will need Adobe Flash Player to view these video clips. You can download the FREE Adobe Flash Player here.
Order Now - download the order form here (PDF) or email order@bluebanksia.com and we'll send it to you.
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Chit Chat
 Boundaries… the edges between living things. So extremely important and yet so misunderstood and so easily dismissed. I am somewhat obsessed with them. In nature I am able to observe boundaries between trees, grasses, rocks and the negative spaces around them, and the edge between water and land. And then reflections muddle it all up as they mingle the two edges. Here is a photo of the edge of a mangrove estuary. I am in the process of working on a number of paintings inspired by this. No time to talk now must get into these paintings...
Teresa
Keep an eye out!
Coming soon. New listing options for:
- art workshop and lesson providers
- art suppliers
- art galleries and art societies
- art competitions
- art exhibitions
Stephanie
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