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October 15th, 2019

10/15/2019

Bustrip to Murwillumbah's Galleries

You can meet us there in your own car, or come with us on the bus. 12 people bus trip cost $20 per person (for bus hire). E-mail Martina if you want to join.

We are meeting on the 8th of November 2019 at the Hinterland Baptist Church (you can leave your car there), at 8am and will be back around 3pm to 4pm.

405 Hinkler Drive, Worongary, QLD 4213

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We Are Doing it Again!

11/15/2018

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End of year art trip to Brisbane at 9am - 3pm in front of art studio in Highland Park. There 12 seats available on bus to Brisbane. Or you can take your own car to be free of time. For bookings e-mail Martina.

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Brisbane Art Students Tour

10/2/2017

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What a day! We met at the Baptist Hinterland Church, so that we could all go together in a 12 person minibus. And what a pleasant drive, the weather was great and traffic much better than expected.

Our first stop was at the Lethbridge Gallery which showed the acrylic work of Scott McDougall.

Next stop GOMA, although quite disappointing, as we hadn’t enough time to see anything significant, we have had a relaxing lunch at the GOMA’s coffee shop, enjoying each others companies and city views on the river.

We then had our last stop at the Art Shed to enjoy a free 2 hour demonstration with Lyn Diefenbach. Lyn shared her knowledge while painting an Australian native scene in oil. It is always amazing to watch professional artists at work, that alone would have been worth going.

Here are just a few points interesting points we have learned today:

Lyn uses mostly transparent colours, and only sparingly white. She pointed out, what I tell my students over and again. Don’t just use white in areas where an object is hit by light. Most colours turn first into a variety of other colours before one would add white. Green, so orange and red looks far more realistic if you first use hues of yellow instead of white.
She uses mostly filbert brushes
White always has to be used carefully as it steals saturation of colours.
Lyn pointed out that many areas of a painting have to be greyed down, subdued colours. This not only harmonises the painting but also lifts the brighter colours of the page.
She mostly works from stained canvases in earthly colours as a base and "inks in", by using thinned down oil to imprint outlines of the image.
Lyn is using the grid method for complex works.
Squinting gets rid of colour and exposes the values. As I have told you many times, Lyn also addressed that values are by far more important than the colour itself. That is why even colourblind people can produce great work, even if the colours aren’t realistic.
Lyn makes sure to sculpt with her brush by painting from many different direction. A picture looks staged and boring if all brush marks run from the same direction.
We’ve learned that transparent colours in oil leave a shine, whereas opaque paint remains matt.
She explained that in Australia a Northern Light is more suitable for studio lighting, whereas in America or Europe Southern Light would be better.

If you remember any more interesting facts we have heard or seen, I would love to hear from you, so that I can add it to the list.

We definitely have to do this again.

Martina

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Let's Go Together

9/22/2017

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Let's Go Together

As promised, I have organised a very special day for my students.
A trip to Brisbane, having lunch together, share good times, see art and go to a FREE Painting Demonstration with Lyn Diefenbach at the Art Shed.

A Day of Art in Brissie, 30 September 2007

We will be starting the day visiting the Lethbridge Gallery who is one of my favourite galleries in Brisbane, as I like the skillful art Jeff is displaying. We have a sneak peak into GOMA and have lunch in one of the coffee shops there. We will finish the day with a free demonstration with Lyn Diefenback, who is an exceptional artist.

9.00am Meet at Bus
10.00am Lethbridge Gallery
11.30pm Lunch
12.30pm GOMA
2.00pm ArtShed Free Demo (2 hrs)
4.30pm Heading Home

If we get the numbers, I would like to organise a mini bus (12 people) for the day. The cost would be $15 per person incl. insurance. Otherwise we organise private cars. But I think it would be great traveling all together.

PLEASE RESERVE YOUR PLACE ASAP!

For bus bookings I need confirmation by the 24th of September. If you don't make it you still can go by car.

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Martina Pook has been involved in the art industry since 1982 and held many positions within the arts scene. With a degree in commercial illustration / graphic design and some classical training in the arts, she is a teaching artist, an art show judge and conducts art workshops and art business presentations and seminars.

Privately, her first passion is Christian humanitarian work, helping neglected and abused children and is deeply interested in the combat against child slavery and human trafficking.

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October 15th, 2019

Bustrip to Murwillumbah's Galleries

We Are Doing it Again!

Brisbane Art Students Tour

Let's Go Together

Let's Go Together

A Day of Art in Brissie, 30 September 2007

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