Tuesday 26 February 2013

Our first ink workshops

INKS WORKSHOPS at Arts Tree, February 2013


Grace with her incredible butterfly painting- at this point, it was still way too wet to stand up for a photo to be taken!


This is where the butterfly started, with a careful charcoal drawing. This was Grace's second piece for the weekend- Grace has done inking with De Gillett before, so knew what was possible!


Here is the beginning of Grace's eagle- beautifully texture pasted and waiting for some colour.



The eagle was painted all over with gold acrylic before adding ink
The inks start to flow- this is where we all stand around watching, hearts in our mouths hoping for brilliant results!

The finished eagle. Well done, Grace- it's brilliant!

Helen with her beautiful flowing dancers

Helen with her hydrangeas. Everyone managed to get two pieces finished during the 2 day workshop

Some frogs painted by Karen. How lovely and wet this scene is!

Turtle, waves and water- well suited to this technique of inking!

Karen proudly showing off her first ink painting

Margaret goes nuts with the texture paste

Margaret, a first time inker with her dancer

The inks go where they will, reacting to the textured surface you have created

A proud Margaret with her irises, all finished.
We are off and racing at our brand new Arts tree classroom at Wynnum! Here's some photos of our wonderful students at work during the Inking workshop in February 2013. We've booked more Inking workshops with the wonderful De Gillett on:

April 15th and 16th (Monday and Tuesday) and May 11th and 12th (Saturday and Sunday). Find out more about our art classes and art workshops at www.artstree.com.au and start doing something all about what YOU want!