Australian How To Paint

• I always buy quality canvasses. They cost a bit more but are well worth it in the end. • Instead of using a traditional palette for my painting with Atelier Interactive Paints, I have purchased a large 30cm square Décor plastic pizza container. The

• Use artists’ quality materials – buy the best you can afford because cheap materials will hinder your progress and frustrate you. • Practice often, because this will build confidence. • Plan your painting and simplify by removing unnecessary detail

By Sue Lederhose • 2B graphite pencil • ½ sheet 185GSM hot pressed Arches paper • Backing board • Spray bottle • Brushes – Small and medium mop brushes – Rigger brush – Flat brushes (1/2 and 1/4 inch) • Paint – PR 206, which is a Brown Madder or Avig

By John Shields To achieve the best results, I commenced the painting with the attitude ‘this is going to be the best painting I have attempted up to this date’. The following steps have worked for me. I have developed them over the past 40 years. H

• I encourage people to engage in a basic understanding of perspective for it is present in everything we see and not just in the obvious like buildings. I have seen many just throw up their hands and refuse to believe they can learn it, but I believ

Kevin Rogers was born in Brisbane in the late 1950s, and was raised at Southport, Queensland from the age of five. Kevin’s passion for art began when he was about 13 years of age, when he was given a ‘How to Draw Woody Woodpecker’ book by the famous