Barb Suttie Tutorial 19th March 2011

Barb Suttie is on oil painter who lives in the Tweed Valley and is known locally as "the artist" who predominantly paints Mt Warning and the Caldera Region.

Barb is an experienced teacher who specialises teaching adults and children with special needs.

We had a great day watching and learning some of the techniques and tricks that Barb uses when creating her beautiful paintings.

Barb tells us to be proud of our work and to make sure we sign it so that our work can be recognised

At the end of the day we all felt that we had something special to take home;

A great day, some useful tips and a nice piece of work to go on with.

Greg Hollis Tutorial 19th February, 2011

Greg Hollis (tutor) was an information packed day.

Greg was well prepared and he had his daughter  on hand to make his whole program run smoothly. He brought along a number of his works which he does in realistic style, but not slavish to what is actually in front of him.

We were all enraptured with his colours used to produce ocean scenes.

Greg had boards divided into 4 rectangles and he spent time showing his simple method of making clouds seem realistic in different colours and types of clouds.

He gave a variety of colour mixes to produce skies.

He showed his methods of making landscapes and rocks with paint brush and then with painting knife.

Finally he finished off the landscape showing shadows, tanks, reflections in water and how he makes an old style barn by laying the darks down first and putting the lights to represent doorways, wall boards and etc.,  He finished off with a tree and the use of his brushes - some 'doctored' a little- - to represent foliage.

We all came away with a lot of useful info and some new tricks of the trade.

It was almost 4pm when he finally called a halt -- and we all felt quite worn out !!!

Sketching Lismore's History

As a part of Lismore Art Club's 50th Anniversary Celebrations in September 2010, Margaret E Brown held an out door drawing class featuring some of Lismore's historic buildings.

Jude Shannon Drawing Tutorial January 2011

Jude presents an interesting tutorial on drawing  and pastel techniques

Interested students watch as Jude demonstrates techniques



The end result of Jude's tutorial



Lucja Ray tutorial November 2010

Lucja Ray is a very energetic, free spirited lady from Currumbin, Qld.  Her work is big and bold  and free.

We had  a great day learning to go wherever the painting leads you using implied and real texture.

                                                                                                         Lucja points out some of the finer details to Angela