The Draftsmen

I highly recommend this podcast, which is a weekly dialogue between Proko and Marshall VanDruff.

Click this link to see the video at YouTube.

• Marshall Vandruff: The Master of perspective and one of the most well read, accomplished and eloquent art teachers you will ever find!
• Proko at YouTube

Mum's Garden & Paintings

Mum was born in Gilgandra, or "Gil", as Aussies call it, which is about 440 km west of Sydney, north of Dubbo.

Mum's self portrait, painted when I was a child.

As a kid I remember her constantly painting, sculpting exquisite floral cake decorations which regularly won prizes at the Easter Show, doing large tapestry and lots of hand painted decopage. I guess that was a pretty good artistic environment for me to grow up in?

• Seascape - look at the beautiful light on the waves. Seascape - look at the beautiful light on the waves.
• Mum's self portrait. Mum's self portrait.
• Aussie bush scene Aussie bush scene
• Interpretation of a Renaissance (?) Dutch (?) portrait. Interpretation of a Renaissance (?) Dutch (?) portrait.
• Aussie bush scene Aussie bush scene
• Still Life - great work on the glass! Still Life - great work on the glass!
• Aussie bush scene Aussie bush scene
• Hill End Hill End
• Hill End Hill End
• Hill End Hill End
• Hill End Hill End
• Hill End Hill End
• Aussie bush scene Aussie bush scene
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A lot of this work survives in the beautiful house which she built out near Mudgee, about 300km west of Sydney.

She also designed the garden, which is a painter's delight, full of colour and texture and with a backdrop of mountains.

A strict process that nurtures individual expression

The variety of results shown in this one session demonstrates that I am teaching a painting process which:

1. Creates a finished masterwork in one session
2. and yet allows for a range of personal approaches to the subject.

This is by far the quickest way to find your own style in painting (and music too!). By analysing and interpreting recognised masterworks.

These examples were painted in one session: Cezanne: Apples, 1878.

Cezanne's original.

Having found the lines of counterpoint, the student is defining the darkest tones first.

Laying down a base coat of red on that apple gives the canvas a huge lift!

This student has worked on all the "positive space" first.

By way of contrast, this student has mapped all the negative space first!

Drawing the positive and negative spaces together.

Naomi's Cezanne incorporated a pop culture reference, with a couple of "smiley face" or you might call them "emoticon apples"!

Gorgeous backgound textures on Naomi's Cezanne, which are difficult to capture with a camera.

Penny's Apples included a Valentine!

Cherry's Apples showed her preference for Baroque texturing, doubtless informed by her 8 grades of piano and violin repertoire.

Alex managed to capture the "squared-off" shapes that Cezanne preferred. This gives the simple sphere a lot of energy.

Tina's apples displayed soft, blended textures. She later overlaid some constructivist Cezanne strokes with impasto.

Detail from Tina's Cezanne.

So at the end of a four hour session we have five unique expressions of artistic style, and five more beautiful paintings have entered the world!

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Counterpoint

• It: Contrapasto
• Lat: Contrapunctus

Defn: A musical device using contrary motion, perfected in the Baroque Period and exemplified by the music of J.S. Bach (1685-1750).

In music

Bars 1-8 from Bach Prelude No.1 (WTC) by J.S. Bach.

Bach's Guitar: Master Chords and unlock your Right Hand

In Nature

Trees often display intricate counterpoint.

The deeper you look, the more contrapuntal movement you will see. We choose energetic brush strokes to emphasise this musical movement. In another painting we might choose to stipple, representing intersecting clouds of harmony.