tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84988986386949743012024-02-22T02:27:20.879+10:00Bauer Bower Robyn Bauer - Artist-in-Residence
Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens,
Brisbane 2019Bauer Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489144575261532742noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498898638694974301.post-63669129924298770602021-06-25T16:00:00.001+10:002021-06-25T16:05:12.359+10:00<p><span style="font-size: large;"> Just letting everyone know that I have set up a new website which also includes my new blog set up.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">You can come visit me over at <a href="http://robynbauerstudio.com">robynbauerstudio.com</a> and see what I have been up to. Lots more paintings of Brisbane, its trees, urban landscapes, plus new still life paintings done during Covid.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVvtpcmjpmqwHrp6TFbnx5rg8jQVr7sDRBTGk-RxcioSLW81l_kU9jrQVuKFiKKcbcy8kNPPqNjGD4yWakJPbPBt5axoUNGklKRWHhRjIUPIxSVJ_H5PEB6UzodPNcq66yhshHveq5WYKD/s2048/20210410_131841.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1449" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVvtpcmjpmqwHrp6TFbnx5rg8jQVr7sDRBTGk-RxcioSLW81l_kU9jrQVuKFiKKcbcy8kNPPqNjGD4yWakJPbPBt5axoUNGklKRWHhRjIUPIxSVJ_H5PEB6UzodPNcq66yhshHveq5WYKD/w269-h381/20210410_131841.jpg" width="269" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robyn Bauer Fig Tree Drawing</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One of my new drawings of the magnificent Fig trees found in the suburbs of Brisbane, particularly Paddington, Red Hill and Milton.</div><br /><p><br /></p>Bauer Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489144575261532742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498898638694974301.post-90457410593157894092019-12-10T10:29:00.000+10:002019-12-10T10:38:39.456+10:00More Thursdays and my final two workshops.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The November workshop explored the use of opaque pens over paint. "Paint first, draw later". </div>
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I thought the succulent area the most promising for varied subject matter, plus it had the covered area for shade. This approach is such a different one for many of the participants and a few commented that they were way out of their comfort zone. </div>
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The results were quite remarkable.</div>
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The final workshop of the year was a professional development session for the Education staff. We explored the use of Posca pens on a coloured ground and spent the morning observing the waterlilies.</div>
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I have still been spending every Thursday drawing on location, sometimes joined by fellow artist friends or Urban Sketchers.</div>
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My October workshop in the Botanic Gardens was entitled "<b><i>Nature Journaling with a Difference"</i></b>. </div>
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After discussing the nature of journaling and an approach incorporating close observation and sensitive mark-making, each participant was given a concertina sketchbook and various ink pens to record their observations and sense responses. </div>
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We discussed different possible approaches and the use of contour or descriptive lines. We allowed for the use of colour and word descriptions and the honing of all the senses to enhance the experience. </div>
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Each participant was given a handout with some word prompts.</div>
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<br />Bauer Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489144575261532742noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498898638694974301.post-23836140877769669682019-10-17T16:07:00.000+10:002019-10-17T16:23:10.638+10:00Workshops and progress photosMy monthly workshops in the Gardens are going swimmingly with no shortage of participants. The full complement of 12 has been reached and surpassed every time, with a few on the waiting list managing to sneak in also.<br />
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The topic for September was "Tips on Composition" and there were many practicing artists or sketchers who attended.<br />
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The outdoor component was held in the Aboriginal Trail area just off the main road. Plenty of shade in this spot.</div>
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It was quite a complicated lesson but putting it into practice outdoors consolidated the concepts.</div>
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Perfect weather for working outdoors. </div>
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Not a great photo of the sketchbook throw-down due to the shadows but it just started to rain slightly so people were scurrying for cover.</div>
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The drawing above was done in the City Botanic Gardens as I do try to spend some time each month there also. The trees there are older and thus much more established. You can see distant vistas also through the different grouping of plants.</div>
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I just couldn't go past this tortured specimen of a Fig tree just up from City Hall. It's not actually in the Gardens of course but the drawing is certainly inspired by others I have been working on that are.</div>
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<br />Bauer Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489144575261532742noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498898638694974301.post-91279586196222074372019-09-03T12:52:00.000+10:002020-03-16T11:09:52.551+10:00Ten Trees and more Thursdays<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was sitting sketching in the Cactus House last Thursday with a group of sketching friends and a small group of school children walked past. They were so intrigued to see drawing being done out in the open air and as usual they stopped to watch for a while. They wanted to work out what I was looking at exactly and then follow the drawing lines I had made in response. And then... one little girl actually said to me<br />
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"I wish I was you!" and with that she walked off with the rest of the class. It made more than just my day but rather my whole week! It made me feel that what I was doing was so worthwhile, not just the artwork itself but the process of doing it where people could watch me, particularly children.</div>
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This was the actual drawing done just with various dilutions of ink and several pens. Below are some other photos of the day.<br />
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I have gone back to drawing on large sheets again and work on them over several sessions. They do not depict an actual scene but rather several plants from a particular area.<br />
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The late August weather was still a little unpredictable and we did get a few showers so working under the cover of the cactus house roof suited us perfectly.<br />
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We had our largest group so far of eleven artists on this particular morning.<br />
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I am still managing to get to the Gardens on most days. I feel that even though six months have passed since I started, I am still happy drawing on location. I had thought that by September I would have started some larger studio paintings but I am finding that I have to actually <u>be</u> in the Gardens to actually do anything. I can't work from photos right now and am not keen on working from cut specimens either. I know most botanical artists work this way and I have done some detailed drawings back in the studio of detritus from the forest floor, but I am seem to need the ambiance of being near live plants to respond in an appropriate way.<br />
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After the creative burst of the Collage Workshop preparation I enjoyed doing some small detailed tree drawings on paper prepared with a swish of acrylic.<br />
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The drawing above was done in the City Botanic Gardens on a very cold morning. Bunya Pine tree.<br />
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This palm tree is from Brazil and it did have quite a lean on it toward the light. I included the tap just to left of it to help locate it and also to indicate the strong angle at which it is growing.<br />
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I really couldn't go past this impressive succulent which is in the Arid Area not far from the cafeteria. I have drawn it from several angles over the years.<br />
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These Mexican ponytail trees have always intrigued me. I love their weird sculptural forms.<br />
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It is not always possible to get a shot of the drawing and the tree due to shadows.<br />
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The photo above shows the Ponytail tree drawing in progress.<br />
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So much variety to capture in tree morphology. When deciding which tree to draw on a particular day I usually just try to find something different from what I did the day before. I don't have a very scientific decision-making process. Another factor is shade. I have learned the hard way to always choose a spot that will stay in the shade over several hours.<br />
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On Japanese Cultural Day on August 18th, I thought I should choose something with a Japanese theme so I headed to the Bonsai House where I found this beautiful specimen of Swamp Cypress.<br />
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I went back there for the next few days also. Several bonsai experts were volunteering with the gardeners and I learned a few tips about maintaining my own bonsai at home.<br />
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The bonsai house attracts a large amount of visitors and listening in to the conversations around me, most of them are very knowledgeable about the specimens and the process.<br />
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One of the lovely gardeners stopped by and took a series of photos of me working.<br />
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And finally tree number ten in this little mini series.<br />
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This final drawing depicts my favourite Moreton Bay Fig Tree in bonsai form of <i>tree over rock</i>. I just can't get enough of these trees in any form!<br />
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Bauer Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489144575261532742noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498898638694974301.post-28556326483208175332019-08-10T15:23:00.000+10:002019-08-10T15:25:37.304+10:00Thursdays in the GardensAs part of my Artist in Residency at the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, I am drawing or painting somewhere in the gardens on most days. On Thursdays I have been posting my location on social media so that other artists or sketchers can join me. This week I was working in the Japanese Garden on Thursday and was joined by eight other sketchers.<br />
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I was tempted by the winter sunshine but after starting my drawing I soon realised I was getting far too hot, plus the glare from the paper made it very difficult to continue and I had to move to the shade. I still continued on the same drawing from a different angle. I should know better being a Queenslander. I won't make that mistake again.<br />
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The twisted forms of this Japanese Black Pine were the main focus with the pond in the middle distance.<br />
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There were dozens of school children who were intrigued to see artists at work and they stopped to watch for several minutes.<br />
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As you see we had a lovely group out enjoying the perfect winter weather.<br />
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This shelter provides a great resource for artists to see and work, rain or shine.<br />
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Bauer Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489144575261532742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498898638694974301.post-52516881639472796252019-08-07T15:57:00.000+10:002019-08-07T15:57:46.629+10:00August workshop - Botanical Collage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Using the outlines of flowers, leaves, seedpods and branches, this workshop focused on the use of collage.<br />
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I prepared nine collages to illustrate different techniques that could be employed.<br />
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Paper was prepared first with a swish of acrylic ink.<br />
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Various papers were sourced, including napkins and tissue paper. This provided the first layers.<br />
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There is some stenciling done here with paper doilies. Posca pens on the top layer.<br />
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I realised fairly early in this process that using large pieces of coloured tissue provided a transparent layer of colour that linked disparate elements.<br />
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There are bits of wrapping paper on this one and the black ink was added with a twig. Purple flowers painted with acrylic.<br />
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The one above probably has the most collaged areas of all of them. The four flowers have multiple layers of petals. I have ripped up some of my own paintings into petal shaped pieces. The coloured lines are Posca pens and an ink drawing in the middle.<br />
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<br />Sometimes if an area becomes too complex you can always collage some white paper over the top such as this white flower on the left.</div>
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<br />This one started with some acrylic ink splashes, then tissue paper then ink and Posca pen.</div>
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<br />This one is based on a painting I had already done of a lotus flower from the pond near the library. Lots of tissue paper to indicate the leaves.</div>
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<br />Lots of information about the different approaches on the white board behind.<div>
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<br />As an extra source of inspiration I bought along my collection of fabric flowers.<div>
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<br /><br />We worked the surfaces from broad backgrounds to details last.<div>
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<br /><br />I had such a variety of papers we considered tonal values as we went.<div>
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<br />So many approaches covered meant there were many different outcomes from the group.<div>
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<br /><br />As you can see above there was some wearable art experimented with.<div>
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<br /><br />Finally the results. Some outstanding responses. Some of the students continued these at home and I've seen the results on Instagram. They really came alive with some final touches.<div>
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Bauer Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489144575261532742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498898638694974301.post-90070440883434402702019-08-07T15:03:00.000+10:002019-08-07T15:03:34.998+10:00July Workshop in the Gardens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Mark-making was the focus for the July workshop.<br />
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We talked about close, close, close observation and a response to the natural objects I provided such as leaves, seedpods, branches and other bits and pieces sourced from the forest floor. Although texture was the main focus we discussed the nature of creativity and the value of interpreting the source material.<br />
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We used monoprinting, frottage, drawing and wax resist with ink.<br />
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<br /><br /><br />A large variety of media was used but the most fun was had with oil pastels and various dilutions of black ink.<div>
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<br /><br />Brushes and twigs were used to apply the ink. <div>
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<br />You can see the table centre is full of fabulous botanical bits and pieces found throughout the forest floor.<div>
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<br /><br />There were some very creative outcomes after careful observation.<div>
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<br /><br />Textures were also created with sponges dipped in ink.<div>
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<br /><br />Photo above shows some of the chaos in my studio at home during preparation for this workshop.<div>
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<br />My cat (@barneybauer on Instagram) wearing a camellia hat while helping. He doesn't look too impressed.<div>
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Bauer Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489144575261532742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498898638694974301.post-5561212741930738412019-07-13T15:35:00.000+10:002019-07-13T15:52:50.909+10:00June in the Gardens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am teaching a monthly workshop in the gardens and there seems to be a strange pattern emerging. I end up totally inspiring myself with the workshop activity and for the next week I do work inspired by that thought! It has happened every time so for the next month's workshop I have decided to try and get ahead of myself and do the inspired stuff BEFORE the workshop so that I can show my students the results.<br />
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The example above is an ink drawing done after I taught a workshop about using black ink in different dilutions. We looked at shape and also texture and how a range of tonal values can help create a three-dimensional effect. I had another plan in mind which was foiled because of the rain.<div>
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<br /><br />A few photos above of the last workshop showing some of the botanical specimens in the centre of the table and palettes with different dilutions of ink.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div>
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Bauer Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489144575261532742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498898638694974301.post-90281128311365577272019-06-22T12:31:00.001+10:002019-06-22T12:32:26.629+10:00April and May in the Gardens<br />
I have become a witness to so many changes in the gardens over the past few months. Different plants are flowering and there are subtle variations in light and colour in the various areas. I have big plans for some paintings that are still "cooking" in my head but in the meantime I have continued with ink drawing on location.<br />
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The last few months have bought a few personal challenges which I won't go into here, but throughout all my worry and anxiety I found my visits to the gardens to be a real therapy for me.<br />
I have started on some much larger drawings, all created on location in various shady spots. The weather has been kinder too, with the heat of summer behind us.<br />
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These drawings are on A2 sized sheets, 42 x 60 cm. Difficult to carry around but worth it for the immediacy of the mark-making done with the subject right in front of me. They are really tonal studies utilizing every range of tone from very black through to the white paper. These tones are pre-mixed and carried in my array of tiny bottles.<br />
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There is quite a lot of detail in these drawings which can only be seen in the originals. Every type of pen was used, including twigs found on the spot. The textural qualities of the various leaves and plant surfaces are incredibly beautiful and I really want to do justice to their qualities. At the moment it's all about texture and tone.<br />
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I love nothing more than sitting in the cool of the rainforest area studying the magnificent Fig Trees with the vines that cling to them creating an interesting cascading veil effect. I wish I could convey the earthy smell of these areas.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Under the large succulents, ink drawing by Robyn Bauer</td></tr>
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During April and May I actually had a broken arm although it didn't stop me working. I developed a new strategy of working with my non-dominant hand and even now that my arm is healed, I make sure to use my left hand for at least some of the drawing. I also do quite a bit of "blind" drawing where I am really concentrating very hard on what I am looking at and don't look at the paper. When I am teaching, I call this the "Zen of Seeing". It gives a quality of authenticity to the mark-making, a real feeling of leaf structure and appearance.<br />
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I have given several free workshops which have focused on tone or value and its importance in helping to achieve a strong composition. I have lots of tricks that I use, including the use of a viewfinder, creation of a thumbnail sketch and squinting down with your eyes to simplify the shapes and reduce the colour to a clear tonal range.<br />
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A funny and unexpected side effect of teaching the monthly workshops is that I end up inspiring myself! Ideas occur to me while I am teaching (I might have started off with a different plan and weather necessitates a change of direction) and then I can't wait to try them out.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Succulent area, ink drawing by Robyn Bauer</td></tr>
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Still making new discoveries both with the wealth of subject matter and with techniques I am inventing to interpret my surroundings.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sculptural tree form, ink drawing by Robyn Bauer</td></tr>
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I am planning to spend some time in the City Botanic Gardens as my residency allows me to do this also. They certainly have the large century-old trees. Just have to work out the logistics of getting all my gear in there on the bus!<br />
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Bauer Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489144575261532742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498898638694974301.post-74489289470176038962019-03-30T10:31:00.000+10:002019-03-30T10:33:10.387+10:00Weeks 5 and 6 including Workshop 1.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Finally some welcome rain! Unfortunately though it was the day of my first workshop in the gardens. I had several contingency plans for light rain, heavy rain or just spitting. Luckily for an hour or so it held off and we could draw outside.<br />
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My first workshop was entitled "The Body Language of Trees" and we worked with charcoal.<br />
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We started in the seminar room for the overall teaching component and then headed to the Australian rainforest area and Aboriginal trail. Here are a few pictures from the day.<br />
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Apart from the teaching, I have spent several days in the Gardens drawing on location as usual.<br />
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Bauer Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489144575261532742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498898638694974301.post-4960389109989419902019-03-16T13:07:00.000+10:002019-03-16T13:09:06.235+10:00Week Four in the GardensEven though is is now Autumn, we had incredibly hot weather this week. I worked mostly in the studio apart from a couple of little forays outside to walk in the gardens.<br />
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I have taken hundreds of photos I can work from although I still want my work to have a quality of having been done on location. The magnificent lotus plants are growing in a raised pond just outside the admin and library complex at the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens. I wanted to capture both pods and flowers. I have finally moved to working on canvas after all the drawings I have done.<br />
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This brightly coloured flower is a type of ginger called <i>costus barbatus </i>and it really stands out against the more muted colours of the eucalyptus behind it. I am building these paintings up in layers and they are still works in progress.<br />
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I managed to get hold of these books about Australian landscape artist John Wolseley from the Mt Coot-tha library. Much of Wolseley's art has really been a search for a way of representing the uniqueness of Australian flora, fauna and the environment generally. They are visual meditations on the natural world. He seems to achieve a spiritual interaction with the landscape. (Aboriginal people have always done this) </div>
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Many artists working in a western manner have never quite achieved this depth of response. The landscape has been painted, but there has been not so much focus on the flora and fauna except for natural history artists.</div>
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What I am aiming for is something that crosses these different traditions; Not a photographic representation or a collection of scientific observations,but something that takes from or blends different approaches. I am nowhere near achieving this yet but maybe after my year in the Gardens I'll have more of an idea. </div>
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What I can say so far is that I want my work to show some visual clues as far as colours, shapes and a response to an object or place in the gardens. I have plenty of visual stimuli and my drawings have explored some textural observations. I am trying to find my own way.</div>
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There is also the excitement of process. As I've said before, I want even the studio work to have the immediacy of <i>en plein air</i> response. The excitement of discovering something exotic to me will hopefully come across. </div>
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Bauer Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489144575261532742noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498898638694974301.post-42483522133077333762019-03-09T13:36:00.000+10:002019-03-09T13:38:42.834+10:00Week Three in the GardensI started the week off (Sunday afternoon) with a very long walk around the City Botanic Gardens and collected a bag of bits and pieces from the ground. (I have a special permit as Artist-in-residence to do this).<br />
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The first drawing of the week was done from examining these specials finds.<br />
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These objects deteriorate very quickly and the colours fade. The red and yellow leaves were so vibrant when I picked them up, but after only one day they had changed colour.<br />
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I know this one looks like a substantial departure from my usual work but it is something I have been wanting to do for a while. Firstly the collage using music manuscript and secondly the stencil cut-out idea. I had some fun with this. There is some quite detailed painting done over the top.<br />
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The music is relevant to me in several ways. I always have Classical music playing in the studio and also I find huge inspiration from how a classical piece is put together. Different lines or threads of various instruments to make a complete composition. It is the sum of many parts.</div>
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Now it is officially Autumn, the weather is cooling slightly in the mornings. A few mornings I arrived bright and early to get back to working on location which is my preferred <i>modus operandi</i>. I want all my work to have the feeling of having been done <i>en plein air</i>. There is a large of range of media employed and I enjoy the textural variations that result.<br />
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I had really been yearning to get down to the Waterlily pond while the flowers are so magnificent but it's been too hot to sit there so far. One morning found some shade on the viewing platform. I took along some paper prepared with a swish of acrylic as a background to save time. I have drawn over it in quite a coptic manner, following the outlines of the lily pads. Water-soluble crayons used also.<br />
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Basically I have spent the week still exploring varying media and keeping everything fresh. I have some ideas for larger paintings crystallizing in my mind. Still not quite ready to start them yet. Having a rewarding time observing.<br />
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Bauer Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489144575261532742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498898638694974301.post-70708934222437690282019-03-03T17:11:00.000+10:002019-03-03T17:14:57.641+10:00Week Two in the GardensEverything living has its own momentum. Seasons change, weather shifts and things gradually alter. They grow, develop and eventually decay. Each of these phases can interest me as an artist. Week two of my residency in the Gardens, I spent a lot more time just looking and thinking. The initial excitement of getting out there and drawing as much as I could in a week has been replaced by a quieter sense of things fermenting in my consciousness. I am looking deeper and closer and finding lots of tiny botanical treasures on the ground that I have brought back to the studio to examine in closer detail. I have done quite a lot of walking and have been to parts of the Gardens that I had never explored before.<br />
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My subject matter this week has been various materials found in the Australian plant areas. All of these "bits" I have discovered, are in various stages of decomposition. The shapes are what interest me the most. Such diversity and all found within the one week of February.<br />
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This one above includes a large Bunya nut and one of its spiky leaves. Other berries and pods are in various stages of drying out.<br />
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In some of these drawings I have traced around the leaves and used colour to indicate my delight at my discoveries. I am in a sense, interpreting what I find through the filter of myself. They are responses to the plants and to the settings in which I find them. There is quite a bit of fine detail and some of these objects are tiny, such as the white pods at top right.<br />
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I have used a colour overlapping effect that one finds in the Garden landscape, while at the same time giving each object its own space. I hope this makes sense to people reading this, because the real analogy is my life generally. To really give this residency my best shot, I have attempted to make space in my own life to allow the response and creativity to happen. I have made a few sacrifices and given up a few other commitments to allow this to take place and I am happy to do so.<br />
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The one above is mostly about the flowering <i>stenocarpus sinuatus. </i>There are a few other silhouettes of leaves behind the realistically painted ones. I can't resist a bit of pattern making as well.<br />
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Finally a picture of my table where I am currently working. I have some botanical and Japanese prints as inspiration above the collected green paraphernalia.<br />
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I am fully aware that I am trying different approaches, media and techniques before I create some larger paintings where hopefully it will all come together. I am happy to share this journey and this process. I have never been more fully aware of the true value of process over results. I think that if I embrace the fact that I don't know where all this will lead, it will lead somewhere truly unexpected and worth arriving at!</div>
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I don't know what sort of snake this is. Maybe someone can tell me? I could see about one metre of his body in the open.<br />
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This little guy was more persistent. I think he could smell the banana in my bag. He didn't get it though! Nothing would frighten him off, no matter how much I shuffled my feet.<br />
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There were dozens of these guys but they didn't come too close. Too busy scratching around.<br />
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I was happy to get a photo of four of these busy birds in the same shot.<br />
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And this rather well-fed guy was pretty good company in the City Gardens.<br />
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So these are all my new best friends! We will have to get used to each other.<br />
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I feel I am really being a witness to the Gardens and everything that is going on there.<br />
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I am being a witness from a space within my own imagination. I am also pursuing beauty and I am fortunate enough to be surrounded by it.<br />
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I can chose a subject such as this textured trunk in on the Indigenous Plant Trail and while it is my main focus, everything around it opens up for me while I am sitting there.<br />
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I chose a wider angle in this drawing and my main focus was the moving stream in the foreground. It was an extremely hot and humid day and hopefully that shows through too.<br />
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This magnificent specimen is <i>phaleria clerodendron</i> which I spied in the Australian Plant Communities when taken on a guided tour by one of the head gardeners. It has tiny white flowers growing straight out of the trunk as you can see in the photo below.<br />
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I believe that because of the extreme heat we have experienced lately it is putting on a more elaborate show than usual. I used a range of ink dilutions to get the detail I needed in this drawing.<br />
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My final drawing for the week was another Fig tree, <i>ficus sycomorus</i> and it also has fruit growing straight out of its massive trunk. Quite thrilling to see and hard to believe unless you witness it.<br />
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I said in last week's blog that my reading was getting more scientific , but I haven't let go of poetry either.<br />
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Another quote from Mary Oliver -<br />
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<i>Let me keep company always with those</i><br />
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Well I'm pretty astonished at what I am finding and it is only week one! I have 51 to go!<br />
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I have started a very detailed daily diary about the project for the year ahead and I will share some of my thoughts here.<br />
Naturally I have certain personal goals but the only thing that I can say with absolute certainty is that I hope at this stage to keep an open mind about where the project may lead. I can also say that I am really ready for this. Not only ready, but it is something I have been yearning for in my arts practice. Recent years have have had much narrower focus, but this is something with such possibilities for growth and expansion; for learning about the scientific side of things as well as the opportunity for my responses to my subject matter to rise to another level. A growth of the artist's spirit or essence. I could use the word "soul" or "anima". I hope you get the picture!<br />
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There has always been a wonderful relationship between art and botany. In real botanical illustration, the purpose is to show the different stages in the development of a plant; in bud, in blossom and in fruit. I have always loved such illustrations and have a whole library of books about them.<br />
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As far as my work is concerned the boundaries between botanical illustration, fine art painting and sketching on location, are something I intend to ignore. I am just going to work instinctively and respond to the place I am working.<br />
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My reading this year will be a lot more scientific than usual. I have steadily collected these books below over the last few years and the Mt Coot-tha Library is an excellent resource with extremely knowledgeable and helpful staff.<br />
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" <i><b>When we are with Nature all formulas and precepts must be left behind. If we go out to paint in a set manner we are conscious of ourselves rather than of nature: our practice will show that we are learned or ignorant, dextrous or clumsy, but but it will not show that which could have incited us to paint it" </b></i></div>
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Here are a few drawings and sketchbook pages to get the blog rolling along.</div>
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There are so many aspects of the gardens to explore but so far I have always been drawn to the Australian Rainforest areas. Fig trees are a particular love of mine and I am looking forward to learning more about them. I will be observing the seasonal changes and the different stages in the fruiting cycle.<br />
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Finally a couple of charcoal drawings, one of which was done in the City Gardens. I will be varying my materials to suit the subjects and lets just see where it takes me!<br />
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These drawings are done in charcoal on craft paper prepared with pastel primer. The one above is in the City Gardens and below at Mt Coot-tha.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I started
this in a small way, recording churches close to home, but it has grown into
something much bigger, that involved lots of research and driving about, and
encompasses temples, mosques, synagogues and other sacred places. Brisbane is
full of such buildings that embody powerful spiritual meaning and are the focus
of community sentiment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">These are <u>places</u>
where people celebrate life, be it marriages, births, and deaths. People bear
witness to loving unions; we mourn our departed loved ones. But these places are
often just landmarks that we drive past, and they are not really in the public
consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I wanted to
record these places with integrity, just the<u> fact</u> of the place, and how
it looked on a particular day, with weather, cars, people, traffic lights, no
frills or “best face”. It became an obsession there for a while. I had to stop
at 100 but I could have kept going. There are many I missed but I did my best.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>1. St John’s Anglican
Cathedral, 373 Ann St, Brisbane Q.4000<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>2. St Nikolas,
Serbian Orthodox, 6 Ross St, Woolloongabba Q. 4102<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>3. St Francis of
Assisi, Dutton Park Catholic Parish, 47 Dornoch Terrace, West End, Q.4101<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>4. Ukrainian
Byzantine Catholic Parish, 36 Broadway St Woolloongabba. Q.4102<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>5. Brisbane Mosque,
Islamic Society of Holland Park, 309 Nursery Road, Holland Park, Q.4121<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>6. Rosalie Baptist
Church, 97 Fernberg Road, Paddington, Q.4064<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>7. Windsor Road
Baptist Church, 16 Windsor Road, Red Hill, Q.4059<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>8. Mary Immaculate,
Annerley Ekibin Catholic Parish, Ipswich Rd and Ferndale St, Annerley Q4103<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>9. St Brigid’s
Church, Catholic, 78 Musgrave Road, Red Hill, Q.4059<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>10. St Barnaba’s
Anglican Church, 28 St Barnaba’s Place (Waterworks Road) Red Hill, Q. 4059<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>11. Annerley Baptist
Church, 556 Ipswich Road, Annerley, Q.4103<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>12. St David’s
Uniting Church, 68 Orange Grove Road, Cooper’s Plains, Q.4108<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>13. St Stephen’s
Chapel, Catholic, 249 Elizabeth St, Brisbane Q.4000<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>14. All Saints
Church, Anglican Parish of Brisbane, 32 Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill, Q.4000<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>15. St Columba’s
Catholic Church, 170 Kedron Brook Road, Wilston, Q.4051<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>16. Sacred Heart
Church, Catholic, 369 Given Terrace, Paddington, Q.4064<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>17. St Finbarr’s
Church, Jubilee Catholic Parish, 202 waterworks Road, Ashgrove, Q.4060<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>18. St John’s
Lutheran Church, 24 Levington Road, Eight Mile Plains, Q.4113<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>19. Our lady of
Victories, Catholic Church, 29 Cintra Road, Bowen Hills, Q.4006<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>20. St Mary’s
Catholic Parish, 1 Bromelton St, Beaudesert, Q.4285<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>21. St Andrew’s
Uniting Church, 299 Ann St, Brisbane City, Q.4000<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>22.St Andrew’s
Lutheran Church, 25 Wickham Terrace, Brisbane, Q.4000<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>23. Graceville
Uniting Church, 215 Oxley Road, Graceville, Q.4075<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>24. Sri Selva
Vinayakar Temple, Hindu Temple, 4915-4923 Mt Lindsay Hwy, South Maclean, Q.4280<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Cristo, Church of Christ, 65 Orange Grove Road, Cooper’s Plains, Q.4108<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>26. Logan Bosnian
Islamic Centre,2674F Logan Road, Eight Mile Plains, Q.4113<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>27. Ithaca
Presbyterian Church, 100 Enoggera Terrace, Paddington, Q.4064<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>28. Fo Guang Shan,
Chung Tian Temple, 1034 Underwood Road, Priestdale, Q.4127<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>29. Redeemer Chapel,
Our Saviour Lutheran Church, 745 Rochedale Road, Rochedale, Q.4123<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>30. St Luke’s Church,
Anglican Parish of Ekibin, 193 Ekibin Road, Tarragindi, Q.4121<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>31. Brisbane Sikh
Temple, 2679 Logan Road, Eight Mile Plains, Q.4113<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>32. St Stephen’s
Cathedral, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane, 249 Elizabeth St, <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b> Brisbane, Q.4000<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>33. The Brisbane
Synagogue, Brisbane Hebrew Congregation, 98 Margaret St, Brisbane, Q.4000<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>34. Bulimba Uniting
Church, 216 Oxford St, Bulimba, Q.4171<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>35. St John the
Baptist, Anglican Church, 171 Oxford St, Bulimba, Q.4171<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>36. St Patrick’s
Church, Roman Catholic, 58 Morgan St, Fortitude Valley, Q.4006<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>37. Macedonian
Orthodox Church, Nativity of the Holy Mother of God, 142 James St, New
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<b>38. Holy Spirit
Catholic Parish, 16 Villiers St, New Farm, Q.4005<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>39. St Michael and
All Angels, Anglican, 655 Brunswick St, New Farm, Q.4005<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>40. City Tabernacle,
Baptist Church, 163 Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill, Q.4000<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>41. West End Uniting
Church, 11 Sussex St (cnr Vulture St) West End, Q.4101<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>42. Uniting Church in
Australia, Kennedy Terrace, Paddington, Q.4064<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>43. St Paul’s
Anglican Church, 10 Jubilee Terrace (cnr Waterworks Rd) Ashgrove, Q.4060<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>44. Ashgrove West
Uniting Church, 491 Waterworks Road, Ashgrove, Q.4060<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>45. St Mary
Magdalene, Catholic Church, 51 Cecil Road, Bardon, Q.4065<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>46. Pilgrim
Congregational Church, Episcopal Church, 163 Simpsons Road, Bardon, Q.4065<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>47. St Francis
Theological College Chapel, Chapel of the Holy Spirit, 233 Milton Rd, Milton,
Q.4064<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>48. Church of St
Thomas More, Jubilee Catholic Parish, Chapel St, Petrie Terrace, Q.4000<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>49. Christ Church
Milton, Anglican Church of Australia, 9 Chippendall St, Milton, Q.4064<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>50. Ann St
Presbyterian Church, 141 Ann St, Brisbane, Q.4000<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>51. St Michael’s Catholic
Church, 250 Banks St, Ashgrove (Dorrington) Q.4060<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>52. Albert Street
Uniting Church, 319 Albert St, Brisbane City, Q.4000<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>53. St John the
Baptist, Catholic Church, 131 South Pine Road, Enoggera, Q.4051<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>54. Our Lady Queen of
Apostles, Stafford Catholic Parish,70 Appleby Road, Stafford, Q.4053<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>55. St Clements on
the Hill, Anglican Church, Eudunda St, Stafford, Q.4053<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>56. St Therese Little
Flower Church, Catholic, 80 Turner Road, Kedron, Q.4031<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>57. St Paul’s Uniting
Church, 7 Minimine St (cnr Webster Rd) Stafford, Q.4053<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Catholic Church, 115 Beaconsfield Terrace, Gordon Park, Q.4031<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>59. Holy Cross
Catholic Parish, 28 Chalk St, Lutwyche, Q.4030<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>60. St Paul’s
Presbyterian Sabbath Hall, 43 St Paul’s Terrace, Spring Hill, Q.4000<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>61. St Paul’s
Presbyterian Church, 43 St Paul’s Terrace, Spring Hill, Q.4000<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>62. St Joseph’s Catholic
Church, 26-36 Leopard St, Kangaroo Point, Q.4169<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Uniting Church, 40/48 Linton St, kangaroo Point, Q.4169<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Russian Orthodox Cathedral, 344 Vulture St, Woolloongabba, Q.4102<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>65. Islamic Centre,
West End Mosque, 12 Princhester St, West End, Q.4101<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>66. Greek Orthodox
Church, 33 Edmonstone St, South Brisbane, Q.4101<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>67. St Mary’s Catholic
Parish, 20 Merivale St, South Brisbane, Q.4101<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Anglican Church, 455 main St, Kangaroo Point, Q.4169<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Mayneview St, Milton, Q.4064<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Mosque, 119 Telegraph Road, Bald Hills, Q.4036<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Sabha, 101 Lemke Road, Taigum, Q.4018<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Parish of St Paraskevi, 241 Church Road, Taigum, Q.4018<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Queenstown Ave and Carlyle Road, Boondall, Q.4034<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Catholic Church, 194 Handford Road, Zillmere, Q.4034<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>78. Christadelphian
Ecclesias Wilston in Zillmere, 110 Church Road, Zillmere, Q.4034<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>79. Brisbane Congress
Congregation, Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Congress, Uniting Church in <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Adventist Church, 97 Blackwood St, Mitchelton, Q.4053<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Catholic Church, 67 Dawson Parade, Grovely, Q.4054<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>84. The Gap Uniting
Church, 1050 Waterworks Road, The Gap, Q.4061<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>85. Ashgrove Baptist
Church, 7 Firhill St, Ashgrove, Q.4060<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>86. Rivercity Family
Church, 59 Settlement Road, The Gap, 4061<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Anglican Church, 67 High St, Toowong, Q.4066<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>89. Toowong Baptist
Church, 5 Jephson St, Toowong, Q.4066<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>90. Christ Church
Anglican Parish of St Lucia, 3 Baty St, St Lucia, Q.4067<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>91. Chinese Christian
Church of Brisbane, 83 Ryans Road, St Lucia, Q.4067<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>92. Holy Triad
Temple, Buddhist temple, 32 Higgs St, Albion, Q.4010<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>93. St Andrew’s
Anglican Church, 160 Vulture St, (cnr Cordelia St) South Brisbane, Q 4101<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>94. Free Serbian
Orthodox Church, St Nicholas Monastery, 243/247 Vulture St, South Brisbane, <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b> Q.4101<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>95. St Clement’s
Catholic Church, 74 Ernest St, South Brisbane, Q.4101<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>96. Gospel Hall, 50
Miskin St Toowong, Q.4066<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>97. Brisbane
Australia Temple, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 200 River
Terrace, <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b> Kangaroo Point, Q.4169<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>98. St Ignatius
Loyola Church, 30 Kensington Terrace, Toowong, Q.4066<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>99. Toowong Uniting
Church, 82 Sherwood Road, Toowong, Q.4066<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>100. St Peter Chanel
Catholic Centre, 41 Chaprowe St, The Gap, Q.4061<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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I am really loving getting out and about in the mild winter weather. These drawings have all been done on location or <i>en plein air </i>in and around Brisbane.<br />
They are all ink on paper, specifically Arches 300gsm smooth, hot pressed watercolour paper.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bardon Water Tower from Collingwood Street.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Breakfast Creek Hotel</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St Matthews Mitchelton</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Story Bridge Hotel</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Japanese Garden Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Milton Fig Tree</td></tr>
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<br />Bauer Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489144575261532742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498898638694974301.post-40165252644646279022018-02-13T13:38:00.004+10:002018-02-13T14:45:18.490+10:00Recent Urban Sketches of Brisbane<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For the past year I have been venturing out at least weekly to capture the sights and activities of many varied locations in Brisbane.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Latrobe Terrace Paddington Brisbane, Urban Sketch<br />
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I wanted my drawings to have both strength and a strong design aspect so I decided to work just in ink. The ink is diluted into various strengths from ink black to pure water.<br />
Brisbane has such strong contrasts with our harsh sunlight and very dark shadows so I thought ink was the perfect medium to achieve this. It can be extremely messy so I usually wear black on my sketching days! I want to indicate the bright colours of our urban landscape without using colour.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rosalie Village Brisbane Urban Sketch<br />
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Being a Paddington resident, and being so enamoured of the place I have no trouble finding appealing locations quite close to home. Finding a spot in the shade is the most overriding consideration and when I am comfortable on my fold-up stool I can always find a composition in any direction. Framing devices such as foreground trees or telephone lines are something I embrace. The clutter of the street really is the subject after all. I always do a quick thumbnail first through my trusty viewfinder. If I don't do this I always regret it!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Given Terrace and Great George Streets, Le Bon Choix, Urban Sketch Brisbane</td></tr>
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Overhead telephone lines usually echo the topography of the street below so they provide a great compositional device. People and trees are my very favourite subjects as they provide the life and energy of the scene and give me chance to loosen up. If I am patient, a person that I can include will appear and if they move on I can morph them into the next person in the drawing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Story Bridge Brisbane Urban Sketch</td></tr>
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The landmarks of the city such as the big bridges are subjects that appeal if I can find appropriate shelter from the sun. Sometimes I work from the car. Even if I do focus on an iconic subject, I try to get an unusual view of it that is not stereotypical but is nevertheless accurate from a particular vantage point. Including the signage and the overhead lights and wires gives the sense of authenticity and accuracy that is important to me.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Eternal Flame, Anzac park, Urban Sketch Brisbane</td></tr>
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Some members of our group of Urban Sketchers Brisbane have architectural training and they gravitate towards producing detailed sketches of buildings. There is such a wealth of styles embodied in the buildings of Brisbane. Often in a single sketch different historical periods and genres are apparent. The silhouette provided by the shapes provides an important compositional device. Trees often do this job for me.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ann Street Uniting Church from Ann Street, Brisbane Urban Sketch</td></tr>
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Tonal values are paramount in this series of works. I do the big "squint" to establish where my lights and darks are and I usually go straight in with a fine pen that is slightly water soluble. I try to "disappear the line" by taking the tonal wash right up to it, as there are really no lines in the subject, just changes of colour or tone. This really creates a three dimensional illusion instead of just a drawing with lines. If I can "get rid of the line" then I do so. The change from dark to light indicates the subject in a much more realistic fashion. Also the drawings can take on the quality of an old black and white photo, which I find appealing and it creates another level of visual reference with historical overtones.<br />
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The arched windows in the sketch above illustrate this point. There are no lines just changes of tone or value. As far as perspective goes, I think it is the last thing to be worried about. I use "sighting" or holding up my pencil vertically or horizontally to measure the angle of a building by sight. I never bother with measuring. I just compare to the constant vertical and horizontal of the edge of the paper.<br />
The foreground framing of a concrete planter box and traffic lights gives sense of the crowded location. You can no longer step back from city buildings and get a picturesque view. It just isn't physically possible.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rising Sun Hotel Rosewood, Urban Sketch<br />
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Even in surrounding small towns, the paraphernalia of the street intrudes on the subject. In the case of this hotel in Rosewood, I think the railway crossing provides an amusing angle. It is accurate from where I was sitting against the opposite fence.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kilcoy Urban Sketch</td></tr>
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I have traveled a little further afield and found some great subject matter. I am sure my powers of observation and subsequently my knowledge of these small towns is really enhanced by investing some time sitting in the street and sketching.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rathdowney, Urban Sketch</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sandgate Town Hall<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oriel Park Ascot, Brisbane Urban Sketch</td></tr>
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There is definitely a quality of recording aspects of Brisbane life of the present moment. Change happens relentlessly and some of these images are a snapshot in time. I am actually aware of this while I am working. Different things are visible in different seasons also.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Racecourse Road Ascot, Brisbane Urban Sketch</td></tr>
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The giant fig trees that are dotted around the city and suburbs are something that makes my heart sing. I just can't go past one, even if I had another subject in mind before arriving.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Watercolourist, at The Priory, Kenmore, Brisbane Urban Sketch</td></tr>
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Everyone likes to come across an unexpected sketch of themselves, particularly if it is like "candid camera" and they had no knowledge of being captured at the time. I make it a mission to try and capture everyone in the group at some stage over the months.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melbourne and Grey Streets Brisbane, Urban Sketch</td></tr>
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I quickly captured another of our regular sketchers in the foreground here. It's always a good idea to put them in early on and just work around them. There is lot of camaraderie in our group and we have a lot of laughs when people see images of themselves. They would rather be sketched than photographed, that's for sure!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tropical Dome and Succulents, Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, Brisbane Urban Sketch</td></tr>
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As I mentioned earlier, trees and people are my favourite subjects and the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens is my favourite place. There is wealth of material there for the artist and plenty of shade. These textures are a challenge to indicate just using the one simple medium. I often start with a bamboo twig to get a loose starting point. I then go in boldly with large 2 or 3 cm brushes to apply the tonal washes. Splashes of ink are great to indicate growth and movement. I love the use of the accidental mark. I actually provoke it. Spilled ink adds, doesn't detract.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Latrobe Terrace Paddington, Brisbane Urban Sketch<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Queensland Museum, Brisbane Urban Sketch</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Three Monkeys, West End, Brisbane Urban Sketch</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Collingwood Street Paddington,Brisbane Urban Sketch</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fig Tree and Sandgate Town Hall, Brisbane Urban Sketch</td></tr>
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As you can see these trees really are a feature of my work. When the ink is dry (which happens pretty quickly in this climate) I can go over the ink with a white charcoal pencil to bring out some highlights and create volume.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Antarctic Beech Trees Springbrook</td></tr>
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Depending on the amount of time available, some sketches are more detailed than others. I sometimes think that the quicker and simpler the better.<br />
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It is only after spending the morning uploading all these images that I realise how many I have actually done! I am planning to put together a small book of these black and white ink sketches. I intend to have these at my next exhibition which is November 2018 at Royal Qld Art Society.<br />
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Hope to see you there!<br />
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<br />Bauer Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489144575261532742noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498898638694974301.post-42740927250214840732017-05-23T12:09:00.000+10:002017-05-23T12:57:54.002+10:00Paddington Portrait Project 1Throughout history, the subjects in painted portraits have traditionally been the wealthy, the famous, and the powerful. It has always been elitist and remains so with the subjects painted for the Archibald Prize generally celebrities these days. People who are larger than life in more ways than one. I find each year I am enjoying the Archibald less and less.<br />
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<i> </i>Or closer to home John McDonald speaks of a good Archibald year as one in which he is not <i>"gasping in disbelief'. (2012)</i><br />
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The portraits that move me the most are more intimate and dare I say more authentic. What Christopher Allen describes as <i> "a mutual connection between artist and sitter that makes a good portrait the crystallisation of a relationship" . </i><br />
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Even when you consider the greatest of the Old Master portraitists, some of their most moving works are the more personal ones eg. Velasquez's portrait of his manservant, Hogarth's portraits of his servants.<br />
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I believe the Archibald has become more about who is painted than how well they are painted.<br />
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I have started a project of my own which is decidedly anti-Archibald. I want to paint ordinary people, men, women and children in a much more egalitarian way. I knew I would have to build up to this, get plenty of practice, not having done portraiture consistently for a couple of years.<br />
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I was also influenced by the conceptual work of Marina Abramovic with her piece "The Artist is Present", in which she sat in an art gallery and people sat and faced her for hours on end.<br />
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I find this work and this idea intensely moving, so I decided early on that eye contact and a front on viewpoint was essential to achieve what I was after.<br />
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I like art that looks back. I imagine a whole wall of ordinary people looking back.<br />
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So this is it. I have launched the project. This is my studio wall with my progress so far.<br />
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I have set myself guidelines which may change or develop as time goes on. I am not sure where the project will lead. For now my guidelines are<br />
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* Everything is done from life in two or three sittings of about two hours each. Not exactly alla prima as I like the paint to fully dry so I can make adjustments boldly.<br />
* Eye contact, front on<br />
* Canvas size 40 x 40 cm prepared with a swish of raw umber. Heads generally about life sized. maybe a little larger.<br />
* I will paint anyone who wants to be part of the project<br />
* Ideally I would like a balance of different ages, personalities, ethnicities, gender but I don't have full control over this<br />
* No photography<br />
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I have had to warn all my sitters that the very entertaining show "Anh's Brush with Fame" is exactly that "Entertainment" and that I would not be psychoanalyzing them, nor were they expected to keep on chatting. We saved the chat for the breaks. I also explained that while it appears that I am really staring at them I am actually making continual decisions about colour mixing, shapes, tone etc. It is they that have the opportunity to really look at me without interruption. I am too busy working to worry about what they may be thinking about me, although I've been told that I pull a lot of faces and I stand with my left hand on my hip!<br />
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And I use a viewfinder to make early decisions.<br />
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Here are some of the portraits in more or less chronological order.<br />
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After I had exhausted the family members I had access to, I put a sign in the studio window asking for volunteers. I have had lots of generous strangers willing to give up fours hours or so.<br />
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After I had done a few I had the courage to post a few of them on Social Media and I got a few more volunteers. Initially I wanted some link to Paddington, however tenuous but then I figured coming to my Paddington studio was link enough.<br />
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Husbands have modelled and then wives. I have made some good new friends. I know John Singer Sargent said that every time he painted a portrait he lost a friend. I guess his patrons were trying to call the shots considering the prices he was charging.<br />
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I am also very interested in how the experience of sitting feels for my models. Martin Gayford when sitting for Lucian Freud's "Man with a Blue Scarf" said his motive for sitting was "<i>an assertion of my own existence"</i>. He said <i>"The experience of posing seems somewhere between transcendental meditation and a visit to the barbers". </i><br />
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The conversations had during the breaks have been lovely. One on one conversation always works best for me. I have learned about all sorts of things, including the geography of the surrounding landscape seen from my back deck. And several of my drawing boards have been expertly cut down for me by a master carpenter, seen above.<br />
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Keeping the backgrounds simple but accurate as far as my studio lighting goes, has also been an important factor. I have a black sheet up as a backdrop and it is magic for the contrast of beautiful white hair.<br />
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Basically my models are coming from pretty much everywhere. Friends, family, acquaintances, strangers, friends of friends, different aspects of my life, including fellow choir members.<br />
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Some of them could do with another sitting but the sketchy finish suits others.<br />
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I want to have a balance of male and female but at this stage I am just painting whoever comes along.<br />
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Getting plenty of practice painting beards. They are all so amazingly different and I have added lead white to my palette for the first time.<br />
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And finally, if no-one comes along I have to resort to the family canines.<br />
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<br />Bauer Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489144575261532742noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498898638694974301.post-70158349922886453652016-10-14T11:07:00.001+10:002016-10-18T09:46:43.354+10:00Brisbane StoriesMy exhibition Brisbane Stories is finally up at the Petrie Terrace Gallery. It is on now every day until Sunday 23rd October, and I must say am pleased with it how it is all looking.<br />
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I did the opening speech myself on Wednesday night and I will share here the basics of what I said. I have even included the jokes I told at the end of my speech. What I can't really relate here is how much I started laughing and struggled to get the punchline out!<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"I would like
to acknowledge the traditional owners and original inhabitants of this patch of
land the Jagera and Turrbul people, for whom I have the highest respect for
their care for country. I recognise that
the land where RQAS now stands has always been a place of learning and of
teaching.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There has
always been an aspect of communication in what I have tried to do with my
artwork. I have always written blogs about what I am trying to do as much to
clarify my own thoughts as to open up to my audience. In preparing for this exhibition I sat down
to write my artist statement and for the first time ever I couldn’t write anything.
My mind wasn’t exactly blank but I thought that whatever I said seemed to be
superfluous, a cliché, or totally unnecessary. This surprised me but when I
analysed it, I realized that maybe I had finally reached a point where the
paintings were doing their own communicating and they didn’t need any help from
me – a good thing…<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Or
alternatively I had simplified what I was doing into a “response to place” that
has at last become instinctive. I am
interpreting where I live through the filter of myself, and in doing that and
trusting my instincts I have finally found a response in the people who also
live here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But, I do
need to go deeper than this. <u>What</u> am I spending 7 days a week doing and
why?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My answer is
quite personal. I can’t think of anything more worthwhile to do with my time,
than to do the fraction that I can, to contribute to a visual interpretation of
where we live. Every artist would love to go to Venice and paint the canals, to
paint Paris by lamplight or sunsets over the Pacific. But I live <u>here</u>
and I feel I owe it to <u>here</u> to look around <u>here</u>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Working on
location as an Urban Sketcher has really helped with that. It has helped me to
broaden my source material. Instead of taking a photo of something picturesque
as we all do, and working from that, sitting in the street with cars and signs
and barriers in the way of a good “view” I made a conscious effort to embrace
all that, the clutter of the street. What Robin Boyd disparaged as the
Australian ugliness has become to me, something worth recording. And we don’t
see in the way a camera “sees”. A camera has one lens out the front. We have
two. Cameras distort. As people we see lots of things at the same time, and we hear,
and smell simultaneously. We have to use visual tools to hint these other sense
experiences.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As many of
you are aware, this exhibition carries on from one I had last year which I
called <i>Paradise Found – Close to Home</i>. The biggest difference with this new work is
the inclusion of so much more LIFE, people, not just the type of models we get
at life drawing but real people with different body types, real street
people. The title “Brisbane Stories”
indicates that there is a new narrative or story element to these works. And
why not? It makes it real and it makes it fun.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> I was fortunate enough to be Artist in
Residence at this year’s Royal Qld Show and I spent plenty of time preparing by
sketching everywhere I went to build up my speed skills to capture the real
body language of people just going about their business, not posing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The people
that I captured, are doing things or doing nothing. - You can insert your own
narratives into what is going on. I have not spelled everything out, I have
just hinted at possibilities. It anchors the work not just in a particular place
but in a certain time. I am aiming for the universal through the specific. - Because it is all we have.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Which brings
me to explain what different parts of this exhibition are.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The unframed
works on paper presented as a grid are the works that I did on location at the
Ekka. I went there 9 – 5 for ten days and walked around with just the sketching
materials I could carry in a small pull-along case. I think there is an honesty
and freshness about these direct images which can be lost when things are
retouched in the studio. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The large
painting at the back is from my show last year and I have included it because I
have the opportunity in this large space and because I have had the prints made
that many people asked me for. Few people have a wall big enough so the prints
are a practical compromise.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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many more figures in these new works, animals, birds and trees that populate
the urban landscape. The natural world is never far away even in the most built
up of areas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Many people
comment about the colour in my work, but I see myself first and foremost as a
tonal painter, the light and dark have to work before the colour can. I do very
closely observe light, which comes from the sky and you will see that I have
tried to render every possible mixture of sky colour that I have observed.
Mixing colour is an instinctive thing that comes with years of practice and
experimentation and I don’t even think about it, but I am enjoying seeing the
range of permutations.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robyn Bauer, Hecate of the Suburbs, Menzies Street from Petrie Terrace</td></tr>
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</u>colourful, it is tropical, exotic and can be pretty in every season.
Absolutely everything seems to grow here. It is this LIFE or a feeling of it
even in the architecture that I have tried to capture.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When I
taught in Manchester this year at the Urban Sketching Symposium my topic was The
Body Language of Trees. I had approached them with this idea and they liked
it. - How trees in the urban landscape
cope with what is around them. I think I
really extend this idea to the landscape itself, to the buildings, the gardens,
the streets, even the overhead wires which are wonderful visual echoes of the
topography underneath. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The body
language of <u>all </u>these things! Even inanimate ones. - All these things are on my radar now and one
other thing I would add is that I am great walker and when walking you can
observe at a human pace and scale, and you also have time to think and process
things as you go. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robyn Bauer, City from Latrobe, Long and Alma Streets.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">One final
point which is a kind of technical one. - How much I use negative space. The space
between things, - like the silences or spaces in music, make it what it is, the
length of notes, so too the spaces between my figures, buildings or trees
become important pieces of paint. And one must remember that paintings <u>are</u>
paint, so that the history of the layers, the drips, the underneath bits are vitally
important to give the quality of life that I am after, that things change, move
and develop. They are not static like a photograph is static.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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wallet. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Bauer Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489144575261532742noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498898638694974301.post-69639086493616211962016-08-14T22:16:00.001+10:002016-08-14T22:20:49.211+10:00Final Day at the Ekka - Day 10I have just finished ten days straight of sketching at the Royal Queensland Show.<br />
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Rather than feeling tired, I felt kind of sad walking away. It's been interesting as an artist having a "job" to get to everyday, instead of going upstairs to the studio. Of course in both cases it is totally a case of self motivation.<br />
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My thoughts on the last day,-<br />
"Is there anything I have missed"?<br />
"Have I covered it all"? - Impossible of course but I do think I have given it my best shot. My goal was to go along to the Ekka for the 10 days, capture what I could by working on location or <i>en plein air </i>and then come home and blog each night. I have managed to do that.<br />
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I've arrived at 9am each day and worked until about 4.30pm, went home for a break and then blogged at about 11.30pm. I could definitely do a day job like this if there was such a job for artists.<br />
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I have basically spent the 10 days observing and recording sights and settings, behaviour and body language. People have been so polite and friendly even in the most crowded of spots, and members of the public have been genuinely surprised when they realised what I was doing. Parents in particular have made sure that small children understood what I was working on. Most kids love to draw so seeing the scene before them unfold on paper was a new experience for many of them. (Kids generally draw from imagination and memory, not from the scene before them.)<br />
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The first one I did today (shown above) was from the Pink Events Catering, Dagwood Dog Outlet looking across Gregory Terrace. There are orange horseshoe shapes painted all over the bitumen which I didn't notice until I sat there.<br />
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This second one was also Gregory Terrace but looking in the other direction. I like to include the street furniture such as the type of signage that is usually edited out as it is a genuine part of the streescape. Lovely yellow and black No Parking sign in the foreground.<br />
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I had to include the famous Paddy's baked potatoes and I was happy that this family in the foreground stayed there just long enough for me to sketch them.<br />
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I also went back to the Dodgem cars to finish this one from yesterday. I have added a few more spectators and a lot more lights. So this was my final one on location. I will work on some bigger pieces after my October exhibition is over.<br />
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I have a few final thoughts I would like to share. Sketching at the Ekka is not something that I imagine would appeal to many artists but the subject matter suits me down to ground. I love the variety and the action and my Urban Sketching training has made me develop skills I didn't have a few years ago. Many of the exhibits at the Ekka come from the natural world and many of my particular interests are covered. Added to this there is all the visual drama of Side Show Alley which I find very stimulating also.<br />
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I made a few notes in the bus on the way home while the whole experience was still very fresh. I do feel sense of relief that I managed to acquit myself well at Toowoomba, Manchester and now the Ekka , all back to back so to speak, without missing a beat.<br />
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And now it is back to the studio but before that a tad of house cleaning to catch up on!<br />
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<br />Bauer Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489144575261532742noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498898638694974301.post-37410815348043620052016-08-13T23:34:00.000+10:002016-08-13T23:46:17.807+10:00Brisbane Ekka Residency - Day 9It's official, people really are my favourite subject. (I should broaden that to people and other things that are alive such as animals and trees). As I get to the Ekka each day it's all the people with different body types, clothes and body language that strike me as the thing I have to capture immediately.<br />
This morning I had a coffee in the <i>al fresco</i> eating area in front of the RNA Council stand.<br />
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The guy on the left here was reading the paper and trying to provide a bit of shade for his face. The girls in the foreground were eating doughnuts for breakfast. Another perfect day as you can see.<br />
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I went back to the animal nursery area and while waiting for the bush poets and the shearers I spotted this dromedary who was the most elegant and motionless model I have had all week.<br />
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Her name is Fatima, she is 18 years old and she comes from Southern Cross Camels. Dozens of people photographed her while I stood there drawing her but she seemed oblivious or at least in a world of her own. She was sitting on her legs so I just did a profile portrait. While I was sketching Fatima, I just missed seeing a calf being born in the Dairy Pavilion. I did see a photo taken moments after the birth however.<br />
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In this image I have combined the Bush Poets and the Shearers in the one image as I sat there sketching while both were performed. The fleece is on top of the orange metal device on the right.<br />
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Here I am in the courtyard outside the Fine Arts area.<br />
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<br />Bauer Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489144575261532742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498898638694974301.post-39918934045003048492016-08-12T23:20:00.000+10:002016-08-12T23:24:11.922+10:00Brisbane Ekka Residency - Day 8Today was the eighth day of my Ekka residency and the most rewarding so far. I had a giant macaw on my head, got to hold a baby lamb and a fun photo opportunity at the Ekka love tree outside the Old Museum.<br />
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This Instagram setup appeared to be very popular. The tree looked amazing decorated with roses and red hearts and provided a great backdrop for the photos tagged #ekkalovetree for everyone to share the Ekka experience on social media. I even saw a whole primary school class getting in on the act.<br />
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Midmorning coffee time was in the Food and Beveridge Hall where I tried to give an indication of the hive of activity, shown below.<br />
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I have sketched a lot of people this week and two things I have noticed are, firstly so many people wear their sunglasses on top of their heads ( I was never allowed to do this a a teenager so I really notice it now) and secondly instead of carrying show bags around almost everyone seemed to have a backpack. And of course phone use seems to be at an all time high.<br />
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I have sketched horses, goats, chickens, ducks and people and I finally got around to the sheep. This champion ewe is called Dakabin Nyssa and she was bred at Dakabin State High School Sheep Stud. I met her handler Olivia and I got to cuddle the baby lamb after my painting was finished.<br />
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I overheard a few onlookers say they would never eat lamb again. I am a lifelong vegetarian so I had no such guilt pangs.<br />
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Finally I have to share the picture of me with the macaw on my head. I believe her name was Angela and she was heavier than she looks. She comes from the Maleny Botanic Gardens Bird World.<br />
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<br />Bauer Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489144575261532742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498898638694974301.post-86808521953586736002016-08-11T23:30:00.000+10:002016-08-11T23:33:42.558+10:00Brisbane Ekka Residency - Day 7There was one Pavilion I hadn't sketched inside (although I had done the exterior) and that was the Woolworth's Food Area. I made a beeline there first thing this morning and had a great view of all the Providores before there were too many people.<br />
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I got two done in this area and was able to sit comfortably at a table and paint in two directions. I enjoyed a Merlo coffee while watching these energetic and efficient baristas at work. They were delighted when I showed it to them. #merlomoments<br />
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The second one done in this spot was of Ilias the Greek and Butch's Smallgoods. Just enough people around to get social atmosphere. The guys in the foreground were all wearing some uniform shirts having coffee before jumping up and disappearing. I knew that would happen so just blocked them in. Temporary patrons who have somewhere else to be asap!<br />
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I keep checking my Ekka map to see if there is any spot I have overlooked and I realised that I hadn't gone the whole length of the horse stable area. I can't stay away from the animals for long it seems.<br />
This horse is called Warrego Landadon aka Hank and I swear he was motionless when I chose him to sketch but as soon as I started he became very curious and moved his head every which way. Consequently I have three different views of him. After his modelling session he then went off to compete in the Showjumping.<br />
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I finally made it to the Lumberjacks from Canada! It was a very funny show with a couple of death defying acts climbing the high pole. I decided to try and paint the whole setting including the audience. The lumberjacks were too far away to get much real action or detail. At least I finally found them!<br />
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And finally another onlooker took this photo of me at work below. I was in the back row of the grandstand, as high as I could get.<br />
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Another productive day. The question I get asked most often is what am going to do with all the drawings and paintings. Well I will do some larger paintings on canvas when I get back into the studio after the Ekka is finished and will show them at some stage.<br />
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