Landscape Artists

John Olsen
...born in Newcastle in 1928. In his series of works depicting the landscape and wildlife of Australia he has produced some of the most iconic images in Australian art. John Olsen is also a highly accomplished printmaker.

Judy Watson
...A direct descendant of the Waanyi clan, Watson was born in 1959 at Mundubbera in the coastal hinterland of Queensland

Her prints have an ethereal quality: mystical figures, caught in a spindrift; their form is unclear; a swirling, spiritual mirage.

Mandy Martin
...Mandy Martin, born 1952 in Adelaide, is a practising artist who has held more than 110 solo exhibitions in Australia, Mexico and the USA. She has exhibited widely in curated exhibitions in Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, USA, and Italy. Her works are in many public and private collections including the National Gallery of Australia and major state galleries and collections.

Fred Williams
...Australian painter and printmaker. He was one of Australia’s most important artists, and one of the twentieth century’s major painters of the landscape.

Tim Storrier

...Tim Storrier was born in Sydney in 1949. At the age of nineteen, Storrier won the prestigious Sulman Prize. He was the youngest artist to ever receive the award and hence catapulted to fame and success at an early age.

Lloyd Rees

...Most of his works are preoccupied with depicting the effects of light, and emphasis is placed on the harmony between man and nature. Rees' oeuvre is dominated by sketches and paintings, in which the most frequent subject is the built environment in the landscape.

>My favourite of these artists are Lloyd Rees, John Olsen, and Fred Williams.

I really like the different ways in which the artworks had been painted and how they all give a different feeling. I like the way that John Olsen uses simple lines to create an image, all his artworks look simple and delicate.

I think that Fred Williams also does a bit of this as well, although he uses lots of different colours which look really interesting.

Finally, Lloyd Rees' paintings looks really nice. His use of colour and line are very nice. He paints many works of stained glass windows. The colours look very nice and calm.

The Liminal & The Landscape

The Liminal & The Landscape

This term we are working on creating a landscape from our memory.
I chose to use Stradbroke Island because I used to go there a lot when I was younger.
I had a particular memory which i thought that i would use which was when my friend and I were waiting for a boat to pick us up and take us to a nearby island which had a leperasarium which my dad wanted to see. It was raining a lot, but my mum bought us two big yellow raincoats and we waded out to a sand bank and stood there for a while. There were lots of little fish swimming around.

My Vanita so far:

I think that it is improving quite a bit from when I first started painting.

I can still do a lot more to try and make it look better.

Reflection

Throughout term two we have been working on and developing ideas towards creating our own Vanita. This process invloves finding objects, which you don't necessarily have to own, which mean something to you, or are part of your life. I thought of multiple objects or things which I would like to use in my Vanita. These include:

>Teddy Bear

>Bracelet

>Mini Boat

>Laptop

>Ipod

>Tennis Racquet

>Watch

Once these items are all photographed and loaded onto the computer I can print them out and paste them on to my Vanita, or use photoshop. I can also get images from the internet to add. Before any of this can be done, I have to choose a Vanita to use. I chose a vanita with a vase of flowers. I don't really like the Vanitas with the skulls because they are not very nice to look at. Although flowers symbolise death as well, they usually appear bright and cheerful, therefore a more lighthearted image of death than the skull.

When choosing a Vanita, it is important to think about it's meaning. Vanitas use visual language to give the viewer an insight into what it means, and it's story. It is made up of symbols which each contribute to the meaning of the painting. The colour used is also an important aspect, in the Vanita above the colour which stands out is the blue, giving a cold/cool feeling. The Vanita's temperature (cool/warm) is dependant on the colours used. When painting a vanita the canvas is first painted a colour, either warm or cool, and then painted black over the top. The reason for this is that the underlying colour gives the black a feeling of colour. A blue would make the black look cold, even though it is not obvious that there is any blue at all. Our class has started painting their canvases the colour of their choice and then proceeding to paint black over the top.

It is not just the colour of the Vanita which creates mood, but the tone, texture, and shapes used as well. Shadows are created to give a feeling of light or darkness, and helps to make the images look three dimensional. In the Vanita above the shadow is being cast from the front of the skull which tells us that the light is coming from the front left of the canvas, the butterflies are also casting shadows. Shading has been used on the edges of the skull where there is no, or little light, like inside the eyes and nose. As mentioned above, texture is used in Vanitas to tell the viewer whether certain surfaces are rough or smooth. This adds to the realism of the artwork. When we practise painting images we practise the visual language so that when we do our final work, it will look as best as it can.

I am looking forward to getting started on our final piece. It will be a challenge, but I think that it will help us a lot in learning about painting. However if we didn't get to add our own items into the painting then I wouldn't like it much at all. I really enjoy choosing the images which could be included and how they should be placed in the picture.

My Vanita

The Vanita I have chosen:




Some of the objects I will imclude in my Vanita:

Vanitas

Vanitas

Vanitas are symbolic still lift paintings. Some examples of the symbols which are commonly used include things like skulls, clocks, candles, and flowers. Each symbol has a meaning, each of the ones above mean death. Vanitas are very traditional type paintings, they were especially popular in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Form, colour, texture, and composition are all important techniques to use when painting a Vanita.




These two images are examples of Vanitas.

Andy Warhol

Full Name: Andrew Warhola


Date of Birth: 6 August 1928


Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


Family: Parents were immigrants from Slovakia

Place of Residence: USA



<---Andy Warhol as a kid (on the right) Andy Warhol is a very famous pop artist who became famous during the 1960s until his death in 1987. He created many famous artworks which are in art galleries around the world and are worth millions.

EXAMPLES OF HIS WORKS:

Processes explored so far..............................

So far in Art this term, we have been exploring some techniques such as ink manipulation, scratching with twigs and re-working into the pieces with watercolour pencils. We have used materials such as A3 pieces of cartridge paper and different sizes of Mixed Media paper and many different types of inks and utensils.


The techniques used for the ink manipulations include using a spray bottle, streaking, letting the ink drip in different directions, manipulating the flow of the ink and deliberate placement of ink drops and shapes to create different moods and fantasy realms. A few of the ways to position and shape the ink on the paper are: streaks/lines which are long trails of ink, swirly/wavy lines which are very siumilar to long trails of ink, circles/dots which are created by sharp flicks of the ink bottle/ drops of ink on the paper, creating a trail of ink and then letting it drip down the page naturally to make long, thin, organic lines and diluting the inks and reworking them over previous pieces to create texture and tone.

Before any of these techniques can be administered, we firslty had to run our piece of paper under water to help the ink spread in unusual patterns, etc.

To scratch into the ink with our twigs, the piece had to remain fresh and wet. Using different twigs with different shapes, lengths and widths we carved intricate lines, designs, tone and sometimes helped manipulate the ink to flow into different sections or patterns on the page.

Lastly, once most/all of the ink on our pieces had dried we layered and worked over the existing ink to create depth and contrast. We focused on a main focal point and designed careful detail to improve the quality of our "fantasy realm."

WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY CATHERINE STUBBS AND ANNELEISE WOODMAN.

Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy is a British artist/naturalist. He uses nature to create his amazing works. He has travelled to many different places including Scotland, Japan, North Pole, US, and Australia. Goldsworthy is an ephemeral, this means he creates things that only last a short period of time and leaving no permanent traces. Once he finishes a project he photographs it, the photograph will be the only proof of the artwork.

Robert Juniper

Robert Juniper is an Australian artist who has a reputation in landscapes. Most of his paintings are desert like landscapes which have a 'decorative elegance'. His works are both naturalistic and abstract. Juniper uses colour to create a cheerful mood. His works are not too complex and are aesthetically pleasing.



This is an example of Robert Juniper's artworks.

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