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Artist's Back to Basics, 9 Oct 2026

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Artist's Back to Basic is the perfect magazine for the aspiring and accomplished artist alike. It provides insights on, as well as step-by-step demonstrations from, Australian and international artists. Featuring the latest in news, reviews and products from the art world as well as exhibition previews and reviews. Artist's Back to Basic is sure to stimulate your artistic sense.

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ArticleAttuned to Open Spaces

Edward Spessot was born in 1937, at Gradisca in North­ern Italy. Gradisca is a small town not far from Venice. In 1950, he left Italy with his fam­ily – to settle in the Sydney sub­urb of Pymble. He com­pleted his school­ing in Aus­tralia and found his...

Attuned to Open Spaces

ArticleMitta Mitta River, Tall­angatta

Iwas fly fish­ing on the Mitta Mitta River, car­ry­ing my cam­era with me as always – hop­ing to catch a trophy fish. Along the bank, a gum tree caught my eye. The tree had old bark and the river was low … I could fix the water level back in the stu­dio.

Mitta Mitta River, Tall­angatta

ArticleMMAATERIIALLSS

• Artists’ qual­ity can­vas. • Artists’ qual­ity oil paints in selec­ted col­ours. • Vari­ous brushes.

MMAATERIIALLSS

ArticleTheBegin­ning and the End”

Fig 1. When lay­ing down the ini­tial sketch don’t spend much time on any par­tic­u­lar aspect but rather work the lay­out up as a whole. None of your first lines will sur­vive the refin­ing stage any­way so con­cen­trate on arran­ging the large shapes...

TheBegin­ning and the End”

ArticleThe A-Z Of Pen and Wash Sketch­ing

What is pen and wash sketch­ing? The ini­tial sketch is done with black water­proof pen and water­col­our is added. A sketch is a quick and spon­tan­eous response to a sub­ject or place. Draw­ing is a detailed and exact rep­res­ent­a­tion. A Access...

The A-Z Of Pen and Wash Sketch­ing

ArticleArtists’ Easels

S&S Whole­sale stocks a wide vari­ety of easels for every­one from the begin­ner, stu­dent and hob­by­ist right through to the pro­fes­sional artist. There are many types of easels for dif­fer­ent applic­a­tions … paint­ing, pas­tel work, indoor or...

Artists’ Easels