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Artist's Back to Basics, 9 Jan 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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ArticleDetailed Sub­jects on White Back­ground

–with Leonie Norton Below left: Cover paint­ing with bak­ing paper and draw around sub­ject Below right: Cut out around paint­ing. If you are paint­ing a botan­ical art or nat­ural his­tory sub­ject on a white back­ground, ensure your work is...

Detailed Sub­jects on White Back­ground

ArticleDepict­ing People

- with John Gil­lies Most artists can identify vari­ous steps in the pro­duc­tion of a par­tic­u­lar art­work – although the emphasis on each step may dif­fer from artist to artist. When it comes to por­trait­ure, this New Zea­l­and artist recog­nises...

Depict­ing People

ArticleBack to The Draw­ing Board

Along, long time ago in the land of brown robed Chris­tian Broth­ers and black and white Nuns, I lived in a world of Times Tables, Logic, Eng­lish Gram­mar and the mono­ton­ous repe­ti­tion of his­tor­ical dates and facts. In this world, Art took a...

Back to The Draw­ing Board

ArticleHis­tory of Pig­ments

Pig­ments are the basis of all paint, formed ori­gin­ally by using dif­fer­ent col­ours of ground clay, earth and rocks. They were made into a paint medium by mix­ing with animal fat or human saliva. For such an inter­est­ing and fer­tile sub­ject,...

His­tory of Pig­ments