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Welcome to the first
Newsletter for 2004. I hope you had a great Christmas and New Year and
that 2004 brings you all the things you would hope it to. I am looking
forward to a busy and exciting 2004 with a workshop in Tasmania another in
Northern Italy, a couple of major exhibitions and a series of articles for
Australian Artist magazine.
Happy Painting,
John
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ITALIAN
PAINTING WORKSHOP
TUSCANY
& THE VENETO
30th Aug - 13th Sept. 2004
Claudio Polles, our guide for this tour arrived back in
Australia last month and filled me in with all the latest details.
Our home for the tour will be two
beautiful 17th century villas. One in Tuscany and one it the Veneto,
so we only unpack twice. From these two central bases we make daily
excursions to a host of spectacular, historic and cultural locations
including:
- Venice
- Asolo
- Vittorio Veneto
- Conegliano village markets
- The Italian Alps
- San Gimignano
- Pisa
- Siena
- Florence
- Lucca
Claudio has also arranged for us to
dine at some fabulous local restaurants and Agriturismo where we get
to experience the very best local food and wine.
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TECHNIQUE
DEMONSTRATION
STICKS AND LEAVES
This demonstration forces us to concentrate on
the importance of design and composition We will use negative shapes to
build up the layers of background leaves giving the painting an interesting
three dimensional quality.
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ON THE EASEL
Also from the exhibition, these landscape
based watercolors
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TASMANIAN WORKSHOP
January/February 2004
FULLY BOOKED
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EXHIBITION
"By The Water" opened at McGraths Art
Gallery in North Sydney in November. The exhibition was a great success
- many thanks to John and Sue McGrath.
The Saturday afternoon demonstration painting was a lot of fun and very well
attended despite the Rugby World Cup grand final that night!
Opening night crowd
Stephen Wakefield - lucky door
prize winner
Outside Gallery waiting to get in
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