Finally here it is framed

"Luscious Pear", by Belinda Lindhardt

Marking this one off for “completed” Now I just have to frame it

Artwork Details:

Title: Luscious Pear
Ref No. 076
Artwork Size: 11 X 14 inches or 27.9 X 35.5 cms
Frame: Light Wood with white matt, size : 45×56cms
Medium: Artists Coloured Pencils on Paper, with UV protective coating
Hours: 30 hours approx
Cost: TBC
Prints and Gretting Cards Available

See the works in progress:

http://www.belindalindhardt.com.au/wp/index.php/pear-green-leaf-colored-pencil-on-stonehenge/coloured-pencil/
http://www.belindalindhardt.com.au/wp/index.php/pear-green-leaf-wip/uncategorized/
http://www.belindalindhardt.com.au/wp/index.php/pear-green-leaf-coloured-pencil-wip-inspiring-book/coloured-pencil/
http://www.belindalindhardt.com.au/wp/index.php/green-pear-coloured-pencil-wip/coloured-pencil/

Where you can view it:

CCAS Summer Exhibition 15th – 17th January, The Studios – Web St, East Gosford. http://www.artcentralcoast.asn.au

We are getting there!

As i like to do, I currently have two artworks on the go one oil and one coloured pencil.

This coloured pencil peice is one that has been on my drawing board for quite sometime so I am hoping to get stuck into it and finish it off  soon I have to come with better name, I know, anyway thought you might like to see its progress.

Coloured Pencil on Stonehenge

P.s. This Blog and website update is still moving along, slowly, not there yet but i was FINALLY able to import all my old posts from my old blog, something I have been unable to get working until now woot.

As part of the discussions happening over on the Australian Coloured Pencil network of late, when creating my Santa hat illustration I took some photos and video which has just been uploaded over on the CP resources page.

If your interested in the technique or just want to see how i created my illustration go over and check it out

http://www.colouredpencils.com.au/cpresources/

If you like the video let me know, its a bit sketchy i know but its my first would like to do some more in the future

I have a bunch of ideas for Christmas illustrations that can be used for business and clients and personal use, so many ideas just not enough time.

I did manage to get one in today, a santa hat created with coloured pencils on paper..

BUT due to my magnificence (modest aren’t I) the idea is i have created it in such a way and edited the file so that you can use it for many other applications such as logos, photos, products multiple backgrounds, greeting cards etc.

What do you think?

Today is the end of a very busy week, what is great about this week is that i have managed to tick off a few things on my list that have been weighing me down both for work and personally.

To say that i have had  a bit of weight taken off my shoulders is a bit of an understatement, i have to say i have been struggling of late, i know part of it has been taking on too much, trying to achieve too much, but at the same time, they are all things that need doing. I am learning to prioritize  better and allow more contingency time in the future that will give me a bit more space to breathe, i need it.

This week i have completed 4 websites! Admittedly,  two have been in development for the past few months but they have all been made live this week which is fantastic .

One is the new Central Coast Art Society website, of which i am very proud to have completed. I was elected as a committee member earlier in the year to help out the existing webmaster with the website.

The previous CCAS had outrun its service and was becoming very hard to manage as the site was growing. So i am very happy to have provided the CCAS with a new website that will hopefully serve the society better for a while to come.
I am really proud to help bring art to the wider community and to be helping out local artists through this community society. Its really good perspective to be involved with a community project / service I thoroughly recommend it, if its not something you have previously been involved with.

Check out the site at: http://www.artcentralcoast.asn.au and if your a central coast artist – are you a member ? You get a FREE profile on the site!

Second website of the week is  Australian Coloured Pencil network .

This website has been running for a while on the ning network. To be honest I have always struggled with the ning system but for lack of time to research and find a better system, i figured anything was better than nothing and went with that in my inital launch.

The Australian Coloured Pencil community has defiantly grown since this website started, i am really happy to be doing something to help grow this community and raise the profile of coloured pencil art in Australia and help support other CP artists.

To cut a long story short, this week I was finally able  to implement a new system / website for our members, this website will mean so much more for the members, and will be great for me as there is so much more potential in terms of management, content, etc. as well as the potential for the site to recoup some of costs associated with its running.

So anyway go and check the website out, I still have some content and listings to add, I will get to it when i can, the site is primarily aimed for the Australian Artist but we welcome anyone from around the world so if your a CP artist, come along and say hi -

Australian Coloured Pencil network and we are also on Twitter: http://twitter.com/AusCP

That’s it for me for this week, i have also been retouching some paintings this week, getting ready for summer exhibitions in January – stay tuned, now I think i will have a beer and OMG hopefully RELAX!

Well, i am back. Today was my first coloured pencil workshop which I was asked to do earlier in the year by the  Central Coast Art Society. I had such  a fantastic time really enjoyed it!

There were 12 participants in all, which is a fantastic turnout, and i feels so honored that some people had made a special trip from quite a distance to come. Thankyou all so much!

The workshop was an introduction workshop, I covered alot of information about supports, materials and well known coloured pencil artists etc. I questioned myself that i was planning to speak for such a period of time in a “workshop” but I felt it quite important to cover these things as coloured pencils are  a medium which is not so known in Australia and for those which are new it i thought it would be valuable to share the info to see what is possible with a humble pencil.

I also thought it important to cover information about materials, mentors for coloured pencil artists are overseas, so alot of the information artists will receive here in Australia is conflicting and confusing particularly in relation to supplies etc.  It is also limited further up here on the Central Coast as opposed as to range that you can get in Sydney so again i wanted to cover alot of that today to help artist alleviate some of the confusion and run around that you can get when trying to get into this form of art.

As well as all the info, i had some exercises for the artists to do on values, pressure, building layers, colours just to get the ball rolling for people to get the feel for themselves on the technique. If i was to have jumped straight in and tried to get people to work from a reference today i felt that i might have lost a few people or  when trying to do it themselves at home people may have become a bit frustrated if i hadnt taught them the “right” way to go about.  So hence the structure of todays workshop, i also covered a bit towards the end about mixing colours, blending lifting colour. All in all some good groundwork.

The next workshop is in a fortnight from today, so i am hoping in that one i may  expand a little bit more into  tips for creating an artwork and some of the more advanced techniques etc. Again tho, time will be a factor trying to do all of that in 3 hours is a tough call, but i hope to be able to give a good indication of what you can and cant do.

For all of you pencil fans, here is a photo that may interest you all, one of the ladies brought in these vintage pencils to use. Look at that packet! Fantastic!

077 Warm Still Life - Coloured Pencils on Colorfix - By Belinda Lindhardt

Calling this one done.

Here a link to the WIP

Just posting the progression of this one