8X10 inches, 20X25cms

A Fabulous little warm up for me for the beginning of the year I thought I would share with you all. These were the roses that I bought on Pink Rose Day, I blogged about and supported last year. (wow it feels weird saying that it seems like it was just the other day).

“Love Fuels” – Acrylic on Canvas

Calling this one done It’s really fun to step back into some more of my “fun / impromptu” style of painting

I could keep going but I am learning to know when to stop, and I can hear my pencils calling me – uhoh!

inside seeing a feature of myself and my demo of using coloured pencils on drafting film on my “Maxy Bubbles” artwork. The information is a couple of years old but so fantastic to be featured again!

It’s been a busy month for coloured pencils, I have had 2 coloured pencil workshops for the Central Coast art society and 1 demonstration / meeting with the Avoca Beach Artists group.

What a delightful time at all these events I just love getting the pencils out into the world!

August Workshop Report

In my first workshop we covered - CP Techniques.

I love to do this workshop as it opens people up to the possibilities with pencils (oooh i like that i might have to use that next time as the theme! ). Basically we cover things like cp art in general – i like to show people my own art and other cp artists art from the books, magazines etc. as inspiration to see how it looks and what can be done. I also do a bit of history as to how I learnt my techniques, moving onto things like supplies and supports types of pencils, papers etc that you can use with examples of how they are used, then onto strokes and pressure and how they impact your work and how to do them through some various exercises. Then we move onto other exercises which include values, briefly touching on colours and getting participants to make a ball using 4 pencils
This is a workshop I have held often and I think people enjoy it (I hope) many of the participants this year have been before and hopefully come away with an bit of an understanding and inspiration of coloured pencil art that will help them to go through to more complicated work later on.

The second workshop was designed to help people who have tried various techniques move onto further stages of the “process” of creating cp art.

I brought along some of the prelimnary drawings and processes to show people the way I work. We also covered very lightly the theory of mixing your colours with your pencils and “Planning your artwork” in terms of starting and continuing through the various stages of whatever you wish to create.

This was the first time doing this type of workshop in this timeframe (usually I allow for a whole day for this one) so we didn’t quite cover everything I would have liked but participants were encouraged to choose a reference photo and we walked through strokes, values, laying down the first layers, choosing their colours and then through to blending the pencil and burnishing etc.
As participants did this I was able to guide people through the stages as well as work on a peice myself to demonstrate some of the various stages.

All in all a great series of demos and workshops. I enjoy getting out there so much, and a big Thankyou to everyone who attended and to the CCAS for having me.

NEXT WORKSHOP

scheduled is my “Techniques” workshop in September over 2 weeks at the Somers McCourt Gallery in Gosford – (if we get the numbers) so if you are interested in coming along on the 14th & 21st September – 102 Mann Street, Gosford.10am-12pm Cost:$50- for both sessions.
To book email:somersmccourt@gmail.com or phone 0407 067 024

“Brotherly Love” – Coloured Pencil on wood – Belinda Lindhardt

This one is a little hard to photograph well – the colours are slightly off, but I think i am calling this one done.

What I like about this is the texture of the wood and the way it holds the pencil. I like the fact that it adds another dimension to the work, I love the fact that I can frame it without glass.   I am a bit unsure how I am going to frame it. That will be the next step.

Being a carpenter’s daughter I have been around wood and played with wood my whole life so this is familiar to me , despite being my first attempt. It always is to fun to try something new looking forward to doing some more.

“Bottlebulb – Temp Title” – Belinda Lindhardt

This weekend’s painting session, inspired by some beautiful Australian Bottle Brush (I think) bulbs I found while out one day.

Something different, What do you think?

What does it say to you?

My shop contains  prints, greeting cards and posts cards available for sale.

All of my prints are printed here in the studio on special paper which costs a fortune and on a special printer with inks that I am told are supposed to last up to 100years.
So these arent your standard prints, they are a bit special

The greeting cards and postcards are combination of cards I have printed here inhouse as well as those done by a Rebbubble printing. There is a difference in printing quality out there these days…  I wanted to keep my standard very high in terms of the quality that the customer is getting, Redbubble is one I have found that meets that standard. So hence  I have been happy to take those on as part of my shop.

I will be adding to the shop, consistently and I am  planning on listing the original artworks I have for sale here in the studio in the shop as well.

It’s really been a challenging process to get everything up there as well as all of the configurations with shipping and combining items etc. I really wanted to make it of value to the customers. So please help me out if you have any feedback at all I would looove to receive it

To get to the shop go to: http://shop.belindalindhardt.com.au/

For all my blog and facebook readers I have some discount codes simply add these in on the checkout:

I am offering 15% discount on 4 or more greeting cards – just chose a 4 pack.

…If you buy 2 or more art prints receive 10% discount – use code:

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If you are local to me wish to save on shipping use code:

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I wanted to offer this so that it means I will give you your order when I next see you or  we can
arrange pickup.

This will be the 3rd year running the workshops I am really excited, last year I had some attendees come back from the previous year so this round of workshops I want to do something different to follow up from that, as well as a session for the beginners as well.

Details to come…

Exciting! woot!