LANDSCAPE WITH VITALITY with Pamela Fairburn

LANDSCAPE WITH VITALITY

Friday 30 April 2021

• Venue: Tramshed Hall, 1395A Pittwater Rd, Narrabeen
• Time: 9:30 am – 4:00pm
• Morning Tea included – BYO Mug & Lunch
• Cost: $60pp Members; $75 Non-Members
• PLEASE BOOK & PAY BY 23 APRIL 2021

Pamela is a watercolour and mixed media artist, who has been working in the Visual Arts and Art Education arena for over 40 years. She is founder of the Woodford Bay Art Group, Sydney and lives, paints and teaches in Longueville, NSW. She has been involved in numerous group and solo exhibitions and her paintings and won many awards and prizes including the Council Art Prize, the major prize at the Lane Cove Art Award 2019.

Born in Sydney, Pamela cannot remember anytime that she wasn’t drawing, painting or creating. She was designing and making dolls’ houses, dolls dresses, cubbies in backyard trees or sculpting mudpies that became little pottery objects or pots …generally making and creating wonderful messes!

Fascinated with experiencing new places, people and exploring the wider world she organises both national and international art and painting tours. She also enjoy exploring the art, the archaeology, the history, the cultures and the artists of those far countries. In her artistic pursuit, she has experiments with various mediums such as wax, paper, fabric, gouache, acrylic paint, acrylic mediums and textured gessoes. Her colour pallet, over the years, has become stronger and more vibrant. She loves the fluid spontaneous water-infused colour of watercolour painting, as it very quickly can express a feeling, a movement, a landscape an object or a person. Drawing and mark-making is so important to Pamela, it as the bones and structure of a painting and she likes to keep incorporating it into the build-up of the concept, to re-find and refine the subject. She also like to involve line and drawing throughout the whole painting process.

In this workshop you will be painting and drawing a landscape in a loose and experimental way. You will be encouraged to try new techniques and to develop your own. Pamela will suggest you use a variety of materials, most of which you probably already own! Bring the materials you have as you can choose to paint in watercolours, acrylics or gouache.

MATERIALS LIST: (Recommended only – bring what you have & others will share if you are missing something)

You don’t need all of the below. Bring paints and equipment that you are most comfortable with.
Paints:

• Artist Quality Watercolours eg. Windsor & Newton or Daniel Smith (approx. 6 different colours).
  • Or
• Artist Quality Acrylics eg. Liquitex, Golden, Finity or Matisse. Acrylic Medium to mix in eg. Gel medium.
  • Or
• Gouache Paints or Designer Colours.

Brushes/Sponges:

• For Watercolours: 1 large mop brush, 1 medium mop brush, 1 thin rigger brush, 1 fan brush.
• For Acrylics: 1 large flat bristle brush, 1 medium flat bristle brush, 1 fine bristle brush, 1 palette knife, 1 fan brush
• 1 Sea sponge.

Drawing Materials: Not all of these will be needed, just bring some…

• Pencils – 2B, 6B; Woolf’s Carbon Pencil; 2 or 3 Watercolour Pencils.
• Pastels – Set of Oil Pastels; Wax Pastels or 1 x Candle.
• Charcoal – 2 x Sticks Willow Charcoal

Papers:

• Watercolour Paper – block or pad eg. 300gsm Arches Waterford, Saunders or Fabriano are good brands.
• Individual sheets of paper can be attached with masking tape to light gatorboard/coreboard.

Canvases

• For Acrylic painting – prepared canvas boards or gatorboard.

Extras:

• Plastic palette or large icecream lid (icecream base can contain your paints).
• Small Water bottle with lid for water.
• Spray bottle or spray nozzle from spray and wipe container.
• 4 large bulldog clips.
• Masking tape.
• Scissors & craft knife or Stanley knife.
• Small notepad/drawing pad

NOTE: If you don’t have all the items on the materials list – DON’T PANIC! – Others will be able to share with you.

PLEASE BOOK & PAY BY FRIDAY 23 APRIL 2021
TO BOOK YOUR PLACE
Contact LYNDALL CLEGG on 0400 297 713 or lyndallClegg03@gmail.com

TO PAY
Contact PETER McCROSSIN on 0418 225 117 or petermccrossin28@gmail.com. See below for payment details.
Your payment can be made either by Direct Deposit to:

• Northern Beaches Art Society
• BSB: 062-707
• Account No.: 1000 4970
• (Please include ‘FAIRBURN – Your Surname’ as the description)

Or send your cheque to: Treasurer

• PETER McCROSSIN
• 28/26 Macpherson Street
• WARRIEWOOD NSW 2102

Please send Peter an email to petermccrossin28@gmail.com, when your payment has been made.