ART by Jude Tulloch

Tag: All things creative

  • Colour and Glazing

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    This is an exercise in colour mixing, glazing and paint application techniques. I did it last weekend at a two day workshop at the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane run by Victorian artist Catherine Hamilton. What an amazing array of colours from a restricted pallette of Cerulean Blue, Cadmuim Yellow Medium and Quinacridone Magenta. The…

  • Velazquez

    Velazquez

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    Standing in front of Las Meninas, the massive work of Baroque Spanish Court painter Velazquez is a humbling and awe inspiring experience. The reproductions of the painting in books did not prepare me for the luminous quality, the complex composition, and the incredible technical skill. The setting of the painting is a large room in the Royal…

  • A reluctant blogger

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    There is something highly seductive about the business of blogging. There-in lies my reluctance as a blogger. Why then, did I create this site? It marks a turning point for me; a serious commitment to my art. In the past my relationship to art was a de facto one, sometimes committed, but often estranged. Like…

  • Nature’s dancing water spirit

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    A dragon, a dancing water spirit, what will this photographic image become when it works its way into my artwork? Until I travelled in a small plane to the shores of Lake Eyre in 2011, I had no idea why the S. E. corner of Queensland bore the name the Channel Country. A vast, sparsely populated…