Meet your hosts
Tina Moran, a proud Anaiwan woman, rartist and Oorala Centre staff member.
Beven Quinlan an artist and exhibitions curator at the Armidale
Aboriginal Cultural Centre & Keeping Place.
Tina and Bevan want to share their love of art and will demonstrate their process for creating an art work which you can follow along with.
Step 1
- Prepare your workspace, put some newspaper, an old sheet or a plastic cloth on your workbench to protect the work area
- Have a jar or plastic dish of water available to clean your brushes with.
- Keep a rag handy (preferably cotton) to clean up with.
Step 2
- Open up the blank canvas
- Paint the canvas with a background colour of your choosing. Dry thoroughly. (it is best to do a couple of thinner layers and let each dry before applying the next layer.)
- Clean your brushes in water after use.
Step 3
- Make your background more interesting by adding one or more colours to the coloured canvas by dabbing with a sponge to make a pattern.
- Allow the canvas to dry thoroughly
- Clean your sponge with water.
Step 4
- Draw or paint the major symbols you want to use to tell your story,
- You can copy the outline image of your totem if you wish.
- Remember to get creative and try different colours.
Step 5
- Add the finer details to the symbols and to the background of your work.
- If you want to get even more creative, add dots.
- ensure that when you dot to have your forearm up off the painting so that you don’t smudge any wet paint,
- you may want to turn your painting in different directions so it will be easier to work
- work from several different angles.
- Keep painting yet take the time to stop to look at the picture.
- let the layers dry along the way.
- When you feel the picture is complete put it somewhere where you can walk past it. You will find out pretty quickly if it is finished or if there is a little more that you wish to add.
