SA Artist magazine Issue 38 December 2018

Issue No.38 December 2018 R55.00 incl vat

FEATURED ARTISTS: Angela Banks Boitumelo Diseko • Tisha Marshall Belinda de la Mare • Ditshupo Mogapi

• Polychromos demonstration • Copyright in South Africa • All about mediums for oils

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A note from the studio 4 Feedback 5 Quick Art Quiz 5 What’s Happening?

6 FEATURED ARTIST: BOITUMELO DISEKO 10 Gift ideas and giveaways 13 FEATURED ARTIST: TISHA MARSHALL 17 Business of Art: MALCOLM DEWEY 20 FEATURED ARTIST: ANGELA BANKS 23 MASSA 28 Oil painting essentials: BRENT DODD 30 2

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Copyright: Andre Myburgh IWSSA 2nd Exhibition FEATURED ARTIST: BELINDA DE LA MARE Getting started with mediums for oils Night of 1000 drawings GRANT WOOD Watercolour workshop Art DVD’s and books FEATURED ARTIST: DITSHUPO MOGAPI Quiz answers Life of a working artist: ANA DE VLIEG Student’s Gallery Q&A 2019 Workshop Directory Classes and Workshops

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FEATURED ARTIST: BOITUMELO DISEKO

ink drawings

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Marikana:

memory & landscape

Boitumelo Diseko is currently completing her Fine Arts degree at the University of Pretoria. She uses contour lines to form images, as she examines the link between memory and landscapes.

The body of work, Marikana, references the incident that transpired on 16 August 2012 at the Lonmin mine in Marikana.

As part of ongoing series violent incidents between the South African Police Services, Lonmin security and members of the National Union of Mineworkers, the fatal strike resulted in mine workers being gunned down and killed. Landscape is victim and also a spectator of what happens on it, in this case Marikana is both a victim and a spectator due to the massacre that occurred. (Aronowicz 2009: 1) The body of work comprises a series of line drawings executed on the wall, and also mounted drawings plus an installation which covers the floor area of a room. The names of some of the miners who died are on hard hats. Portrayed in black line 11

Next page top: Reminisce: Marikana 60 x 90 cm Ink on wall

Above: Marikana 1x2m ink on paper

Next page bottom: Embedded: Marikana 70 x 80 cm Ink on wall

Below: Rest 21 x 29.7 cm ink on paper

FEATURED ARTIST: TISHA MARSHALL

inspiration

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A selection of the portraits which won Tisha the First Place Award at the Bathurst Show.

Opposite: Watercolour paintings

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FEATURED ARTIST: ANGELA BANKS

oils

cover artist

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Above: The 4 horsemen 1.3 x 1.4m oil on canvas

Above right: An apple a day and then we pray (detail) 70 x 45 cm oil on canvas

Below: Reverence 1 x 1.8 m oil on canvas

Opposite top: The Sixth Sense 1.1 x 1.5m oil on canvas

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Opposite bottom: Patience 80 x 65 cm charcoal on paper

coloured pencils

FEATURED ARTIST: BELINDA DE LA MARE

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Above: Focus 35cm x46cm

Above centre: Rock a Dune 30cm x 23cm;

Above right: Tucked up 35cm x 46cm

Opposite right: Contemplation** 36cm x 26cm

Below: Thirst** 29cm x 33cm

Below right: Tenderness** 34cm x 40cm

Opposite top left: Boo 24cm x 28cm

Opposite bottom: Forecastle 31cm x 44cm

**Photo credit Kent Keller

All drawings: Polychromos on Canson Mi-Teintes paper

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TIPS AND TECHNIQUES

PART 2 Over the past 45 or so years I have had some amazing highs and a few unavoidable lows as well, during the process of creating a work of art, using my favourite medium – watercolours!

The aim of this series is to give you the confidence to approach your favourite painting subject and apply your newly learned skills to paper and to be able to hopefully avoid the more obvious pitfalls which sometimes occur in watercolour and cause your painting to end up in a frustratingly muddy mess!

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COLOUR PALETTES

COMPLIMENTARY COLOURS

Use a limited palette when beginning as a watercolourist as most colours can be mixed from red, blue and yellow (primary colours).

I use the following basic colour range:

Brilliant contrasts are achieved by using complimentary (opposite) colours in a painting. Remember that a colour’s complimentary colour is created by mixing the other 2 primary colours together.

Examples: 1. The complimentary colour of red is green (yellow and blue)

Raw Sienna

Alizarin Crimson

Yellow Ochre

Cobalt Blue

Cadmium Yellow

French Ultramarine

2. The complimentary colour of yellow is purple (Blue and red)

Cadmium Red

Hooker’s Green

YAP (Yellow And Purple)

Cadmium Orange

Green Gold

3. The complimentary colour of blue is orange (yellow and red)

Burnt Sienna Vandyke Brown

for the darker shades

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RAG (Red And Green)

BO (Blue Orange)

Indigo

Some of these combinations are as follows: • Cool blue and warm yellow (or orange) • Warm blue and cool red • Warm red and cool green(cool) • Warm yellow and cool violet.

Neutral Tint

There are lots of other colours for different hues and you may want to grow your palette as you become more professional and your confidence grows.

BRUSHES

WASH BRUSH or HAKE A cheap varnish brush from the hardware store will suffice. You can remove some bristles with a Stanley knife to streamline the brush.

10mm and 25mm FLAT BRUSH Can be a good synthetic quality.

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NO. 2, 6 and 12 ROUND Synthetic or Sable (expensive).

NUMBER 1 RIGGER For fine detail.

INTERNATIONAL ARTIST: DITSHUPO MOGAPI

Botswana

Above: Within the white sky 103 x 155 cm acrylic on canvas

Right: Cultured 145 x 90cm mixed media

the sky is

the limit

Ditshupo Mogapi, born in Selebi Phikwe in Botswana, developed his love of art in high school, where he displayed outstanding talent. He is currently an active member of Thapong Visual Arts Centre in Gaborone. Here he has been exposed to different art forms both traditional and contemporary. This has seen him dabbling in illustration, graphic design, photography and sculpture which has resulted in new projects and unique works of art.

Other projects he has completed in Botswana include art murals endorsed by the Ministry of Sports and Culture; commissioned works for both the Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism, and the Ministry of Agriculture.

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students gallery

A monthly selection of art by talented high school students in South Africa.

this month’s winner

“A-5812” by Leah Teeger; 850 x 600mm; Pen on Paper Hirsch Lyons Girls School; Johannesburg Ms Fiona Couldridge

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Above: ‘O praise His name’ 61 x 77 cm Oil on Canvas

by Calista Graham Collegiate Girl’s High School, Port Elizabeth Art Teacher: Mrs Sharon Webb Right: ‘Go green’ 40.5 x 29 cm charcoal and pastel

by Karita Hayward Hoërskool Wesvalia, Klerksdorp Art Teacher: Marco Kühn Far right: ‘Little Giraffe’

by Chanté Nieuwhof Hoërskool Overkruin, Pretoria Art Teacher: I. Nel