CATHERINE HARDING

I recently helped a client complete this picture of Jack for her friend. Jack sadly passed away a few months ago, but we hope this...

Today the aim was expressive painting with a conventional flower shape. Janene has decided to turn hers into a card.

After having recently been introduced to the eclectic music of Bob Dylan, I followed it up with another "rock star"painting for a friend.

This week we moved onto Digital art. Rather than re-painting Ray with a keyboard in the background. We created a new painting of just a...

Just finished wire wrapping a Cabochon cut from Ribbonstone. Quite a process from a slab to the end product but some things are worth it!

Janene and I worked on a portrait of Ray Manzarek, the band's keyboardist, and it can be argued, the most important musical element....

Ink and watercolour on watercolour paper. After watching the Doors movie, and thinking of an illustration for a friend's website that...

The last two art sessions Janene and I re-created a favourite photo into a painting - Janene and Kido.

I recently composed a collage style painting for a friend's birthday present. Whilst the focus was on his new and previous Mini and a...

This week Janene and I looked at colour theory with a blue/orange palette and adding white (tint) with acrylics. It was also...

As a change from painting we tried some graphite pencil sketches of Bart. He was a very good model and posed quietly for quite a...

One of my strategies when teaching is to build techniques gradually. Here Janene practiced mixing colours, background painting and...

After a brief walk in Minippi parklands to collect some leaves to use as templates. We headed back to have some fun mixing colours. The...

My latest journey into combining gemstones and jewellery, this time with no wire. The large stone in the centre is tourminalated quartz...

Janene's recent creation.

One thing I love creating is mythical creatures, particularly dragons. This week I combined wire work and beading into a dragon pendant....

Remember the beautiful illuminated manuscripts full of ornate letters, gold leaf and ornate floral motifs? The Brisbane library at Mt...

Last week I worked on a cubism style portrait. Working from the masterpieces by Picasso - "Bust of a Woman" and "Girl with a Mandolin" I...

Leanne and Judy tested out my assistant painting skills yesterday evening, painting pets. I think they did really well!

Main picture elaborate pendant with precious stone. Bottom left - simple but ornate. Bottom right addition of Bodhi leaf symbol. As...