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CATHERINE HARDING

Artist and Creator

“Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse

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Memories of Jack

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...

Expressive acrylics

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

Bob Dylan

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

Digital Creations

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...

Wire wrapping cabochon

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!

Behind the Doors

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

Jim Morrison - Dionysus?

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

Re-creating the Past

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

Playing with colour schemes

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

Graphite sketching

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...

Assistants in Art

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

Playing with colour

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...

Micro Macrame

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

Kido

Janene's recent creation.

Mythical Creatures

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

Botanical Illuminations

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

Man with a Tennis Racquet

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...

Paint and Sip

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

Jewellery and ancient symbols

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

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