Veronica Colvin

Contemporary Realist Painter

Archives for August 2023

Naked & Nude Art Prize Exhibition

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Thrilled that I’m a finalist in the Naked & Nude Art Prize with my digital oil painting “See Me”! 

Congrats to all the finalists and looking forward to seeing the exhibition at the Manning Regional Art Gallery. The exhibition runs from 2 Sept – 15 Oct.

Artist Statement

I created See Me in April this year after a 1.5 year period that was extremely difficult for my family. I had to let my art practice go while I managed the situation.

See Me is finally having the time to refocus on myself and my art practice. I was ready to create and focus on what I love.

It was very important to me that the model have a strong and direct gaze, drawing the viewer in and challenging them to see “her” – directly.

The nakedness of the model represents confidence – but at the same time guardedness. Yes, I want you to See Me, but I will choose who I let “See Me”.

Creating Colour 2 – A Practical Guide for Beginner and Intermediate Painters

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The video recording is now available on the Colour Society of Australia YouTube – NSW Division channel, and like all of the webinars from our Creating Colours series, it will remain permanently available to the public. 

Jean produced and presented a wonderful presentation discussing how oil pigments work and the challenges we face as oil painters working with them.

We had an amazing response – with registrants from 19 countries. Topics covered outlined below:

  • Deciphering labelling on paint tubes (pigment codes, ‘Permanence’, ‘Opacity’, additives)
  • Colour spaces and basic language  for talking about paints, their colours and handling: Munsell, NCS, hue, value, chroma, saturation; rheology
  • Single paints: (Paint is not the same as Colour!) Mass tone, undertone.
  • Two-paint mixing: “tints”, “shades”, “tones”, combinations of chromatic paints, pitfalls and opportunities when using complementaries to reduce chroma. High and low-chroma mixing curves.
  • Three-paint mixing; how to produce all possible hues. Triples that give “good”/high chroma hue circles. Beginning to think about palettes.
  • Palettes: issues to consider when constructing and evaluating your own palette. (This talk will be “palette agnostic” – no particular palette is being presented as being the best, rather tools are provided for painters to think about the palette that best suits their needs and skills at the time.)
  • Basic colour matching.