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Michelle Walker
Artist | Author | Creativity Coach

michelle@michellewalker.com.au
Phone: +61 407 119 795

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Looking at the details of my 3 big works in progre

Looking at the details of my 3 big works in progress… they are acrylics on canvas, 1.2m x 90cm

Loved painting big, it felt so liberating. Permission for big expansive gestures with wide brushes loaded with paint. Mixing colours in tubs so I had enough volume to lay down. Even broke out the spray cans in an earlier layer.

Such joy.

My client who commissioned the work is coming in 2 weeks for a viewing, so I have the luxury of being able to tweak and make the details intriguing when you come in close.

Does anyone else love playing with the details?

Back in the studio laying down the first colours a

Back in the studio laying down the first colours and marks of a large triptych I’ve been commissioned to make.

The final palette will be blues and greens, so I’ve chosen a complimentary palette for this first layer - burnt umber, red gold & yellow ochre - over marks with a Lyra water soluble graphite and black inktense pencil.

Do you have a favourite way to start a painting?

🔆I’m documenting this with a video, that when finished will be on my YouTube channel. Don’t know how to find it? You can click on the bio and select art making videos button… or search for Michellewalkerart🔆

Daily walk - here’s today’s treasure… rusty

Daily walk - here’s today’s treasure… rusty wire (why DO I love anything #rusty ?), rusty caps flattened and beaten by tyres, some tradies set of drill bits still in their plastic holder, a rusty washer… and weathered bit of timber.

They all carry a story. They’ve all traveled. The patina of history

Finally found some time to catch up on my monochro

Finally found some time to catch up on my monochrome #sketchbook pages…

And now that I’m done, I’m loving the sunshine that’s peaking through the clouds. Thinking it’s time to go and stare at the blue in the sky for a bit! 🤗

How many times each week in the studio do we tackl

How many times each week in the studio do we tackle a task that requires learning new skills or getting proficient in a new technique… and for that to be absorbed into our art practice as it grows and evolves?

The delay between our learning and that new knowledge or skill becoming integrated can be months or years… so long that we forget.

Sometimes it’s good to stop and acknowledge how far we’ve come…

Without thinking about how far we still have to go ☺️

What new thing are you learning this week? 👩‍🎓🧠♥️

#Murwillumbah from above… my new home town… in

#Murwillumbah from above… my new home town… in oil paints on panel.

Today’s work I wanted to build on yesterday’s piece but create more depth.

I’ve discovered that doing more painting with oils and a thinning/ drying medium allows me to do the kind of brushwork I enjoy. Then the palette knife is good for the details of texture and marks in the areas I want the viewer’s eye to be drawn to.

Thank you @jeniefawcknerart for your helpful feedback and guidance 🤩

Since the 27 Feb (yes, the day before the first of

Since the 27 Feb (yes, the day before the first of the heart-breaking floods) #murwillumbah has been home.

This new abstract work in oils using impasto medium is me bridging my learning from @jeniefawcknerart back to my more usual abstract landscape work.

If you flick through you’ll see the work as it progressed. I always take process shots - they are a great way for me to learn and to ‘see’ what needs to happen next as I go along. There’s something about the frame on my iPhone and the scale change that really helps.

And I know I’m late to the party, but can I just say… Loving 🥰 working with #oilpaints.

Loose landscapes in oils happening in the studio w

Loose landscapes in oils happening in the studio with @jeniefawcknerart

Loving the class and the challenge of painting in a whole new way.

We are doing our own subject matter today - this pic of Wollumbin on Bundjalung country.

Flick through to see progress shots from where I began this morning.

New colour mix - Prussian blue + olive green - great colour for the shade of trees. Prussian blue, ultramarine blue and titanium white for the hills.

I don’t use Prussian blue in my acrylics favouring Paynes grey, but I’m loving this colour.

Still plenty to do this afternoon in the foreground details.

#naturesbeauty Vibrant colours from leaves of th

#naturesbeauty

Vibrant colours from leaves of the bleeding heart plant. Feeling a strong pull to red and red-browns today.

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