original and unique artworks
Updates on Fern Smith’s art activities
Tuesday 23 February 6-8 Tap Gallery
Tides Turn
‘a queer take on mermaids’
Opening Night
Tuesday 23 February 2016
Opening Night: 6-8 pm
Creative workshops @ TAP
By Wolf and Fern 2- 4pm
Wednesday 24 – Fern
Thursday 25 – Wolf
Friday 26 – Fern
Saturday 27 – Artist chats Wolf and Fern
Sunday 28 – Afternoon closing dinks
TAP GALLERY
248 Palmer St,
Darlinghurst NSW 2010
Open daily
Gallery: 10am – 6 pm daily
248 Palmer St,
Darlinghurst NSW 2010
I lost a lot of digital artwork when I got with some horrid ransom malware about three weeks ago. So it is a process of discovery and renewal. I found a small file size of ‘strident’ on an email I sent. So I copied the black line and started over again. I have really enjoyed the process; now I am emotionally far enough away. It has a sense of lightness the old one didn’t have. I love the colour texture and movement in the skin of the new ‘strident’ it has more of a watery feel. Here is a small extract of her.
I wonder how the background will go?
New window exhibition at FernArtz studio – artworks by Fern Smith
Fern Smith made the oil paint from pigments and ochres. The pigments are all ‘safe’ by the ASTM standard. No solvents were used.
If you would like to to make a batch of your own oil paint book in a workshop.
To get your work ready to show takes quite some time. You need those words that describe your work; what it is, what medium, when you did and why you did it. I just finished applying to the Kilgour portrait prize the artwork image is in the last post. Here are some opening line versions. The two hundred and fifty word statement took as long as the painting itself.
Draft 2 – ‘Councillor Sue Bolton’ by Fern Smith is an opaque watercolour on cotton. Smith’s work repositions old art technologies from Asia, turn of the twentieth century banner art and the iconic Chinese revolutionary poster art to create an interpretation and synthesis of Councillor Sue Bolton…’
Draft 3 – ‘Fern Smith has created a portrait of ‘Councillor Sue Bolton’ that is both contemporary and traditional with an international flavour. The portrait is an opaque watercolour on cotton, eighty six centimetres wide by one thousand and thirty centimetres high….’