tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43033202603505184282024-03-20T17:33:13.861+11:00SHF and ASMA - Artist in Residence programWelcome to the blog record of the Artist in Residence program, a joint initiative of the Sydney Heritage Fleet and the Australian Society of Marine Artists. In 2012 the program has taken a slightly different flavour: No Men Allowed! Eleven lady artists are taking part with an exhibition of their work opening on 17 November.ASMAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425059284630209811noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303320260350518428.post-70378367373082912032013-09-08T17:40:00.000+10:002013-09-08T17:40:22.495+10:00Artists in Residence 'James Craig' opening of exhibition 27/4/13<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />ASMAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425059284630209811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303320260350518428.post-85203499757190883512013-03-17T17:04:00.000+11:002013-04-02T10:12:19.400+11:00Exhibition SALT IN THE AIR 27 April - 4th May 2013<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At last - our exhibition date has been set! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on the 'tween' deck of the tall ship 'James Craig', opening 27th April </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We extend you an invitation to come along, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for the Official Opening by Tanya Plibersek MP at 2 pm on the Saturday 27th April, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">or during the following week before the show closes on the afternoon of Friday 3rd May.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 'James Craig' is moored alongside Wharf 7 at Pirramar Road, Pyrmont, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a wonderful opportunity to visit the ship and view the artwork. All work is for sale, with a percentage of the proceeds going to the Sydney Heritage Fleet to assist its valuable work in conserving the vessels that tell many stories of Sydney Harbour's past times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the meantime, we continue to work on the paintings - sorting, checking, framing, listing - and most importantly - making sure every work is signed! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and Jane was positioned high up on the HMAS 'Vampire'.</span></div>
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<br />ASMAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425059284630209811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303320260350518428.post-1199052983308462112012-10-08T06:45:00.001+11:002012-10-08T06:45:29.397+11:00Christine sketches maintenance work on 'Endeavour' and 'James Craig'<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Australian National Maritime Museum has made us very welcome, <br />and one morning in August some of the women artists met at there and <br />sketched and painted around the wharves. It was a very windy day,<br />so I was happy to snuggle up on the deck of the tall ship 'Endeavour' <br />and sketch from there. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have never used so much red paint!</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikvU2X_xfr1u3Bo-gJPEMt8ZWcwsHqlLcSJy2KSCxLEw8f-So1yFSigQl4KdbgL7S-onU9s4Wv_MU8HAneREcmIOU7BajlugBW6JGvZkWllIRbsgx1XiG-BvYdYq5rT-bB1nfhIiYOoH49/s1600/Endeavour,+maintenance+72+dpi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikvU2X_xfr1u3Bo-gJPEMt8ZWcwsHqlLcSJy2KSCxLEw8f-So1yFSigQl4KdbgL7S-onU9s4Wv_MU8HAneREcmIOU7BajlugBW6JGvZkWllIRbsgx1XiG-BvYdYq5rT-bB1nfhIiYOoH49/s320/Endeavour,+maintenance+72+dpi.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Over in the large building called 'Wharf 7', alongside the tall ship 'James Craig', </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was a lovely scene of 'boaty' clutter, and I settled into </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it is evocative of the Sydney Heritage Fleet's whole ethos. </span></div>
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<br />ASMAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425059284630209811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303320260350518428.post-6840070398063446622012-09-15T12:14:00.000+10:002012-09-15T12:14:39.200+10:00Elena Parashko looks through the porthole of 'John Oxley'<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in the busyness of our lives. I found much fuel for
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> An open porthole with cracked glass transported me to a
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ASMAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425059284630209811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303320260350518428.post-80441301649917025862012-09-10T12:13:00.002+10:002012-09-10T12:17:57.767+10:00Jane Bennett paints the 'Lady Hopetoun'<div style="text-align: center;">
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the <i>'Lady Hopetoun</i>' was the first vessel that was acquired by the Sydney
Heritage Fleet, it seemed appropriate to kick off my residency in earnest with
her portrait.</span></span></div>
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<a name='more'></a>ASMAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425059284630209811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303320260350518428.post-41863544910674120232012-09-10T12:00:00.000+10:002012-09-10T12:07:09.836+10:00At the Heritage Dock - first thoughts, by Marijke.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">After the tour, I</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">set up to paint</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">as I had brought all my painting gear.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> <span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I tried to capture what had been my first impression of the Rozelle site, and that was the enormous bulk of the <i>John Oxley</i>. Seeing it side on, but just the bow of the ship, it was almost an abstract shape of white, black and red, divided into sections by rivet heads. So that was what I painted the first day, but I did not finish it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I visited the site each Thursday and slowly got used to the enormity of the <i>John
Oxley</i>; this week I painted an almost glamorous picture of her beautiful
dry-dock shape - enhanced by sunlight and shadow and made more interesting with
all the cranes and scaffolding around her and even a bit of city skyline and
the Anzac Bridge. Getting the perspective right on this painting was the
hardest bit, I kept measuring against the Anzac Bridge and eventually got it
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perspective, just face to face. The <i>Lady Hopetoun</i> was below my field of vision,
so the most<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>difficult to get a decent
perspective as, due to the wall of steel behind me,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could not stand back far enough. Then the
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<a name='more'></a><br />ASMAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425059284630209811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303320260350518428.post-68175569904465316822012-09-10T11:48:00.000+10:002012-09-15T12:17:28.927+10:00Suzanne sketching 'Endeavour' at the North Wharf of the Australian National Maritime Museum<br />
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Freshly red-painted windows were laid out to dry on a bench - the golden afternoon light flooded the interior - here was a painting subject and I started work with pencil and watercolour .......<br />
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Back at home, I could take my time and develop the subject. Because the only available canvas was not a matching rectangle, I had to adapt the original sketch and bring the window frames more to the foreground; after all, that beautiful new red paint deserved pride of place.<br />
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I was amazed how difficult it was to paint the Lady Hopetoun at an angle, as her nose was nearly touching the wharf and it is difficult to get a good place to stand because of the forest of iron pipes that stand on the wharf in front of her...<br />
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Anyway I found a little 'inlet' and set up my easel and got to work getting her lovely lines onto my board. I was going great guns when the wind that was forecast came up and knocked over my easel, and paints and all my dirty painting water over the painting as well as over my clothes. That's when I packed up.<br />
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I was lucky I had taken a photo of her beautiful reflections before the wind came up, as they were needed to balance the composition. I was also lucky that I managed to fit her prow into the picture without foreshortening her, as I just started my composition with the lovely black chimney and hoped for the best.<br />
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A volunteer brought a little barge that he was balancing on whilst touching up her side, but when I included him in the work, the reflections were lost, so I took him out again.<br />
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Today is my first adventure of being an Artist in Residence for the Sydney Heritage Fleet at Rozelle Bay. I sign myself in at the huge shed and don a bright red safety helmet, which means I can't wear my usual painting hat with the shady brim, but never mind.</div>
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A plein-air artist can look like a beast of burden, bags attached to shoulders and weighing down each arm, all equipped for a good day's painting outside, the easel, canvasses, paints, bucket, brushes and of course some lunch, for this is an all-day affair, I have come a very long way today.</div>
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I wander around all the very important ships and boats - there is the huge John Oxley balancing high above me on rows of blocks, many angles that could become a painting. Then there is the Kanangra ferry which does not present well from her side, but then I discover her lovely face, wrinkles and all, and that's where I spent the day, face to face with the Kanangra. My easel was lightweight and wobbly and wedged into a tight corner where I watched, overcome by the industrious throngs of men who were refurbishing the boats. Bob and Peter said they had been there, working on the boats, for 20 years, almost a lifetime.</div>
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There was a pattern of hard shadow lines bending across her face and they were put in as soon as I had found her shape, for within 20 minutes it all moved east and the beautiful darks were getting away from me. Below her chin, reflections and rust dance and the light bounces back and I try to capture this in my painting. Instinct governs my palette and my brush filled my canvas with white, rust, slate and "She got the ferry green right!".</div>
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ASMAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425059284630209811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303320260350518428.post-53282043247809268332012-08-18T16:00:00.000+10:002012-08-19T07:55:51.592+10:00Day 1 – Jane Bennett and the SS ‘John Oxley’<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">On the first day Jane Bennett produced a finished work and impressed the others enormously!</span>
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