'Flights of Fancy' continues'

Extended! 

I am very pleased that Tacit Galleries has extended the run of my solo exhibition 'Flights of Fancy' by a further two weeks. The show will now be available until September 1 in Gallery 7 at Tacit - so if you have not yet had the opportunity to visit now is your chance!

Perhaps you would like to come along and chat with me about my work? I will be at the opening event on Wednesday 21, 6.30 to 8 pm.  Would love to see you there!

'Eyrie' : Graphite pencil on paper from 'Flights of Fancy'

Three views

Nest Study - Macro to Micro

My Wednesday and Friday classes have been working with graphite pencil in small format drawings that show 3 views of one subject - macro to micro. Each student selected their own subject and worked on one drawing per session (A5 size) aiming to completed it within the 2 hour session. My drawings/demos took a little longer than 2 hours, perhaps 3 hours each, zooming in on a view of an old blackbird nest in a winter street tree. The above image shows the three works mounted together. Below are the individual pieces.

Second Opening

Tonight, Wednesday August 7 6.30 - 8pm

If you missed the opening of 'Flights of Fancy', this evening there is a second late-night opportunity to view these works. I am very pleased to have had several sales - so if there was a work you were interested don't miss out! Check out Tacit's FB page here.

Tacit will be showcasing 4 new artists while mine continues another 2 weeks. One of the artists' featured is Terry Beer - he one of my favourite contemporary graphite pencil artists. He does fabulous work with reflections, flowers and fruit - a must see.

So why not pop along tonight, have a look around and say hello?

'Bubbles' - graphite and colour pencil on rag paper
SOLD - thank you Glenda!

Opening night

Tacit Galleries 'Flights of Fancy'

It was a great night last night at the opening - I arrived early and took a few shots of the gallery before it got too crowded to show you how the exhibition looks - fabulous! I was really pleased with how Tim and Keith hung and curated the works. The space is excellent and showcases my drawings well. And it did get crowed 10 minutes later! Thank you to all my friends and supporters who came, your being there was much appreciated.

Tonight's the night!

'Flights of Fancy' opens tonight

Tonight's the night, the Opening of my solo exhibition 'Flights of Fancy' at Tacit Galleries, 123a Gipps Street, Collingwood. 6.30 to 8.30pm.  Come along and join me in a glass of wine and view my latest body of steam punk styled works. All welcome and would love to see you there. To whet your appetite, a sneak preview of of my favourite works in this collection 'Hive'.

Title: Hive - Medium: Graphite with selected colour on paper

Tune in to 88.3 this Friday 12/7/19

Linda on the 'wireless'!

Set your radio dials to 88.3 Southern FM at 10 am during the Friday Magazine program and hear me chat with Graeme Johnston about my art, life and upcoming exhibition at Tacit Galleries. If you cannot tune in at 10 am, or are out of radio range, there will be a podcast version uploaded to the website  available all next week.

And a sneak peek at a work from my upcoming 'Flights of Fancy' exhibition opening on Wednesday, July 24. Come along and say hello!

'Lead Balloon' Graphite pencil drawing by Linda Weil

Art Shop Window

Shop front window display in Southland

For those of you who live in the South East Suburbs of Melbourne, you can see some of my graphite pencil work on display in the front window of Riot Art in Southland Shopping Centre

Solo Exhibition at Tacit Galleries

Opening night Wednesday July 24, 6.30 pm

Please join me on opening night - share a wine and view my latest works in 'Flights of Fancy'.
A little bit animal, very mechanical and quite fantastical!

All welcome.

Colour Pencil continued

Layering with line - fur study Lion Cub WIP

This is a work in progress that I have been developing with my Wednesday after, noon and Friday evening classes. Building on the layering theory of previous lessons, we have been using line only to express the feeling of fur in a lion cub portrait. This work uses a limited palette of colours - Staedler Mars Karat pencils #16, #49, #72, #59 (Gold Ochre, Ochre, Red Ochre, Blue Green). Detail and tone is enhanced with graphite pencils 2H, HB, F, 2B and 4B.

The work is about 70% completed - as we are moving onto an new project next week I hope to finish this in my own time once my works for my upcoming solo at Tacit  July are finished Opening night is July 24.

Layering Colour Pencil

Capsicum Still life

Previous blog post showed the first exercise I ran in Term 2 - a single vegetable in layered colour pencil on hot press paper. Our second subject was to expand on this exercise and create a pleasing composition of a variety of vegetables or fruits and render them using colour pencil techniques.

I choose to continue the capsicum theme and selected a variety of sweet and hot varieties from my local greengrocer and from my backyard garden (the little knobbly red and large red ones).

The resulting drawing is approximately A3 size on 300gsm Lana cold press paper. Pencils used were Prismacolor Premier and Prismacolor Verithin.