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YOUR COURSE TUTOR
Denise Vanderlugt
Denise lived in the Whitsundays, Queensland until two years ago. She now resides in Hobart Tasmania, and has been working as a full-time artist since 1982.
This move has created a wonderful new artistic challenge in a totally different environmental landscape. As a gardener, Denise is enjoying learning about Tasmanian indigenous native plants that attract the Island's birds, insects and animals.
Learning new colour combinations with changes in the cooler environment, these are all a new adventure for the creative mind who took her studio stash with her to Tasmania. Denise is drawn naturally to images of the natural world, and in Queensland was inspired by her own large bush garden. Now, a new garden and mountains are ready to inspire, leaving the adventure of the tropical bush for cold climate plant life.
She works in many mediums, with quilt making as her primary practice. Her other pursuits are painting and collage, coiled basketry, artists’ books and printmaking. All this combined knowledge goes into her own practice of collage using watercolour, which she developed to colour the papers she uses for her collage works.
In 2007, Denise published her children’s book ‘WHERE RAINBOWS LIVE’, for which she received two international awards for self-publishing. It is now in it’s second edition.
Denise has been exhibiting in many exhibitions over the years plus her work has been featured in books and magazines in Australia and overseas.
“Denise is an exceptional teacher. She created a warm and supportive classroom climate and encouraged us to experiment with various techniques and processes to create beautiful works of art. ”
“Denise is inspiring and always coming up with new ways for us to learn and express ourselves. I have done this course 6 times now because Denise is such a great tutor. I feel like I learn new things every year and still feel excited about the possibilities.”
“Denise was a wonderful tutor, and what she introduced us to was extraordinary! It was much more than creative collage I would say it is more like a mixed media course.”
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Open to all levels of creative experience, Denise will take you through the fundamentals of colour, design and composition to prepare you to fully immerse yourself in the creative collaging process.
In abstract or realistic works, play with colour, texture, images and discarded ephemera, and combine them with patterned paper and paint.
Add drawn and stitched lines to create a completed two-dimensional image.
Be free to create, combining your life experiences with new skills.
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Please bring the following on your first day of class:
PAINTING
Watercolour paints
Palette
Brushes large and small
If you prefer to work with acrylics, bring them with the appropriate brushes.
PAPER
A3 pad of 300gsm watercolour paper
A4 pad of 120gsm watercolour paper
Fifty sheets of A4 computer printing paper
Optional – small pieces of paper to work on, plus extra for trials. Bring as much as you think you will need for five-days, you can also be adventurous with the base you work on.
COLLAGE MATERIALS
Variety of interesting papers: (suggestions only) wallpaper, wrapping paper, handmade papers, coloured papers, fancy papers, old envelopes, old sheet music, old maps, old photos, old calendars, scrap drawings, scrap prints, newspaper, magazines with photos, tear outs, old books, tissue paper, foil chocolate wrappers, brown paper, corrugated cardboard
If you sew - threads in variety of colours as well as bits of fabric and fabric scissors, different size chenille needles for sewing through work surface
GENERAL SUPPLIES
Marking pens and pencils
Notebook and pen/pencil
Cover for the table: old sheet, plastic shower curtain, newspapers
PVA Aquadhere glue – available at hardware shops (If you have an allergy to the chemicals in Aquadhere glue, please bring an alternative. Paper glue that is neutral pH will work)
Variety of different sized cheap bristle brushes for gluing
Small towel and paper towels for working with watercolour paints
Rags for glue clean up, plastic bag for a wet rag
Old newspapers or an old telephone book for gluing, and to keep work surfaces clean
Two tall water jars – one for watercolour, one for glue brushes
Apron or old shirt
Paper scissors large and small
Needle nose tweezers
Cutting board (no larger than A3)
Retractable blade knife
Awl – a sharp implement available at haberdashery or fabric shops
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No experience required.
