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August 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Barbara Nowak<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My journey with art started very suddenly in 2012. It was something I had never considered & certainly don\u2019t remember ever being involved in art at school. Maybe, that is old age creeping in, or just simply that my efforts weren\u2019t up to remembering!!!!
I was out to dinner with a group of artists, including Alan & Jean Close and I was dared to \u2018give it a go\u2019. I can remember Alan doing a caricature of me on a paper napkin at the other end of the table and when he dropped it in front of me he said \u2018I can teach anyone\u2019 (there might have been a beer or two involved) \u2026\u2026.but he did prove himself correct.
I initially wanted to join Alan at an abstract class at Monash he was tutoring, but as this was no longer running, I joined him at Artstream at Glen Park Community Centre instead. Probably a better move as I have since learnt that I enjoy detailed work.
Each term I follow the exercise proposed by Alan, no matter what medium, as I came into art with no experience or knowledge whatsoever.
I am a very active sportsperson and love the outdoors, but I find art very therapeutic when I do sit down to do some painting. I highly recommend others give this a go no matter what level. We have some amazing classes at WAA that encourage, confidence building and cater to the extreme beginner.
I need to thank Alan Close for his patience and expert tuition and giving that LITTLE push to get me involved with the publicity WAA and to Fiona McVilly Cox, who then twisted my arm behind my back to get me to agree to go on Committee. I wasn\u2019t sure about either initially, but am enjoying my involvement and the three of us on publicity and marketing have become firm friends with lots of laughs together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chloe – PENCIL
A Cavoodle that stays with me
periodically. Owners bought the
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Ray – Pastel
My brother. A special person in
my life and I did this as a surprise
one Xmas.
I find the continual build up of
pastel to get the features and
colouring challenging but fun.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Freddy Mercury – Acrylic (right)
Loved the colours & the iconic
stance with the hand in the air.
Had to give it a go.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harrison Ford – CHARCOAL (left)
The scraggy features provided a
challenge, so had to give this a shot.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Scratch – above & below<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Uncle Ludwig – PASTELS<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Oscar – Scratch
This one, trained by a dog nanny, was a very very well
trained snoodle that I looked from time to time. Oscar
has now passed on & his owners bought this artwork<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Parrot – Pastel
Loved the detail and passionate about birds, so wanted
to give it a go.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A little harder to get the detail going on
watercolour paper without too much wash,
but pleased with the results<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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August 2022 Barbara Nowak My journey with art started very suddenly in 2012. It was something I had never considered & certainly don\u2019t remember ever being involved in art at school. Maybe, that is old age creeping in, or just simply that my efforts weren\u2019t up to remembering!!!!I was out to dinner with a group […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-without-title","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1571","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitehorsearts.info\/staging\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitehorsearts.info\/staging\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitehorsearts.info\/staging\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitehorsearts.info\/staging\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitehorsearts.info\/staging\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whitehorsearts.info\/staging\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"https:\/\/whitehorsearts.info\/staging\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1571\/revisions\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitehorsearts.info\/staging\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}