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Painting - Watercolours

Spend the afternoon with painter Elizabeth Barnett delving into the serenity and beauty of painting with watercolours.

Teacher: Elizabeth Barnett

Workshop Duration: Half Day

Description:  An introduction to watercolour painting with artist Elizabeth Barnett. Elizabeth will guide you through some watercolour basics including what materials to use, how to mix colours and developing your own style within the medium. This class is aimed at beginners who want a taster in watercolour painting or intermediates who want a different take on the medium. 

Materials: $40 material fee includes, a brush, pencil, eraser, watercolour paper and a palette with paints.

Takeaway: we will paint a little still life scene comprising of found objects, floral arrangements, fruit and foraged foliage.

Level:  Beginner 

Prerequisites: None

 

Painting - Watercolours

Spend the afternoon with painter Elizabeth Barnett delving into the serenity and beauty of painting with watercolours.

Teacher: Elizabeth Barnett

Workshop Duration: Half Day

Description:  An introduction to watercolour painting with artist Elizabeth Barnett. Elizabeth will guide you through some watercolour basics including what materials to use, how to mix colours and developing your own style within the medium. This class is aimed at beginners who want a taster in watercolour painting or intermediates who want a different take on the medium. 

Materials: $40 material fee includes, a brush, pencil, eraser, watercolour paper and a palette with paints.

Takeaway: we will paint a little still life scene comprising of found objects, floral arrangements, fruit and foraged foliage.

Level:  Beginner 

Prerequisites: None

 

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Making Fast Fashion: Some More Of The Grey
April 19, 2022
Making Fast Fashion: Some More Of The Grey
April 19, 2022

So I wrote last week a post asking “Is my making fast fashion?”. And then I did a video on Instagram discussing similar topics in a slightly different way. And as always, you lovely humans have helped me clarify some of my thinking with your thoughtful, clever commentary.

And while I think there is so much more to discuss, here are four key possibly-more-meta ideas that have come up for me out of those conversations.

In using the quote last week that suggested that there was no single answer, and suggesting that this was freeing, I really did mean that we should sit in the grey. Not that the lack of “an” answer to this question should mean we get to ignore the question but rather that the lack of “an” answer means that we need to keep asking bigger more beautiful questions. And keep asking them.

Is my making fast fashion?
Am I living my values or merely thinking them?
And how can I make those two things a little more aligned in this moment?

These are my big beautiful questions.

Yours might be different.

And importantly this leads to point 2.

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April 19, 2022
Is My Making Fast Fashion?
April 12, 2022
Is My Making Fast Fashion?
April 12, 2022

We all have the capacity - and often the desire - to deny truths that show us engaged in things we know aren’t ideal. To minimise, avoid, distract and rationalise our way to feeling OK with our choices and our behaviour.

And it makes sense. It’s human to avoid the hard stuff, especially when that hard stuff involves us changing behaviours we enjoy. I do it. Regularly. And I’ve been doing it regularly in my making, for many years, in many ways.

“The term fast fashion refers to ….speedy production of ….clothing, ….. in order to meet the latest and newest trends.”

I do this. I produce things in a speedy way in order to meet the latest and newest trends.

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April 12, 2022

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