Using a combination of media, move beyond the visual representation of your subject. Become a visual storyteller instead. Creating a narrative in your artwork is exciting! Have you always wanted to paint artworks that create an interpretation of our world? In this painting course, you can soar with your own ideas. Be emotive and show expression in contemporary painting practice.
Use integrated mixed media in an acrylic painting, with interdisciplinary techniques. Explore, research and drive your own visual inquiry. Accomplished artist, illustrator and arts educator, Leanne will demonstrate, guide and support you to use a tapestry of photo references, build a strong design and composition, develop mood driven colour relationships, assist in solving mid-painting issues, then complete your painting with confidence.
You will take home skills and inspiration to push your own practice into painting with narrative.
Leanne White showcases her love of the Australian bush. Her artwork is a result of a lifetime of studying flora, fauna and the natural landscape. Some paintings and drawings are close definitions with fine detail, developing the narrative. Others are vast landscapes, emotive and alluring with the changing of seasons and ambient light. Within the landscapes and, true to the wildlife habitat, is the acknowledgement of the biodiversity of flora across the country. Leanne’s style is minute detail.
Leanne White is an accomplished Children’s Book Illustrator. In her gallery, in the heart of the historic town of Nannup, Leanne exhibits her fine art paintings, along with her illustrated picture books. She often has one or two portfolios on display, to view the illustrations as roughs and then completed artworks before graphic design and printing is commenced. Leanne is often in the gallery/studio painting.
A practising artist for 35 years, Leanne embraces all paint and drawing mediums on a variety of surfaces, with a love for the fluid spontaneity of watercolours and inks, the delicious consistency of oil painting or the instant possibilities and results of acrylics.
Leanne is an experienced art educator, teaching art in schools for 27 years. The last 10 years she has taught adults in art groups across the state.