Are you new to drawing and painting? Drawing and painting are simply a series of skills, with a bucket load of know-how and practice. Start your journey by learning about the basics of drawing and design skills. Then begin! Embark on your own visual voyage. Draw, design, imagine elements and style to include in your own artwork. Explore techniques. Apply your ideas to painting and create your own unique vibe.
Anyone can draw and design. Choose your own subject and Leanne will coach you along your journey step by step. Even the most tentative painters will create a finished canvas painting to be proud of.
Leading into an acrylic painting, Leanne will provide some interesting media, demonstrate a myriad of techniques or direct you in your own inquiry. All to be incorporated into your final painting.
This will be a fun, all inclusive, hands on, vibrant painting course.
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.