Acrylic painting techniques and tutorial with Graham Austin OAM I Colour In Your Life

In this fine art TV show episode Graham Austin OAM is interviewed with Colour In Your Life about painting, drawing, art workshops, art tips and art techniques.

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Fine Art TV Series - Colour In Your Life
Season - 17
Episode - 06
Filmed on Location at - Green Point, NSW, Australia

Materials used:

I mostly use Matisse Acrylics.

For watercolours I also use Matisse Acrylics, thinned with water as transparent watercolour on mounted watercolour paper.

Graham Austin OAM work has been subconsciously influenced from his first time in the air.

It was a seaplane joy flight whilst on holidays down the south coast of NSW as a seven year old. The images were quite astounding and something he would never forget.

He saw the landscape made up with spots, dots and dashes. Rolling surf looked like cotton wool rolled into stringy strips. Trees were spots, there was a sense of primitive design to the landscape.

Graham Austin OAM was caught up in the youthful exuberance of taking off from a small lake, experiencing the giddy excitement of a first time adventure in the air, absorbed in wonderment and then thrilled with the pilot’s skill in landing the craft back onto the small lake.

On one of his flights we witnessed a misjudgement where the pilot overshot the lake whilst landing and slid from the water up onto the sand.

Unsurpassed excitement for Graham as a child but also with a sense of relief it didn’t happen on his flight.

In later years, driving around Oberon in the Blue Mountains and looking down into the valley, his childhood flight experience was rekindled.

Graham Austin OAM started painting elevated views and discovered working from photographs was generally quite inhibiting.

The camera doesn’t capture the soul of the landscape and it ignores that emanating spirit whereas, memory and imagination does.

That same spirit emerges from his work when he paints according to the logic of the landscape and in particular, his emotional feel of the landscape’s creation.

Graham feels he has to understand how the ground surface is washed and blown by nature, creating the earth’s wrinkles and suggesting its subjective, emotional response.

In Graham Austin OAM's case, by incorporating a gallimaufry of spots with a sense of organised chaos.

Oddly enough, when spots are not placed in the right places the picture looks incredibly wrong, the rules of perspective cannot be ignored.

The main influences on Graham Austin OAM as an artist now are the marvellous effects of aerial landscape and the sense of spirit emanating from the landscape patterns, that conjointly, emanates from the spirit.

Graham Austin OAM paint in spots, in a style akin to the pointillists but he is more interested in creating a spotted abstraction on close inspection, that fuses into reality when viewed from a distance.

The main themes and subjects of his artworks are mostly the abstracted creation of landscape where water and wind carve the design, sculpting the moving surface.

He likes the sense of rocks and trees becoming spots, sometimes standing alone and sometimes gathering in groups just like people, intermingling in life and becoming a tide of movement, a current of aerially viewed patterns juxtaposed in perspective.

You can contact the artist about their art tips or art techniques directly via their website at grahamaustin.com.au


The Colour In Your Life fine art TV series is an art show that takes you into the everyday studios of artists from around the world. While in the studio they share their individual art techniques and art tips with the viewer in a relaxed atmosphere, with a delightfully Australian host and fellow artist, Graeme Stevenson. The artist shares with the viewer their stories of life, painting, drawing, sculpting, art workshops and any art lessons they may provide. The art TV series is currently filmed in Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

Graeme Stevenson, a world renowned artist himself, rides his Harley Davidson to the studios of artists all over the world and allows the viewers a chance to see some of the greatest artists of the world in action.

A wonderfully engaging art show. If you love creativity and the joy of looking at the world through art, then Colour In Your Life is the place to be.

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