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Kirsten Sivyer Fine Art

Locality: Walmsley

Address: 222 Chester Pass Rd 6330 Walmsley, WA, Australia

Website: https://www.kirstensivyer.com

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25.01.2022 Good morning! I just wanted to say thank you to all the students who are enrolling or have enrolled in my short-courses. I had no idea how this new venture would pan out and thanks to you, my expectations have been well and truly exceeded! My desire to help keep the love of oil painting alive is now rolling along happily. Thank you again and keep up the painting! X

25.01.2022 Busy 'Water' painters in the studio today :)

25.01.2022 I had a father and son in the studio last Saturday for a 2 hour acrylics session. I think their paintings are amazing and quite different from each other (Dad was a Bob Ross fan! Can you tell?). I showed the son, who is only 15, how to use a grey scale and he showed excellent tonal observation. Pretty good for a first painting for each of them

24.01.2022 Reminder - my next oil painting class starts this Wednesday! Landscape | 10am -12pm each Wednesday for 5 weeks. It's not to late to enrol Info and enrolments here - https://kirstensivyer.com/art-classes-albany-wa/

22.01.2022 My new series of 2021 Oil Painting Classes have just been scheduled! info and enrolments here - https://kirstensivyer.com/2021-oil-painting-classes/

20.01.2022 Just a reminder - There are only two places left in my final oil painting class for the year. 'Learn to Paint Clouds' is suitable for beginners to intermediate painters and runs for 5 weeks. Info and enrolment forms can be found here - https://kirstensivyer.com/wednesday-morning-art-class-regi/

18.01.2022 The ghost soldier commission is almost complete. A bit tweaking here and there and then time to play with lighting options...

17.01.2022 Semester 2 classes. More info and enrolments via my website here - https://kirstensivyer.com/art-classes-albany-wa/

17.01.2022 Pretty well done with this one. Nice to get away from fire for a change in color palette. My artistic beach holiday! 90x90cm oil on canvas

14.01.2022 If you see me out and about and I look like I've been fighting with a cat.. I've been busy with this

13.01.2022 Look what these two lovely folks made during their 2 hour acrylics class yesterday. A little bit of finishing to do but otherwise DONE!

13.01.2022 Hi folks, I had someone ask me to clarify whether my Monday evening class titled 'Figures' was referring to painting human figures - the answer is - Yes! I admit my arty shorthand may be a bit obscure, so thought it would be a good idea to clarify :) If you would like to learn about painting the human figure, you can find out more and enrol here - Classes start September 16th and run for 4 weeks. https://kirstensivyer.com/monday-evening-art-class-booking/

13.01.2022 My 5 week short course on painting the landscape starts today! Looking forward to seeing what this new class creates :) More classes are coming up in the coming months. Check them out here - https://kirstensivyer.com/art-classes-albany-wa/

12.01.2022 Looking through my painting catalogue for examples of human figures I came across this commission from 2009 of the Dryandra Lions Village. Here's a detail.

12.01.2022 Some lovely feedback from a student today after finishing up our 'Painting the Human Face' 5 week course. It was only on the last day that he admitted to me that he was in fact colour-blind! Thankfully we had been considering tone and tonal relationships quite carefully during the course which in many ways is more important than colour. The black and white version below is a good way to determine the success of a paintings tonal qualities. I think his painting shows very good observation and decision making - 'Morning Kirsten, I would like to thank you for a very enjoyable and informative course. Now it is up to me make use of that information, hopefully without getting the colours wrong.' Lol.

10.01.2022 Students are learning to paint clouds lately and practising their colour mixing to create all those beautiful, subtle greys. I always encourage students to create their own neutral greys from combinations of reds/oranges mixed with blues. I love how interesting these colours become compared to using an out of the tube black or grey with white.

08.01.2022 New commission project underway. Working on the head today. Please excuse my plinth.

08.01.2022 Painting in progress - I've been chipping away at this portrait of Harry for well over 6 months now. It is ALMOST done...probably just in time to start another painting of the boy for what will no doubt become a wall of Harry's :)

08.01.2022 It has been so good seeing students work coming along as they developed their first portrait in oils. Today was session 5, the last of this series of classes. They have made such excellent progress! Many of the works are getting very close to being complete. Look at this wonderful portrait by my youngest student. <3

08.01.2022 A new cloud painting underway. A detail study of a painting to reacquaint myself with cloud form. Breaking out the lilac!

07.01.2022 Good news today! It looks like in 2021 I am going to be a Brandenburg Trust Artist in Residence (in Albany, not Brandenburg) running an art program for aged care residents. Just need to wait for the COVID storm to calm and then hopefully some dates and more details!

06.01.2022 Check out some of these student paintings from the Landscape class! Many students were new to oil painting and I think they have done so well. :) Depth, atmosphere and so much more

04.01.2022 Hello me arties! ;) Oil painting classes have been well attended and are booking out quite quickly! There are just a couple of spots left in 'Clouds' which will take us through until the end of the year. 'Clouds' runs for 5 weeks each Wednesday 10-12pm from October 21 - November 18. Click below for info and enrollments. Course cost is $200 with optional materials fee. Have a great end to your week! x K https://kirstensivyer.com/wednesday-morning-art-class-regi/

02.01.2022 The client loves it! Yay!!