Adam Lee – Acrylics & Oils Demo

Adam Lee – Painting with Acrylics & Oils Our demo this week was presented by Adam Lee, who generously took time out from preparing for his upcoming show at Kaliman Rawlins to talk about the way he works from acrylic to oils in his beautifully moody paintings. Adam showed us really specific ways to use…

Helen Johnson acrylic painting demo

Demonstration with Liquitex, Matisse and ARA acrylic paints and mediums Last Thursday we hosted a demonstration of acrylic painting techniques by Helen Johnson, an artist with an ever rising profile both in Australia and internationally (and an Abbotsford local). Helen was incredibly generous, sharing her own personal methods for using acrylic paint, mixing colours, and using…

Free Art Events @ Chapman & Bailey Alice Springs

C&B Alice Springs will be running free demos and events this October at C&B Free Art Material Demos and Events in Alice this October Alice Springs Art Shop and RAFT Art Space. Presented by artists and experts in their field, the sessions will cover specialist art techniques and product knowledge suitable for both experienced artists…

It’s all about painting this October

  We have some great things happening this month: Belle Arti Art Prize – Call for Entries from October 1 for the 5th Annual Belle Arti Prize. All entrants will receive a free stretched linen canvas. A  $5000 National acquisitive prize. All registered entries will be hung and invited to the Belle Arti Prize exhibition and opening celebration. Get prepared. Come along to…

Chapman & Bailey @ ART & FRAME 2013

C&B AT ART & FRAME 2013 ART & FRAME 2013 was a three day exhibition and trade fair that will bring together the world of ART and FRAMING in one unique event. Located at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, the show ran September 13 – 15. Ideas, materials and technologies involved in the creation,…

Belle Arti Gesso Panels – Picture Perfect from Italy

Chapman and Bailey love Belle Arti Gesso Panels. These Italian made panels  are perfect for a broad variety of techniques. Handmade, and finished with a smooth polished surface, they are great to work on with encaustics paints, acrylics, pencil, oil painting, paintsticks, even watercolours or ink. The fine surface gives a beautiful surface for detail. Made…

R&F paint stick workshop | Chapman & Bailey

R&F’s Oil Sticks also know as Pigment Sticks

Chapman and Bailey R&F’s oil sticks were dubbed “Pigment Sticks.” They were intended to be as close to oil paint as possible; to be super-soft and creamy so that with little effort they could be manipulated like a lush oil paint. An oil painter’s dream come true but it’s not easy getting there. The formulations…

Cedar Artist Stretchers

Western Red Cedar is the definitely the choice timber to make artist stretcher frames with. It is stable, light, resists mold, moisture and insect infestation. Chapman & Bailey produce mitre shouldered mortise and tenon jointed cedar stretchers that use timber wedges to expand the corners and braces connections. They produce cedar stretchers in 4 different…

Artist Stretchers | Chapman & Bailey

Sustainable stretcher frame of mind

Imagine the joy when sighting 480 cm lengths of timber along the docking bench and seeing them dead straight all the way. Laminating three strips of finger joined blocks of Arakaria (Hoop Pine) lengthwise creates the straightest lengths of timber to make stretcher arms true and stable. Each stretcher bar from Chapman and Bailey is…