20% Off Artist Painting Boards: Custom made boards. Custom made shapes

Artists! We can provide all shapes and sizes. Large and small, round, oval, square, rectangular. Just ask us. Professional, stable, custom made boards. We can prepare you’re painting surface to suit any need. Phone us on 03 9417 0500 to order. We also sell beautiful Italian made Belle Arti Gesso Boards. Large range of sizes…

Marieke Dench – Free Encaustic Painting Demo May 2nd 2015

We were lucky enough to have Melbourne artist, Marieke Dench here at 420 Johnston Street, giving one of her inspiring encaustics demonstrations. Marieke’s work is ideal to show off the incredibly high pigment load in r&f paints, as she uses colour in such a beautiful way. Marieke explained the basic principles of encaustic, how to…

Mateja Simenko – Free Watercolour Demo March 12th 2015

Mateja has a comprehensive understanding of water colour, and her knowledge allows her to work with total spontaneity and lightness. Likewise this demo was filled with information, presented in the most accessible way. I had quite a few “’Äha!!’” moments as Mateja explained exactly why better materials actually do produce better results, as paints, brushes…

Cheralyn Lim Liquitex Spray demonstration

Liquitex sprays are very different from your average can of enamel spray paint. They contain artist’s quality acrylic paint, and the colours are standardised across the Liquitex range. You can use liquitex mediums with them all as well. Because they have very low odour, and contain a high pigment load, you don’t have any of…

Paint Marker Demo with Masato Takasaka : Make lightfast artwork in a really immediate and direct way

February 20th Masato Takasaka Paint Marker Demonstration  Masato is one of Melbourne’s most productive artists, and he seemed to really inspire people to have a go in this demo, without second guessing the result or being tentative. He’s not scared of putting his work out there, and this generous spirit helped to create a fantastic open…

Workshops & Demonstrations | Chapman & Bailey

Book an Encaustic Painting Workshop this October/November

  this october / november encaustic workshops for beginners and the more experienced Fantastic beginners weekend encaustic workshop in October with artist Marieke Dench. Great value in-depth foundation course. This course gives you a terrific skill base for our advanced courses coming in November. U.S. encaustic artist and tutor Shawna Moore will be running rare advanced encaustic weekend workshops…

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…

Peter Graham – my ghost

Above: Untitled 2013 Encaustic on board 72 x 52 cm   PETER GRAHAM my ghost    at Tolarno Galleries, 31st August – 5 October 2013 view online here For further information contact mail@tolarnogalleries.com  www.tolarnogalleries.com Level 4, 104 Exhibition Street
Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia
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