Evelyn Antonysen Art

10/08/2026

Watercolour classes anyone?
Tomorrow's watercolour class. Painting large coastal rocks such as those at Binnalong Bay. This follows on from the workshop on granulation in watercolour so those who attended can put what they learnt into practice. The following week (18 August) we will paint smaller rounded beach stones with or without shells. This activity enables exploration of many textural techniques on the stones. in various colour combinations
$20 session at my Ulverstone studio starting 1.30 pm. If new to the group please phone by midday to check availability of a space

07/08/2026

Loving my new hang sell system. I took one to the market today ready for Sunday and I have one in my home based gallery. So portable and make viewing of stock much easier

05/08/2026

My friends here will be the first to hear this exciting news.
I have just ordered the printing of some A4 calendars of my artwork (Tasmanian landscape and my kookaburra in the gum tree and the platypus). It is landscape format so the Penguin missed out. I used to do a calendar each year then the cost of printing was off putting. For 2025 I tried printing my own A5... the quality was excellent but the time taken!!!!!!! (weeks to months), and too many little errors crept in as I clicked or didn't click layers in photoshop accurately while half asleep! I do like a hard copy of a calendar even though we have the phone. I can quickly scan the whole month for appointments. So this year they will be available as soon as they arrive from the printers ($20 for an A4 one..... opens to A3). I have ordered 10 and I can easily gift those if they don't sell. As it is a new printing company for me, I do not want to order more until I see the quality.
i certainly am out with a calendar early this year! I have been inclined to leave it till too late. If these look OK I will get more done for the Truly Tasmanian Craft Exhibition and Sale in Latrobe (November)

01/08/2026

Just wondering. Is it worth posting at evantart.com?
Very little response to this last post. I am contemplating more videos but if no-one is interested I will just keep painting for me and of course my wonderful in person classes.
I stopped paying for my online shop due to little interest. Trimming un-necessary "obligations" from my life and moving on to other excitement to keep me stimulated.

While watercolour is my primary medium, I am also enjoying acrylics (still water based paints). My focus once again is atmosphere and the Tasmanian landscape. Painting on canvas, some of the paint …

01/08/2026

I have been working on something exciting. watch this space

30/07/2026

Last Tuesday’s class. Reference Gill Dayton’s photo of a Cider Gum at the Central Highlands. Thank you Gill.
Remember in my last post z
I said I made it snow to disguise the accidental white marks. Well some of the students liked the
snow idea.
I find they are now looking more carefully at the way branches attach and the character of the tree. So pleased with the works.

28/07/2026

Painting light with acrylics

While watercolour is my primary medium, I am also enjoying acrylics (still water based paints). My focus once again is atmosphere and the Tasmanian landscape. Painting on canvas, some of the paint is scrubbed on to allow the white of the canvas to reflect light and thus add luminosity to the work in the same way that the white of the watercolour paper reflects light through the transparent paints....

While watercolour is my primary medium, I am also enjoying acrylics (still water based paints). My focus once again is atmosphere and the Tasmanian landscape. Painting on canvas, some of the paint …

28/07/2026

The start of a demo painting today based on a magical photo of a cider gum by photographer Gill Dayton (see her exhibition at Cradle Mt Wilderness gallery and enjoy Tassie Apple Spice on Facebook).
Not a lot like her photo but good for instruction. 1. Analyse photo. Important …cider gum. Take note of the twisty branches. 2 winter mood. 3. Colours in sky … subdued muted Aurora?

Now I got some hairs on mine when watercolour sky was wet. Usually they come off with the rigger brush tip. Not today. Left white spots. Solution…. Make more white dots so they look intentional. How….Add salt and light water mist to get snow effect.
Another teaching point. Create atmosphere then add the tree drawing in lightly first to give more confidence or paint freehand direct. More tips and points too but I am not writing all down.
A good example of creating your own thing according to what accidentally happens on the paper. You don’t want it to be a copy of Gill’s art photo. That was the magical stimulus that inspired me though. As does most of her photography of Tasmania.

25/07/2026

Helen is a watercolour by one of my Tuesday class members. Such a gentle lady and that shows in this watercolour of Port Latta from Crayfish Creek (reference photo image courtesy of Mark). When I finish my painting, I hope the smoke from the chimney looks as good as Helen’s.

23/07/2026

A school holiday activity for a lovely group of 4 (grandma, mum and 2 teenage daughters). Thank you. It was lovely painting and chatting. I selected the silver birch painting tutorial I have done with classes because it teaches a lot of watercolour techniques, brush choice and credit card use. Plus it always results in an interesting work. We had such fun. I do love sharing my love of painting and am delighted when someone contacts me for a small group session in my studio.