Botanical Art with Cherie Medway | Colour In Your Life

Painting botanical, portrait and expressive art, Cherie Medway is a multi media artist based in Melbourne. She likes to explore a range of topics from portraits, landscapes, cityscapes and figurative works with a particular interest in fusing the female form with flowers in an abstract interpretation of our co-existence with nature.

In this fine art TV show episode Artist is interviewed by Sophia Stacey of Colour In Your Life.

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Materials Used in this episode:

SUBSTRATE

Hardboard - (735mm w x 435mm h x 22mm d) from Fitzroy Stretches (Melbourne)

BRUSHES - Da Vinci Synthetics - various sizes 

LEAFING:

Cotton Gloves for handling leaf so it doesn’t tarnish
Monte Marte - Leafing Size (Glue)
Composite Gold Leaf
Composite Silver Leaf
Jo Sonja All Purpose Sealer (1 coat for protection while painting is done)

PAINTING 

Atelier Thick Slow Medium
Atelier Unlocking Formula in Water (spray bottle - used to keep the paint moist on the palette)
Atelier Thin Medium for Gold glazing over skin tones

Atelier Interactive Acrylics

Titanium White
Yellow Ochre
Raw Umber
Burnt Umber
Pthalo Blue
Carbon Black
Pale Gold
Silver
Gold
Prussian Blue
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Orange

Atelier Binder Medium - (As an isolation layer applied over paint before varnishing)

VARNISH - GOLDEN Archival Varnish Gloss (Spray)

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Fine Art TV Series - Colour In Your Life
Season - 23
Episode - 05
Filmed on Location at - Bendigo, Victori

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