Art News Update

Here is my art news update. With a new season it is time to share a new update about my art practice. There has been a lot going on in both my personal life with starting a new full-time teaching job at a private Montessori school and with upcoming opportunities involving my art. Read about some recent art updates below!

YouTube

You can see my most recent acrylic painting tutorials - by checking out my YouTube channel and clicking most recent. Be sure to subscribe and hit the bell to receive notifications of new painting tutorials!

Exhibition

From October 2-January 17, 2021 you can view my art at the Orillia Museum of Art and History in Orillia, ON at the “Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition: Tradition Transformed.”

I have a piece called Establishing Roots which is an altered hand-cut atlas displayed on a pedestal with white gloves. The exhibition is a juried exhibition showcasing the work of a variety of artists in all mediums whose work focuses on the theme of the landscape in some way.

Jackie Partridge -artwork, hand cut atlas

November Art Sale

For all of November I have a sale to save 20% off the art in my shop. You will be able to use the code November20 in the checkout when you make a purchase. There will be a special bonus for people on my email list in the last week of October! I offer free standard shipping to Canada and the U.S. This sale only happens once a year! Join my list here: www.jackiepartridge.com/shop

Publication Features

Patched (select photographs) will appear in Tiny Spoon Ecology (Upcoming)

My work Remnants (photographs) is now available in Tiny Spoon Memory (Spring Issue No. 4) p. 57-59.

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3 Steps to Painting Better Landscapes!

3 steps to painting better landscapes - you are on your way to becoming a better landscape painter! Remember you are on a journey and painting is a skill that takes time to develop! Painting landscapes can be difficult but I will show you my 3 steps for painting better landscapes and loads of acrylic painting tips! You’ve started acrylic painting. You’ve watched countless YouTube painting tutorials of sunsets and palm trees. You have tried painting landscapes but it just doesn’t seem to look good as the landscape paintings you have seen on Pinterest or instagram. Ready to learn how to improve your landscape painting? Let’s go!

Here is the help you have been waiting for!

It’s not as hard as it seems. You are only 3 steps away from painting better landscapes! These are also the 3 common mistakes I see beginner painters making in their landscape paintings.

3 Steps for Painting a Better Landscape

Step 1: Colour Mixing 

A grassy field is not the same colour of green. A cloud is not all white. Water is not the same shade of blue. This is the number one mistake I see beginner painters making is that they use the colours of paint straight from the tube. You need to mix your colours and you need to add a variety of colours to make your landscapes look more professional. I wrote a blog post all about colour mixing - you can read that here!

To see what I’m talking about -check out my video on colour mixing and mixing greens. In this video I show you how to mix a variety of greens and talk about where you should place certain greens to create a sense of perspective in your next landscape painting. 

Check out my FREE resource on mixing green and grey here!

Check out the Mixing Greens Video Here! 

Step 2: Try Again

Another mistake I see beginner painters making is that they finish a painting -usually based off a YouTube tutorial and then move on to the next. But you can learn a lot through spending time on your painting and slowing down. 

It’s not a race and there is no need to rush. You will never complete every painting YouTube tutorial out there! 

Take time and look at your painting. Wait til after the painting dries and ask yourself what does it need more of? What does it need less off? And make those changes. 

Sometimes I think it’s easy to forget that you can fix what you don’t like and try again. Acrylic painting is very forgiving; you can easily cover something up with more paint if you don’t like it.

This sounds obvious but the more you practice painting (especially painting the same thing) the easier it will be! 

Step 3: Experiment and Test 

This is the fun step. I’m sure you fell in love with acrylic painting because it’s fun and it allows you to play and be creative. It’s important to let loose. Keep learning new techniques that you will be able to pull from and use in future paintings you do. Again, you can watch a YouTube tutorial and copy every step exactly but that’s only one way of learning. INSTEAD pause the video and add your own ideas - make changes and play! Don’t see your ugly paintings as mistakes. See them as learning opportunities and go back to step two and TRY AGAIN! 

With any new skill you learn it does take time and practice. I know you probably crave those beautiful paintings you see online and keep wishing that ONE DAY you will be able to paint like that too. 

If you are interested in continuing to learn about acrylic painting and improving your skills with landscape painting you can check out more free resources like my YouTube Channel here! 

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Conceal - Art Installation by Jackie Partridge

Conceal is a project that was inspired my a previous work Trapped this work is from 2017 by artist Jackie Partridge.  In the installation below I use the same hand dyed and hand embroidered dishcloth quilt from Trapped. The dishcloth quilt is made to resemble an aerial view of farmlands. Farming runs in my family as both sets of grandparents and great-grandparents owned farms. I grew up in Wellesley, Ontario, a small town surrounded by farmlands. I watched the land over time develop into subdivision after subdivision. This artwork became symbolic for concealing or covering, protecting and hiding the land. The dishcloths are dyed with inks and acrylic fluids with bright colours of greens, browns, yellows, oranges and pinks to represent the colours and beauty of farm fields. I really wanted to highlight the beauty and vibrancy of the landscape.

I am interested in quilts and fibre art because when I grew up I had 8 grandmothers including great-grandmothers and great-great-grandmothers. So the craft of embroidery and sewing are very important to my family heritage. 

With my art practice I often reuse elements and photograph different artwork outside to change and transform the context of the work itself. I see my art evolving and transforming through time similar to how the landscape is in a constant state of change.

This quilt inspired artwork is draped over rocks at my grandmother’s house in Kinmount, ON. Their property is a special place where I enjoy spending my summer. I find being in nature to be a very inspiring place for my work and me as an artist. Photographed by me in summer 2017.

I see the quilt as a symbol of protection, warmth and comfort. Like most quilts are. 

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