Kathy Best

Emerging Australian Visual Artist - I see the world and I paint it.

Diploma in Graphic Design – 2022

Semester Two

Drawing

Abandoned Classroom – mood

Mixed media

Elvis Presley

Ola’s house excursion

Green and brown

Light and dark on coloured ground

Twilight movie

Rockstars

Oil Painting

Semester One

Drawing

Wax resist

Feather pen

Hanging Rock Excursion

Collage

Perspective

Continuous line drawing – 32x32cm on butchers paper

Draw an image

Part of a whole

Grid

Distorted grid

Scribble

Animal – watercolour

NGV excursion – mineral

Sketching at the NGV – A4 Journal

Vegetable – ink intense pencils

Oil Painting

Box Hill Gardens

Hanging Rock

Reflections

Hanging Rock Inspiration I – Oil Painting 51x76cm on stretched canvas

Hanging Rock Inspiration II

Imagined Landscape I

Imagined Landscape II

Semester One submission

Imagined Landscape III

Printmaking

Dry point perspex

Dry point perspex

Zinc Plate hand watercolour

Zinc Plate etching

Aquatint on paper – plate size 14x11cm

Pink Desert painting for inspiration

Dry point perspex

3 plates one sheet separated

3 plates one sheet adjoining

3 plates one sheet multicoloured – perspex drypoint on paper – print size 45x37cm

Gallery

Gallery

Sculpture

Clay and foam

Balsa wood

Chicken wire, plaster and hessian

The Station Master – Plaster, hessian and chicken wire sculpture – 87x15x13cm and maquettes (clay, foam, balsa)

Certificate IV in Visual Arts – 2021

Semester One

Drawing

Negative Space

Texture

Notan

Different Marks

Ink

Rule of Thirds

Frottage

Surrealism with Frottage

Narrative

Self

Biro

Oil Painting

Cool and Warm

Complementary

Magazine Model

Self Portrait

Narrative

Multipanel piece

Bathroom

Kitchen

Lounge

Inform Own Arts Practice

Drawing of Chair

Closeup snippets

3 watercolour sheets

Sculpture

Plaster Head

Plasticine

Latex

Clay

Plaster

Plaster sculpture

Planar Sculpture

Figurative Sculpture

Printmaking

Linocuts – Bryce Canyon

Bryce Canyon

Lino cut

Lino Prints

4 prints on one sheet

Chine Colle

Concertina Book

Linocuts – Interiors

Two inks

Chine Colle

4 prints on one page

Concertina Book

Woodblock

Semester Two

Drawing

Figure and nature

Figure and nature

Figure and nature

Nature

Landscape

Figure in Landscape

Ancient Drawing

Ancient Drawing

Life Drawing

Life Drawing

Life Drawing

Building with Nature

Building

Statue

Statue

Figure with Landscape

Statues with Metropolis

Cartoon with background

Cartoon

Cartoon with Narrative

Final four finished works consisting of 3 elements

Painting

Chiaroscurro

Sfumato

Fauves

Homage to Amy Silman

Homage to Per Kirkeby

Homage to Grace Cossington Smith

Portrait on green ground

Shadows on red ground

Landscape on yellow ground

Glazing

Abstract

Abstract Detail

Tertiary colours

Tertiary colours

Squiggy

Sculpture

Papier Mache

Nature

Food Sculpture

Food Sculpture

Paper Playground

Paper Playground

Site Specific

Site Specific

Site Specific Sculpture

Site Specific Sculpture

Polymer Clay

Polymer Clay

Printmaking

Stencil and Tracing Paper

Stencil and Tracing Paper

Stencil and Tracing Paper

Stencil and Tracing Paper

Drawing and Stencil

Drawing and Stencil

Foam Plate

Foam Plate

Foam Plate

Foam Plate

Foam Plate

Foam Plate

Zinc Plate Etching

Zinc Plate Etching

Dry Point Plastic

Theory

Certificate III in Visual Arts – 2019

Semester One

Sculpture

Clay

Wire sculptures

Rectilinear Sculpture

Relief Sculpture

Found Objects

Kinetic Sculpture

Printmaking

Monoprinting

Pink and Blue Shopping Centre

San Francisco Shopping Centre

Segovia

Canyon Lands

Stencil Printing

Fruit with background

Black and Yellow

Four Fruit

Complimentary Fruit

Linocut Printing

In the Kitchen

Three Pears

Bunch of Grapes

Drawing

Drawing upside down

Pencil

Proportions

Popcorn

Popcorn

Cubism

Cubism

Graphite

Graphite

Graphite

Charcoal Negative space

Carcoal Negative space

Charcoal

Ink

Ink

Ink

Movie scenes

Movie scenes

Biro

Models

Conte

Cropped – Conte

Cropped – Conte

Found Objects Sculpture – Conte

Cropped – Conte

Cropped – Conte

Cropped – Conte

Cropped – Conte

Cropped – Conte

Cropped – Conte

Conte on paper bag

Conte on paper bag

Conte on paper bag

Conte on paper bag

Capturing to Paint Diptych

Tonal Collage

Oil Painting

Neutral Colours

Monochrome

Warm and Cool

Complimentary

Landscape

Capitol Reef National Park

Contemporary Capital Reef

Segovia

Segovia with thinner trunks

Portrait

Under painting

Final painting

Diptych – based on Found Objects Sculpture

Free Choice

Gallery Visits

Fake Mural Project

Semester Two

Sculpture

Amorphic Sculpture

Chicken wire and newspaper

Hessian and plaster

Shellac

Pretzel

Arrived home

Recycled Plastic Bottles

Pregnant Cow

Walking the Dog

Digital Sculpture

Blender Program

Blender Program

Sculptris Program

Sculptris Program

Printmaking

Dry Point Etching

Canada inspiration

plastic plate

plastic plate

Collograph

Halloween Pumpkin

Digital Art – Photoshop

The 3 Pigs – 1st Version

The 3 Pigs – 2nd Version

The 3 Pigs – 3rd Version

Oil Painting

Abstract

Homage

Homage to Ian Fairweather

Homage to Ian Fairweather

Homage to Aida Tomescu

Homage to Aida Tomescu

Shopping Centre

Arts Theory – Elements and Principles of Design