S06E13 The Three Amigos
In this episode we head to Melbourne, VIC, Australia, to visit The Three Amigos - Alvaro Castagnet, Joseph Zbukvic & Herman Pekel. Alvaro Castagnet is one of the world’s most highly respected watercolor artists. His paintings are imbued with a mood, a mystery that engage and lure the viewer into the magic. He is an expressive painter. He exhibits a strong, impressive and colorful style with superb interpretation of light effects that capture the soul of places he paints.
Joseph Zbukvic is a leading master of watercolour medium of his time. His impressive achievements and enormous success is due to his ability to transform any subject into visual poetic language. Covering an infinite variety of subjects, his sensitive, lyrical and atmospheric paintings have captured people and galleries from all around the world.
Herman is an artist of energy and enthusiasm. He is able to see a painting in almost any subject matter and is capable of producing award winning work in oil, watercolour or gouache. He produces paintings of strong design and powerful impact - every brushstroke vibrant and visible. The scope of Herman’s work has ranged from dynamic industrial scenery to soft, draped interiors and broad Australian landscapes, which indicates the creatively fearless nature of this unique artist.
Joseph Zbukvic is a leading master of watercolour medium of his time. His impressive achievements and enormous success is due to his ability to transform any subject into visual poetic language. Covering an infinite variety of subjects, his sensitive, lyrical and atmospheric paintings have captured people and galleries from all around the world.
Herman is an artist of energy and enthusiasm. He is able to see a painting in almost any subject matter and is capable of producing award winning work in oil, watercolour or gouache. He produces paintings of strong design and powerful impact - every brushstroke vibrant and visible. The scope of Herman’s work has ranged from dynamic industrial scenery to soft, draped interiors and broad Australian landscapes, which indicates the creatively fearless nature of this unique artist.
Transcript
00:00G'day viewers, my name is Graeme Stevenson and I'd like to
00:04invite you to come on a journey of creativity and learning and adventure through the series
00:08series Colour In Your Life. There's an artist in every family throughout the world
00:12and lots of times there's an artist deep down inside all of us as well
00:16So grab your kids, your brothers, your sisters, your aunties,
00:20your aunties, uncles and mums and dads, and come and see how some of the best artists
00:24in Australia do what they do.
00:28(Music Plays)
01:04Ok guys welcome back to colour in your life,
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01:27Now normally the guys would do this on a two off situation,
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01:51Ahh and its obviously a big piece and its going
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02:40so if it’s just, look at this, look at the beautiful colour,
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02:47the colours you leave on your Palette turn out
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undefined:undefinedbut we can actually go a bit darker there
04:06yes this could be much bluer
04:10So Alvaro you’re just sort of trying to work out
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undefined:undefinedall of the background colours in aren’t you.
04:43Let me tell you this is the easiest step
04:46This is the easiest step
04:46we just put in colour and that’s why we are not fighting
04:48he’s lying, it’s really hard to do this
04:53I’m glad it’s this size anyway.
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05:24The Chinese writing Ahh.
05:25it should be flattened out, that blue is no good
05:30so how often should you be using that spray bottle Herman?
05:33oh generally when it starts to dry and you’re not happy with an
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undefined:undefinedYour off to New Zealand next aren’t you Alvaro
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06:52yes
06:53Beautiful
06:53very dynamic colours
06:56so I noticed in all of the work you guys do is that
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07:33so he’s just going to sort of manoeuvre in there
07:35There we go
07:36Herman and I have done these before; Alvaro is a
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08:04I’m sorry for the production team that we have to work so fast,
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undefined:undefinedjust simply take over. Who did that, who did that? AHH mate.
08:39that’s that’s great, no no look, that’s great that’s great
08:42no too much of it, he always does that, then I have to re do it
08:47this is a fairly iconic scene in Melbourne where about’s is it?
08:49oh well we going too, we decided to pic something fairly generic,
08:53that you know was a subject that everyone,
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undefined:undefineddo you step back and have a look at what you are doing?
09:27AHH you actually, you should be doing that all the time.
09:29yeah I’ll start doing this building, you do that
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undefined:undefinedthere Herman to help you with your work. which I think is pretty cool
10:01yes we’ve moved on with the times
10:03yeah well I used to be computer illiterate until about a
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10:40I just use the ipad, so all the slides are just sitting there
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11:14homogeneity
11:15homogeneity, yes yes because the colour
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12:28verses the right hand side where Joseph is working
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12:59The nest thing we are going to do is the big shadows and
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15:00and of course the next move is detail, so we’re just discussing
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15:32we’ve been working on the different sections a lot so now
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16:06no I don’t, no I don’t
16:09Herman is the best designer of paintings ever,
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18:26mate that is about as good as you can get, this is as good as you get
18:31Joe what do you think of this, if we spray this and get a few runs, chalky stuff
18:37yes do, that do that.
18:43I’d like to see a few runs, and I don’t even mind if they
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19:47exactly, exactly, I can do that for you Herman
19:50he can do that
19:54and that way you can get a lovely strength in there Water colours
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20:24designed by Alvaro, for Alvaro to use by me.
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undefined:undefinedArts and also Daniel smith,
22:01if it wasn’t for those gentlemen and their companies to get
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undefined:undefinedI can guarantee you that this show will get
22:25millions of hits without a doubt,
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