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Charles
Sluga
Thank
you for visiting my web site. I hope you are enjoying it.
Following are a few words that will give you some information on my
background and my direction as an Artist. If you do read this and wish
to know more it is simply a matter of sending me an e-mail and asking
me a question. I am happy to answer almost any question.
Every Sunday of my 13th year I spent with Carmen Puls, an elderly Artist
in the small Victorian town of Great Western (Australia) where I spent
my childhood. On these Sundays Carmen not only taught me how to paint
in Acrylics, but also introduced me to famous Artists and their paintings
through her extensive library of Art books.
While attending these lessons I learnt the skills of observation, composition
and the plein air approach and developed a love of art. On occasion
I would copy a print of a painting by one of the old masters. It was
certainly an incredible experience, when 22 years later I stood in front
of the painting "The boyhood of Rayleigh" by Sir John E Millais
at the Tate Gallery in London - one of the paintings I had copied on
Sundays with Carmen. I only wished that Carmen were there with me.