Annette Ferguson Digital Artist and Illustrator

22/07/2025

If you're in or around Dubbo, please mark this date on your calendar!

Mark your calendar!!!

September 13 & 14 will be a big couple of days for anyone keen to check out art in Dubbo!

The Dubbo Art Fair will be happening at the WPCC, and you will also have to opportunity to visit private studio spaces around Dubbo and meet with plenty more artists with work on display (and a high probability they’ll have a brush in their hand!)

Some artists names you’ll recognise, some you may not have met yet, and some brave art students will even have a few pieces to show off! It’s a pretty big deal to let people see what you’ve been creating, so please do us a favour and share this post with your friends- the more the merrier on our wonderful studio trail!

Proudly supported by the Rotary Club of Dubbo Macquarie!

Most studios will also have tea, coffee & slices available for a donation which will go back to the community to the Sing Out Choir & Macquarie Homestay 🙌🏻

21/07/2025

It's been a hot minute since I braved the front of a classroom and taught anybody anything.

Today Seeing Eye Dogs, Scotty and I went to check out our classroom at Western Plains Cultural Centre and make sure our tech is working.

We can't wait to share '10 things to get started in digital art' with Fresh Arts Inc. members this Saturday, 26 July. The session will be a practical session where students will go on a little adventure through Adobe Fresco and learn about vector versus raster, resolution, working with layers, live brushes and all the fun tools and techniques available in this awesome app.

I had forgotten how much I love lesson planning!!

If you'd like to learn about Adobe Fresco, Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign, please reach out! Face to face and online private sessions available.

Image description: Annette sitting at a small desk with an iPad next to a screen which reflects the iPad screen and a colourful partially finished drawing. Golden Labrador, Scotty sits in front of Annette looking at the camera.

17/07/2025

So happy to have my work in this exhibition! What a great venue and so much talent.

12/07/2025

I've been channelling Andy Warhole today in preparation for Fresh Arts Inc.'s Not Enough N**e exhibition from 16th - 19th July. Flyer for the exhibition is in the photos. Come on down and have a looky!

Image description: a colourful section of a larger piece of art, a poster for Not Enough N**e at the Establishment Bar, Dubbo.

18/05/2025

I'm doing a lil' bit of market research on these 'cafe doodles'. Would you wear these on a t shirt?

Image description: two images hand drawn in black ink. The style of the drawing is rough and inaccurate. One image is of a lady lying on a bed with her legs up the wall reading a book, with the words 'book club' arched over her feet. The other is a girl with long hair with her face near a horse with the text 'horse girl 4 ever'.

05/02/2025

Bee kind, this is the first time I've recorded my screen while drawing! eeek!! I started with a simple bee. He's rather bee-autiful, do you think?

Image description: a bee as seen from above drawn in black ink on a white background. The video shows a screen recording of the bee being drawn, starting with a purple outline which is then deleted at the end.

01/02/2025

Australia has the cutest wildlife.
Brown thornbill, blue fairy wren and bilby, hand drawn in ink.

22/01/2025

Feeling a little 'batty' today with these three fruit bats. I've never really paid much attention to bats, but they are unexpectedly cute!

03/01/2025

03/01/2025

The opening is tomorrow at 2 pm, but you can visit any time the RFDS Visitor Experience is open.

01/01/2025

There is no better way to start the year than finishing two digital paintings, 'Eucalyptus Angels I and II' at the very last minute for the Colours of the Land Downunder exhibition. This exhibition runs from January 4 to January 30 at the Royal Flying Doctor Visitor Experience, 21 Judy Jakins Drive, Dubbo. 20% of sales are donated to the Royal Flying Doctor Service.

If you're local to Dubbo, come along and support Fresh Arts Inc. and our talented local artists.

29/12/2024

I love working outside under the fairy lights. It seems that the mozzies like me being here too.
Image description: dusky sky behind trees, fairy lights, iPad on a table showing a partially finished painting of gumtree flowers alongside the reference image.