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Linda Weil

Linda Weil is a professional artist with over 30 years experience in fine drawing and illustration. Beginning with a career as an artist/illustrator for a variety of top Australian national magazines, she now exhibits her work in a diverse number of galleries and exhibitions throughout Australia.

Her engaging and detailed drawings have won numerous awards; previous Australian Geographic art calendars have featured a selection of Weil's award-winning drawings. She has authored and illustrated How to Draw Lifelike Animals and co-authored The Art of Drawing Animals for the international art publisher, Walter Foster. 

More recently, as Weil explored presenting her work in solo exhibitions, she has branched out in her art practice. Now, the world is a clockwork construct as seen through the eye of Linda Weil’s drawings.

Using the simplest and most common drawing implement, the graphite pencil, her freehand yet exacting and precise drawings explore natural and everyday objects often with a mechanical bent. A rich, expressive and exhaustive medium, Weil uses the humble graphite pencil (with touches of colour here and there) to explore a vast range of effects in her works. Needle sharp contour lines to soft velvety depths of shading allow her to travel the boundaries between realism and fantasy, creating her own special mechanistic reality.


Education

RMIT Diploma of Art in Graphic Arts

LWeil-Studio

I think I was born with a pencil in my hand. In fact, I can never a remember a time when I did not draw, and my earliest memories are of scratching fantastical animal shapes on my bedroom wall. Born in California, money was tight growing up. We were not a wealthy family, but pencil and paper were always available. I knew without a doubt I was going to be an artist, and no amount of negative comments on the suitability of this goal for a girl could deter me.

Things changed radically for me in 1972, when my mother took a teaching position in Australia. High school art classes in Australia were certainly different! You were expected to learn about art, history, and methods. It was somewhat to my chagrin to struggle and not be the ‘top’ in art class anymore. I had to work hard to make the grade and Australia was one of the best things that could have happened to me as an artist.

Once out of high school I had to make a serious decision, I required a job where I could use my drawing to give me a living wage. RMIT offered an excellent Graphic Art course. Remember, this was pre-computer age so being able to draw was a prerequisite. It was a fabulous course, with hours of life drawing, technical drawing, interpretative drawing, illustration, as well as photography and printmaking.

After graduation and a few years working as a paste up artist for various print houses, I eventually landed at Southdown Press/Pacific Publications in North Melbourne in the position of a Graphic Artist/illustrator/Art Director for their stable of national magazines. Here I honed my drawing skills in ink, pencils, watercolour, and digital illustration; drawing anything from flowers and garden plans, to home interiors, architecture, cartoons, and abstract designs. Most of my time was spent on Your Garden magazine, but I also did stints on TV Week, Post, Home Beautiful and New Idea.

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'Aeronaut' Tea stain and graphite pencil by Linda Weil


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'Lead Balloon' Graphite pencil by Linda Weil


While I worked fulltime, I also continued drawing for pleasure. Birdwatching, nature journaling and wildlife art kept me grounded during those heady days on the magazines. After 15 years in magazines, I realised that I was thoroughly bored with the work, and it was time to take my art further and seriously consider exhibiting my drawings. Already a member of the Australasian Wildlife Art Society (WASA), working on Council as WASA Secretary, I began exhibiting with them and had a few small successes.

Encouraged, I started to show my wildlife art more widely. This brought attention and soon I was teaching workshops in Wildlife Drawing throughout Australia. As well, my local art group, the Mentone-Mordialloc Art Society (MMAG) asked me to take their Thursday night drawing class. More recognition followed as I was approached by Walter Foster Publishing to illustrate and write a wildlife animal drawing book for their ‘Drawing Made Easy’ series creating the title ‘Lifelike Animals with Linda Weil’. This was very exciting stuff! Even more so when a couple of years later Derwent Pencils commissioned me to create original drawings for use in their packaging and promotional materials.

Teaching and workshopping around Australia introduced me to many different artists and students. I got to know many of the VAS artists, and Clive Sinclair in particular supported and sponsored me for membership at VAS. When the VAS Members' Room began to offer exhibition space, I did a small show of my drawings. After this show, VAS asked me to start running drawing classes with them and I was delighted to accept.

After some 40 years of experience as a professional artist specialising in all forms of drawing mediums, but particularly graphite, I am best known for my detailed drawings of wildlife, nature studies and found objects. My years working in print taught me the value of telling a complex story with a minimalist palette in line and tone. In the past decade I have returned to my childhood love of imaginative, science fiction and fantastical work. ‘Painting’ with a pencil allows me to explore a vast range of tonal effects from needle sharp contour line to soft, velvety depths of shade. Mechanical gizmos fascinate me, and I enjoy engineering reality and life with the technical. I find it sheer enjoyment to explore the intricacies of detail within a concept, its’ mechanics, surface textures and relationship to the world. Melding my experience as a naturalist artist with a mechanical bent, this new body of work reflects a steam punk vision of the world, and I am having great fun on the journey.

Linda Weil
September 2021

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'Girl', pastel pencil by Linda Weil


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'Harrod's Spoon', Watercolour wash, colour pencil, graphite pencil by Linda Weil


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'Manglerfish' Graphite and colour pencil by Linda Weil


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'The Young Prince' graphite pencil by Linda Weil



Classes by Linda Weil

LongtailedPos

Drawing Cute Critters

Linda Weil
Monday afternoon - 10 week term
29 Jan 2024 – 1 Apr 2024
4:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Australia abounds with wonderful animals that are a joy to draw. This term we will look at pencil and colour pencil drawings of all things cute, small, and furry. 
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AfterTheOpening150

Textures, Tones and Textiles: Drawing Realistic Textures

Linda Weil
Monday afternoon - 10 week term
7 Oct 2024 – 9 Dec 2024
4:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Take your drawings to the next level, expand beyond the line, discover realistic textures as you learn what to leave in and what to leave out in your drawing.
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Morel Magic

Fabulous Fungi & Florals!

Linda Weil
Monday afternoon - 10 week term
3 Feb 2025 – 7 Apr 2025
4:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Drawing with graphite, colour pencil and inks, focus on interpretative fungi and botanical drawings.
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Works by Linda Weil

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Rope Trick #2
Linda Weil
29cm (W) x 29cm (H) x 1cm (D)
Graphite and color pencil
$ 75.00
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Osphranter Rufus
Linda Weil
Graphite & Pencil
$ 1,600.00
Linda Weil #22
Felis Catus
Linda Weil
Graphite & Pencil
$ 1,600.00
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Echeneis
Linda Weil
48cm (W) x 59cm (H) x 2cm (D)
Graphite/CP with Tea stain
$ 1,600.00
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Equis Maris
Linda Weil
48cm (W) x 59cm (H) x 2cm (D)
Graphite/CP with Tea stain
$ 1,600.00
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Lepus
Linda Weil
58cm (W) x 49cm (H) x 2cm (D)
Pencil on tea-stained 300gsm paper
$ 1,600.00
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Peridexion Tree
Linda Weil
49cm (W) x 58cm (H) x 2cm (D)
Graphite/CP with Tea stain
$ 1,600.00
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Bestiary Mechanica: Cervus
Linda Weil
58cm (W) x 49cm (H) x 2cm (D)
Pencil on stained paper
$ 1,600.00
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Brasshopper
Linda Weil
22cm (W) x 27cm (H) x 2cm (D)
Graphite on aluminium
$ 950.00
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Firetails
Linda Weil
11cm (W) x 8cm (H) x 4cm (D)
Mixed
$ 450.00
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Redfin
Linda Weil
12cm (W) x 8cm (H) x 5cm (D)
MIxed
$ 450.00
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Beespoke
Linda Weil
27cm (W) x 21cm (H) x 2cm (D)
Pencil on Aluminium Substrate
$ 950.00
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Time Flies
Linda Weil
25cm (W) x 20cm (H) x 7cm (D)
Mixed media
$ 1,400.00
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The Singing Bone
Linda Weil
43cm (W) x 49cm (H) x 2cm (D)
ur pencil
$ 850.00
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Capsicum Study
Linda Weil
26cm (W) x 21cm (H)
Graphite pencil
$ 150.00
Blue Crab
Blue Crab
Linda Weil
30cm (W) x 19cm (H) x 1cm (D)
Pastel

Not for sale
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Nest
Linda Weil
26cm (W) x 21cm (H) x 1cm (D)
Pastel
$ 150.00
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Red Weil
Linda Weil
26cm (W) x 26cm (H) x 1cm (D)
Pastel
$ 180.00
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California Scrub Oak
Linda Weil
29cm (W) x 29cm (H) x 1cm (D)
Ink
$ 180.00
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Wurm
Linda Weil
26cm (W) x 26cm (H) x 2cm (D)
Graphite pencil
$ 180.00
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Sprocketree
Linda Weil
50cm (W) x 56cm (H) x 3cm (D)
Graphite and Color Pencil
$ 1,400.00
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Paper Wasps
Linda Weil
36cm (W) x 42cm (H) x 3cm (D)
Graphite and Color Pencil
$ 750.00
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Siren
Linda Weil
50cm (W) x 56cm (H) x 3cm (D)
Graphite and Colour Pencil
$ 1,400.00
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The Grandmother Tree, Bryce Canyon
Linda Weil
50cm (W) x 57cm (H) x 2cm (D)
Graphite
$ 1,250.00
Cypress on the Tioga Pass
Linda Weil
57cm (W) x 67cm (H) x 2cm (D)
Graphite and Color Pencil
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$ 1,400.00
Toybox of Drama and Broken Dreams
Linda Weil
36cm (W) x 42cm (H) x 2cm (D)
Graphite and Color Pencil
Award Winner Banner
$ 600.00
MechiMice
Linda Weil
50cm (W) x 56cm (H) x 2cm (D)
Graphite and Color Pencil
$ 1,200.00
MoneyTree
Linda Weil
17cm (W) x 17cm (H) x 14cm (D)
Copper Wire on Quartz Crystal
$ 450.00
Dragonfly Summer
Linda Weil
18cm (W) x 9cm (H) x 14cm (D)
Brass/copper wire on Quartz base

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Dancer Ecarte
Linda Weil
10cm (W) x 17cm (H) x 10cm (D)
Bass/Aluminium wire & wood
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$ 450.00
The Drunk Mermaid
Linda Weil
15cm (W) x 15cm (H) x 12cm (D)
Clay
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Not for sale
Mantas
Linda Weil
56cm (W) x 50cm (H) x 3cm (D)
Graphite on paper
$ 1,400.00
Pod
Linda Weil
56cm (W) x 50cm (H) x 3cm (D)
Graphite on paper
$ 1,400.00
Hakea laurina
Linda Weil
46cm (W) x 41cm (H) x 2cm (D)
Graphite on paper

Not for sale
MEGG1
Linda Weil
10cm (W) x 12cm (H) x 10cm (D)
Polymer Clay

Not for sale
MEGG2
Linda Weil
10cm (W) x 12cm (H) x 10cm (D)
Polymer Clay
$ 350.00
MEGG3
Linda Weil
10cm (W) x 12cm (H) x 10cm (D)
Polymer Clay
$ 350.00
Graphite Funambulist
Linda Weil
54cm (W) x 54cm (H) x 2cm (D)
Graphite Pencil
$ 500.00
Hugo
Linda Weil
10cm (W) x 12cm (H) x 10cm (D)
Polymer Clay

Not for sale
Echidna
Linda Weil
10cm (W) x 8cm (H) x 10cm (D)
Polymer Clay
$ 500.00
In Metal We Trust
Linda Weil
60cm (W) x 53cm (H) x 2cm (D)
Graphite/color pencil on paper
$ 800.00
Iceberg Rose
Linda Weil
29cm (W) x 21cm (H) x 1cm (D)
Graphite Pencil

Not for sale
Springtime
Linda Weil
80cm (W) x 66cm (H) x 3cm (D)
Graphite & coloured pencil on paper

Not for sale
Siren
Linda Weil
50cm (W) x 56cm (H) x 3cm (D)
Graphite/color pencil on paper
$ 1,400.00
Aeronaut 1
Linda Weil
52cm (W) x 53cm (H) x 5cm (D)
Graphite/color pencil on canvas

Not for sale
Moby
Linda Weil
56cm (W) x 50cm (H) x 2cm (D)
Graphite and Colour Pencil
$ 1,400.00
Eyrie
Linda Weil
50cm (W) x 56cm (H) x 3cm (D)
Graphite Pencil
$ 1,200.00
Reef
Linda Weil
56cm (W) x 50cm (H) x 2cm (D)
Graphite and Colour Pencil
$ 1,400.00
Duck Fight
Linda Weil
56cm (W) x 50cm (H) x 30cm (D)
Graphite and Color Pencil

Not for sale
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