In this fine art TV show episode Harvey Leach is interviewed with Colour In Your Life about painting, mosaic inlays, guitars, art workshops, art tips and art techniques.

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Fine Art TV Series - Colour In Your Life
Season - 12
Episode - 03
Filmed on Location at - California

Harvey cut his first inlay when he was in high school. Harvey’s first “inlay” was actually a cavity the shape of a heart in a banjo fret board made from an ill-advised cherry. Rather than actually cut something to fit he simply filled the cavity with Plastic Wood… Harvey has come a long way since!

Harvey got his real start with inlays while he was trying to build banjos for a living… everyone knows you can’t build a banjo without encrusting it with a fair amount of shiny secretions from the ocean floor! His first attempts were with the mindset that if he couldn’t play better than everybody else he could at least look cooler. It was a great plan but at his very first contest a guy by the name of Steve Arkin showed up with a banjo he had built which looked remarkably like his… Steve won the contest and Harvey didn’t make the finals. Steve had been at it a bit longer and had played with some guy named Monroe in the early 60’s… his first name was Bill…

Harvey still has that banjo and as he looks at it he sees how far he has come from the good ole days where covering as much space as possible was a priority to now where it’s more about seeing how much detail he can fit into the smallest possible space. Harvey’s style has slowly evolved into one where he likes to see just how realistic he can make things look. He calls it photo-realistic but has been told by artists who smear around the limitless color combinations of pigments that to be “photo-realistic” it has to look just like a photo… la dee dah!

Harvey’s pallet of colors is much more restricted so he guesses that’s never going to happen. He can’t come up with a thousand shades of blue and then blend them to smoothly transition. Heck he’s lucky if he can find a half dozen materials that are different shades of blue! So therein lies the greatest challenge in “photo-realistic” inlay, finding the right materials to match the colors and textures you are trying to create. Since more often than not that material doesn’t really exist Harvey spends a lot of time making his own material by creating mosaics or custom blending things like jewelry grade epoxy or even a kids favorite, Sculpy clay. As you look through Harvey’s website you will find several detailed explanations of how some of these processes take place to create the near “photo-realistic” effects that sets his work apart from most other inlay artist.

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The Colour In Your Life TV series is an art show that takes you into the everyday studios of artists from around the world. While in the studio they share their individual techniques with the viewer in a relaxed atmosphere with a delightfully Australian host and fellow artist Graeme Stevenson. The series is currently filmed in Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

Colour In Your Life is an Australian produced TV art show and website [ Ссылка ]

Graeme Stevenson, a world renowned Artist himself, rides his Harley Davidson to the studios of Artists all over the world and allows the viewers a chance to go into the Art studios of some of the greatest Artists in the world.

A wonderfully engaging show that allows people to see inside the minds and the abilities of some of the most creative people in the world. If you love creativity and the shear joy of looking at the world through Art, then Colour In Your Life is the place to be.

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