Frances gave an interesting day today and was kind enough to explain her session.

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​I have collected hagstones for year and thought it would be fun to use them as a theme today.

The idea was to first of all make a detailed study in pencil of your stone and then move on to being more adventurous using a variety of media. Charcoal, ink, watercolour, wax resist, acrylic, monoprint.
As we used these media we could be less reliant on being totally accurate in our representation and consider textures and shapes.
The final idea was to produce a design using some of these images and possibly move into a more abstract composition.

Barry's, Ians and Laurens hagstones

Penny's lively stones with nice shading

The first two are Sally L's and the next three Sally P's which both have wonderful use of colour and texture

Josie's bright bold creations and Jackie's dainty detailed work with descriptions

Ian Jones's liner work and one that looks like a women's face with wirey hair

Lesley's realistic stones and ones using acrylic and  effective monoprints 

Harriet has produced a varied selection, one looks like a cows head and another resembles cave drawings.

Avril was pleased with her work today, which seemed clean and fun

Next weeks blogger is Hannah..
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Acrylic paints with limited palette.

As an artist, Tamsin is inspired by Suffolk landscapes and her paintings include both the rich texture of wild flowers and grasses, as well as some very interesting skies. Below are two examples from her webpage, where more of her work can be found at tamsinlittleart.com

Tamsin uses acrylics, she finds that it is a veratile medium which she can add layers and blend to create the effects she desires.
She works with a limited palette using the following colours:
Paynes Grey, Cadium Yellow (medium hue), Dioxazine Purple, Golden Ochre, Titanium White.
She also adds one other colour, for example indigo blue.
First we mixed the colours, see Tamsin's examples below, the first using Paynes Grey and the second using Indigo instead. We all had a go at mixing these colours, Frances went 'off piste' with hers, and produced a lovely abstract image, see below as well

Tamsin did a short demonstate, showing how to produce grasses blowing in the wind. Then we all set about choosing an image from photos - to be used to inspire, not to reproduce. Here are Tamsin's paintings, the first showing how to use acrylic inks to get an impression of vegetation and the second showing grasses at the edge of a field.

We all enjoyed the workshops and here is the result of our work. First examples showing paintings done by Frances, Ian C, Jackie, Judith, Laurens, and Lesley.

Then we have paintings done by Ian J, Maggie-Anne, Penny, Sally P, Jenny and Richard

Here are pictures from Josie, and a second one from Lesley done at the end, and then mine

Next week's blogger is Avril

The first of today’s portraits are from Sandra

​and then three portraits from Ian Jones.

​Three from Frances.

​A gallery of portraits from Penny!

​and from Avril

​The still life table scenario

​First a view from one side of the display from Jackie, sorry Jackie this photo doesn’t do your picture justice, and Josie

​Sally P and Joanna were on the opposite side of the table

Jenny, Frances and I had a view from one end.

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And Lesley and Diana were at the other end of the table, Lesley’s pastel painting on a colourful background gives a very festive feel, and Diana brought a picture of a colourful still life and added some objects from the table in her own inimitable style.

Ian C and Maggie Ann were both focusing on birds.

Ian’s soulful thrush, and Maggie Ann’s chicken which has I notice featured in several other
​pictures,- I blame the photographer .

and finally…

​A New Year’s Resolution…check your gallery page, is there anything you would like to add or remove? Please send extras to Hannah.
if you haven’t yet got a gallery page please send some ( half a dozen) representative photos of your work along with a short ‘blurb’ to Hannah for inclusion.

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• ​slight change to the workshop day on January 22 nd.
  Frances will be using ‘Hag Stones’ as a starting point for exploring shape and texture in mixed media. Bring Acrylics, pastels, pens, inks etc -Frances will provide the stones!
  
• DETAILS OF WHAT THIS ENTAILS AND WHAT TO BRING NOW ON STOP PRESS
  
• a programme change. Maggie Ann Jan 29th    Sandra March 6th
• BREAKING NEWS - the next Chairman’s Project is ‘Colourful’ 
  

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• Next week’s blogger is Harriet
  

Sally

We had our Christmas party today and about 24 members were welcomed with mulled wine and a mince pie - although coffee was on offer too. After a lot of chatting and food arranging, the committee had planned some games. There were 4 tables and it became quite competitive. The first game was Guess The Words with vowels missing and some were harder than others, they were all art related. Here are some examples: CRYLC; JNVNYCK; CRVGG;DVDHCKNY; HNRMTSS
You can find the answers at the bottom of the page.

Then Hannah set up a quiz using her laptop and the screen, showing small sections of paintings and we had to guess either the name of the artist and/or the name of the picture. See above, answers again at the bottom of the page.

Our final game was Pictionary where one team member had to draw something and the others had to guess what it was, all food related, the winner of each round was the first table to get it correct. 

Then after a quick break and before we all enjoyed the buffet, it was time to show Chairman's project, subject: Joyful. We saw Maggie-Anne's first - a picture of her lovely dogs; followed by Sally P's interesting collage, showing all the things in her life that she feels joyful about:

Next we have Lesley's picture of her most recent trip away, she went to Sandringham and enjoyed both the weather and the scenery. This is followed, in great contrast, with Richard's Picasso styled painting, plus he sang a song to go with it. And then there is Sue's lovely drawing showing plants from different seasons. Penny  has done a fine image of Koala Bears, plus a sweet portrain of a child. Angela acknowleged that she didn't really do Joyful as her paintings are quite dark, but she does find her grandchild falling asleep very joyful.

Ian C plans to do a large painting of his daughters, but he finds it is hard to get them all together at once, so he is doing a series of studies first.  Owls are Sandra's selection of Joyful and here is her image showing a barn owl in flight. Sally T decided to study Willam Blake's Songs of Innocent and use his drawing as inspiraction. Judith chose her lovely dog as an example of joyful - her dog running on the beach, she is also doing a study, in this case a drawing, which she will work into a painting.

Hannah also selected her granddaughters as being joyful, she was inspired by her trip to Winterton-on-Sea where there is a sandy beach and seals at one end, but she found another picture to inspire her, of the grandchild on the swing. Her painting is in progress, and is rather wet, being done with oils so she took a picture of it. 
Following Hannah is Dianne's pictures, one of calligrahy which she enjoyed teaching and the other is a chairman's project from many years ago. She also says she enjoys sitting in the sunshine and, but this is contentment, rather than joyful.

More examples of grandchildren being joyful, first Ian J's grandchild fishing and then Josie's grandchild on a trampoline. Bee has done a lovely choir of cats singing.  Avril's joyfulness is her memories of a course she did: Access to Art, at Malvern College, which she said was fantastic. She showed her sketch book / ideas book that she did there, and here is the finally image plus an object she made. Following on from that is Sally L's lovely picture, she says: my eldest son and his partner Sarah got married secretly a few days before flying out to live in Dubai last year. They didn’t tell me until the day before, so naturally I wasn’t there, but I bought myself a small bottle of champagne and in order not to consume it too quickly I sketched it after each mouthful. I was quite overcome with joy! 
And then there is mine, Snowdrops;  The promise of Spring.

ANSWERS 1) IF YOU HAVENT ALREADY GUESSED ACRYLC; JAN VAN EYCK; CARAVAGGIO; DAVID HOCKNEY; HENRI MATISSE
2) Van Gogh, Starry Night; David Hockney, A Bigger Splash; Picaso, Weeping Woman.

Happy Christmas to everyone
See you next year on the 8th January 2026

Eighteen of us at the Bowls Club this morning, a good turnout, and although it was dull and drizzly outside, indoors it was all things festive, all manner of Christmas decorations baubles Santas, festive greenery and more gold pine cones that you could shake a stick at.
Hannah was our model clad in a glorious cardigan from her own personal winter collection, colourful and cosy.

​First the portraits
​we all agreed that  Ian J has taken years off Hannah at a stroke with this portrait on Marker pen paper using alcohol inks. Penny produced two good likenesses in pencil.
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Jackie was using a new sketch book, and was a bit cross to discover that her pencil underdrawing had bled into the watercolour used on top.Two portraits from Sally T, the second she explained became rather dominated by Hannah’s cheek.

​on the still life table, Harriet has included an eclectic selection of the Yuletide objects on display, plenty to challenge us here with the baubles and the tinsel.
​ Maggie Ann, concentrated on the billiard balls in pastel, a difficult technical challenge.

Two strong colourful pastel compositions first from Lesley really effective on a red background, and then from Sally P, again some difficult subjects, the tinsel and baubles.

​and Josie’s baubles look good enough to eat! in contrast Penny’s delicate vignettes would make perfect Christmas cards.

Sue completed two beautifully delicate drawings of the winter foliage on the table.

and three from Avril,a pencil sketch of part of the table, baubles in colour, and one of Avril’s favourite subjects I think, the  quirkier elements.

And finally a sketch from Angela, I think it should be entitled ‘the work of a model’

Working independently this week
Diana finishing a painting featuring some luscious beetroot that she began last week, and Ian C working in pastel, Southwold beach huts, and a bird (thrush?) caught momentarily distracted by…

Richard joined us again, working on his ‘two hour Picasso’ a lovely balanced composition of a cup, a jug and a spoon, I think quite well set off by the geometry of the brick wall.

Carolyn sent in this coloured pencil drawing of two tomatoes, almost echoing the baubles on our table this week 

and Frances has been working on her Lino prints, she has cut all the plates, and now has to ink them up for the reveal!

finally this touching sketch from Angela in preparation for her Chairman’s project ​JOYFUL to be presented at the Christmas party next week.

and finally​

• our Christmas party next week, bring a plate and your ‘Joyful ‘ picture.
• information including equipment needed for the Acrylics workshop is available on the ‘Stop Press section of this website.
• if you would like to send a Christmas message to fellow members  Hannah has created a Christmas Greetings page as part of the Messages from Members menu. Please send your messages to Hannah.
• Next week’s queen of the blog is Harriet, please send contributions to her.

​Sally

Elaine took us back to summer with a still life laid out for tea in the garden, with fairy cakes, and even bubbly!  Come to think of it, the weather today was considerably warmer than of late, but I think we would still have had to shelter in a conservatory...
It was a busy morning today, with 21 members in attendance, and we had to stop early because of a function in the Bowls Club.  The air of concentration could almost be heard it was so dense.  Elaine also modelled for the portraitists.  And there were a number of members working on their own projects today.

So here are the first batch of works - the first from Sally P, and the second shows two of her drawings using not-looking at the paper, not lifting the pen, techniques. Next Harriet gives us the other side of the still life, and finally Laurens tackled both portrait and still life.

Next Lesley's hydrangeas the first she described as 'experimental', the second with a wonderfully three dimensional feel, new member Sue's studies of the still life, Sally T's watercolour, and my iPad drawing - very unfinished! Using layers to rough out, and then add shading and definition.

Here are three vivid studies of the same component of the still life, respectively,Bea, Barry and Jennie

More members doing their own thing - Maggie-Anne, characterful cat and Josie's colourful hare.  The third is from Richard, great to see him after a long time, it will be interesting to see how this turns out!

Diana says, 'I started with a photo of beetroot and then combined old paintings in my head .'

Here are the portraits from this morning. First, Penny, then Ian J, and two from John...

And now, two from Jill and three from Avril.

Coming up - the Christmas party on 11th December.  If you haven't already added your name to the list of those who are coming, make sure you do so next week, and let us know what food you will be bringing, and whether you are bringing a guest.  The party is always good fun, and thanks to the members, the food is good.  There will be mince pies and mulled wine provided.
We will also be presenting our Chairman's Project work (reminder: the subject is 'Joyful'). 
For the benefit of new members, here are a few things you should know:
Have a look at some of the blog entries for the last week of April in previous years to see some of the work that has been shown in the past.
You don't have to have a finished work.  You can show us your sketches or an unfinished piece, and give us an idea of your intentions.
You can do something 3D if you like.
You can interpret the subject as broadly as you like.
You can bring something you have already made that fits the subject, that fills you with joy. And that thought might fill you with joy!
Stop Press has some details of changes to the Programme relating to the Acrylic Workshop planned for 15th January 2026.  Please have a look.
Sally L will be blogging next week. Send contributions to her.

Here at the Eye Bowls Club on a cold frosty morning, members of the Eye Art Guild met up and had a session of drawing and painting. John supplied the lovely still life including hydrangeas in two vases, some fatsia leaves, and some seed heads  plus two very attractive cushions that he had embroided.

John also posed and quite a few choose to draw him and he made them work hard with four different poses, they are all successful drawings although some said he was quite hard to draw especially the last one where there was quite a lot of foreshortening.

First we have Avril's colourful  drawings, I sneaked in an extra one, as she just started:

Then we have Angela's portrait, Jackie's four drawings and Jo's drawing of John:

Followed by four portraits from Penny and four from Sally P:

Then we have some images of the still life. First we have Angela's hydrangeas, charcoal and pastels; a lovely watercolour by Bee; Frances's two pictures of vases and hydrangeas; Jenny's flowers and part of the cushion; Jo's leaf, watercolour;  and Sandra's  loose drawing using pastels and Sue's drawing of leaves. Finally mine:

Ian and Gill did their own thing. First Ian, a country side scene done in pastels and inspired by National Trust images. Second is Gill's painting (unfinished) of a scene in Sicily where she has just been on holiday and the image showing her inspiration.

Next week's blogger is Hannah

A happy buzz today as members settled down to a great still life that Josie produced

The first two are from  Ian J who thought the Lilies were very colourful, followed by Jenny's lovely watercolour. First in second row is Sandra's fun piece, she used pastel and then rubbed it out and then intense blocks and rubbed that out for the background and continued on this way which produced a nice texture. Lesley also created texture copying a piece of wood from Hunstanton and the lilies stand out on the plain background. 

Harriet used ink, pastel and charcoal which made expressive still lifes. Joanna painted the lillies 
and the lovely pencil sketch of the hare as did Maggie-Anne.

Sally L made a fun cartoonish, her words not mine, dish that was challenging, and Sally P  tackled a tricky scene.

Josie gave us a run for our money with interesting poses

Sally P made three pencil sketches of Josie

Elizabeth had her own distinctive method of drawing Josie

The first two sketches are Sandra's which shows great shading and Jackie worked hard to get the correct proportions. 

Penny  concentrated hard to achieve these super charcoal drawings

Jolles was also busy sketching in his own individual style

I, Avril also had a job to keep up with Josies many poses.

Dianna sent these via email 

​Hannah sent this : Drawn with Procreate on my iPad.

Thanks to Sally Procner for a varied still life table ranging from Autumn foliage and berries to roses(grrr) , a tea service and iced cakes. Not forgetting her modelling a variety of challenging poses, and putting us to shame by looking incredibly fit in her active-wear exercise outfit.

​A thoroughly well thought through session enjoyed by all. 

​First the portraits, two from Frances, and two more from Penny

Three from Sally T quick sketches, and the two longer poses, and similarly from Laurens.

Two from Avril, and three from Ian, the last using a new piece of kit,  ‘Creatacolour’ a thickish waxy lead in a propelling pencil type holder, almost luminous against that coloured ground.( from the Art Trading Company in Bungay)

And finally two from Elizabeth with her distinctive light touch and favourite sepia style.

and from the still life table, the ‘coffee time’ , and colourful oak leaves from Frances, and Jackie’s ‘anyone for Rosehip tea?’ 

Harriet drew the ‘coffee time’ composition, complete with fancy cakes, and the rose (grrr) which was extremely tricky.

​Avril drew the tea-time scenario at the other end of the table, and from Maggie Ann a pastel of some jewel like rose hips.

from Lesley some vibrant pastels of the ‘firework dahlias’ and a composition of autumn colours, really effective against the coloured ground.
​and Jenny painted the vase of roses, in their pottery jug, part of the ‘coffee time’ composition.

Angela’s cleverly composed corner of the autumn table, in pastels, and, a drawing in pencil of nuts and berries.

​and Diana’s own composition from the still life table.

you may have noticed a certain antipathy in my comments about the red rose. I tried my best, but it still looks like a plate of jelly!! Grrr

​independent work today; Barry continued working on an idea from a recent workshop that he attended, (left) and rendered the titles of each of the art forms in the appropriate style.
​josie ahead of the curve is developing her ‘bauble’ series, alongside two autumn still life pictures.

and finally from Carolyn, the last whisp of summer, a gentle picture of a swan which she has taken from a summer programme picture, I think from Beccles Quay.

​AND FINALLY …

• Avril has circulated a permissions slip for you to fill in regarding sharing essential membership details. Please let her know your preferences. 
• Dec 11th, The Christmas Party - the committee are discussing this year’s format having felt a little disappointed with attendance over the past couple of years. A list is circulating to ascertain potential numbers before the committee makes further plans, please let us know your plans for attendance as soon as possible.

Sally

What an array of autumn Harriet brought us! Clusters of homegrown apples, some still on their branches, were arranged so everyone had a good view, along with baskets, greenery and flowers. Thanks too to Dave who came to model, along with a very dapper hat!  There were quite a lot of good likenesses achieved by the portraitists, some colourful still lifes, and a couple of members did their own thing.

Starting with two who did a bit of both the subjects on offer, here is the work Frances produced today; Pencil sketch, Aquarelle pencil sketch, Wax crayon and graphite, and Charcoal and wax crayon

And here are Avril's sketches.  There was general agreement on how well the wash worked under the portrait here.

Portraits artists next: Sally T, Barry and Laurens, with two each...

These are Jackie's sketches of Dave... along with Penny's and Judith's

On to the still life works...
These are Ian J and Josie's (her first are from her 'bubble' (or maybe, given the season 'bauble' works)

A few notices before I go:
If you are interested in taking part in the Craft Fair at Debenham Leisure Centre on 29th November, you need to sign up with Ian J by next week (6th November). 
There will be a tick sheet about the Christmas Party available at the Bowls Club from next week until 27th November; please indicate on the sheet whether or not you are coming.
Finally, the Programme Committee (Sally P and Lesley) would be very grateful for suggestions for new venues for next summer.  Parking and loos are essentials, and private gardens would be very nice.  If you have any ideas, please let them know.
Next week's blogger will be Sally L, so let her have your contributions.

Fifteen of us battled the elements for our session at the bowls club today. A workshop emphasising  strong simple compositions focusing on the use of tone.

(youtube examples from Tony Allain and Alain Picard, two pastel artists who use this ‘blocking in’ technique.)

We used two L-shaped card sections to crop and frame a small area of a larger photograph revealing a smaller simpler composition within it.
Then using just black , white and grey we blocked in simple sketches of these mini compositions moving the frame each time.

After coffee we used this same technique referencing work from John Blockley and Kurt Jackson but with a limited colour palette, and again a very simple composition, using the pastel on it’s side, working from dark to light, and lighter to heavier strokes. Using photographs.

Finally we used the same technique in colour to work from actual objects, looking for the darkest darks and the lightest lights and then the mid tones.

Your animated demonstrator!
​Unfortunately I couldn’t crop out the bowls club roll of honour which looks as if it’s attached to the top of my easel.


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Phase 1 working on simple compositions from a cropped image

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Images from the morning session from L-R Barry, Penny, Sally .T 
​and Jane.

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And more from Judith, Josie, Sandra and Ian.


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Final images from Sally. T, work in progress. From Avril all three phases of the workshop, and from Jackie her picture of the rocks in the photograph ( right)

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From Frances, two quinces, colour, pen and ink. Tonal drawings of the Tyne Bridge, a full colour version, a Spanish landscape, and still life (life’s?)

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From Sally P. Tonal sketches, a full-fat colour version of a cropped picture section,
and finally a tomato, nearly finished!. Maybe not, she’s eaten it…

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​and from Lesley, tonal studies, and colour study from her own photographs taken in Anglesey looking towards Snowdonia, and finally her pastel interpretation of a photograph provided.

​and finally , my day’s work! I must have spent the day talking…

Diana has got some juicy new oil sticks, and has sent this image, of work in progress, they do seem to be lovely vibrant colours…which makes me think that perhaps I need some too…

Next week’s blogger is Hannah, please send contributions to her

​A reminder of the next hot topic, the Chairman’s Project - Joyful ​​

Please sign up for Andrew Harrington’s pastel (boats) workshop, even if the list is full, as there is a possibility of running another workshop later in the term if enough interest is shown.

• ​Sally
   

Avril provide the still life this week, which had lots of hairdressing items as well as some lovely flowers. She was also an excellent model. Thanks Avril.

First we have 2 drawings of Avril by Frances, she is not happy with them but she wants Avril to know that it is nothing to do with her modelling. Also Frances's picture of roses. Following this are two drawings expertly done by Hannah on her IPad 

Then we have Ian C and Ian J, very different styles. Ian C is working on studies for a final painting.

Here we have Jackie's lovely images and followed by John's strong portraits

Next we have Josie's interesting Christmas card ideas and Maggie-Anne's gorgous drawing of her dog

And two drawings by Penny, followed by Sally Ps collection of images, the centre drawing done without looking at the paper. Following this is Sally T's nice drawing.

 Then we have Sandra's drawings of Avril, my drawing of flowers, and Diana's collage, plus her water colour painting in stages.

I've done the blog today (Harriet) and I've had a bit of a week this week, including losing my bag and I would like to thank Maggie-Anne for finding it.

Next week Sally is going to do a workshop, please see details in Stop Press. She is also going to do the blog.


Very sad news, Dorothy Swanton has passed away, for details see Messages from Members.

It was great to be back in the Bowls club today, only 15 members arrived today due to holidays etc. but a wonderful day was had by all.

Jackie provided an autumnal themed still life with the clever use of boxes 

Members working on still life and other projects

Maggi-Anne made hers on brown  paper and thought it did not stand out so much, the second one, Barry's, was a watercolour that details the dahlias beautifully. End two are Josie's mixed media which shows her vibrant use of colour. 

Sally P the first one was a beautiful pastel which had a realistic pear. Harriet the middle one was very detailed and showed much attention to detail. Sally L made good use of black and white by using pen and ink and then pencil as separate ones on the same paper. Angela's pencil and ink drawing is nicely balanced. The last one was Diana's that shows a clear brightness.

Jackie awaited her throne and sat very still for us.

There were some fantastic pencil drawings, first two by Penny and last one by Angela, it was commented on that we all tended to make the hands too small. 

First three Avril's who took some time getting into the swing of things and the ones in the last row Ian's who improves constantly.

Frances with her usual flair contributed with these staggering renditions

Jill was doing her own thing today using acrylics 

Lesley sent this : The first a quick watercolour of the roses and stocks from my thank you bouquet given to me at the AGM last week. They lasted well given they travelled with us and still OK a week later. 
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We are glad you enjoyed them Lesley and it was a small token from EAG of what you had done for the group. 

 I’m on Anglesey. Here are two pages from my sketch book of the view  across Menai Straits from our apartment’s living room window. 

Please note there are details on the Stop Press page of the materials needed for Sally L's workshop on 23rd October.

voted in) as the new Chairman.  Jackie was elected Secretary, and Avril has become the new Membership Secretary. 
Lesley gave us her final Chairman's Report, which will be available to read on the Chairman's Messages page shortly. 
There was a review of the Summer Programme just past and the new Winter Programme was discussed.  Members are invited to make suggestions for the 2026 Summer Programme; a form will be available on the noticeboard at meetings. 
Finances are healthy, but it has been identified that using SumUp (the credit card machine) for paying for workshops or weekly fees is not economic, so members will be asked for those to be paid for in cash.  Sumup can be used for annual subscriptions and for payments for pictures and cards at exhibitions.
There was some discussion of exhibitions, both those we held this year and future possibilities, which are under discussion by the Committee and the Exhibitions sub-committee.
Finally, our new Chairman, Maggie-Anne, gave us a Chairman's Project to be delivered at the Christmas Party, 'JOYFUL' to counter the dark and gloomy news from around the world.  For the benefit of new members who have not participated in a Chairman's Project before now, the project does not have to be completed, but is presented with an explanation of the thinking behind the work, and maybe workings leading to it, on the designated date.

Next came Ian C. Following Andrew Harrington's pastels workshop in the last Winter Programme, Ian has started using pastels again following a 20 year break.  He brought in some examples of what he has done this summer, most with his signature angry skies - quite difficult to find those this summer!

Josie had a full sketchbook to go through...

Diana has not been able to participate in person in the summer programme, but very inventively, has used Street Scene and photographs from Country Life to create collages of some of the summer's venues.  Below are Pulham Market, Felixtstowe Ferry and The Handyman in Eye. 

Here is the work shown by Laurens, our newest member.  The first two are copies, some time ago,  of portraits by other artists, and the third is a portrait of Laurens's son.  They are all in oils.

Ian J showed us the sketches he has produced during the summer at lots of different venues; Flixton, The Laburnhams, Thrandeston, Orford, Felixstowe, Bungay, to name a few.  Finally, his granson, with a huge carp that must have been quite something to land!

Next week the winter programme starts.  Jackie will be in charge of the Still life and model.  Don't forget to check the 'Stop Press' before setting out, just in case...
Blogger to be confirmed - check Stop Press for that as well.

The summer's season of plein air sessions drew to a close today with a visit to Maggie-Anne's tranquil garden in Eye.  The weather was glorious, with brilliant sunshine.  The committee, seen below hard at work, were kept inside by a meeting for part of the morning.  I did not stay beyond the meeting, but you will find some sketches and paintings below made by other people who did stay to enjoy the surroundings, and indeed you can see some of them out and about in the garden in my photos.  

 Here is Avril's selection, a good few to choose from as usual.  She said, 'We had a great day in Maggie's garden and she provided biscuits , and a selection of cakes, the date one was really moist and scrumptious.'
Picture 1.  This was the first one I did could have been better with a bit of distance shown
Picture 2.  Pastel apples
3 and 4. Thumbnail sketchesof plants as I started to tire
5.  Plants abstracted.

Finally three from Jackie.  The first is across the table at the committee meeting, left to right, me (Hannah), Maggie-Anne and Lesley.  I had the sun full behind me, and so my face was obscured. the second is in the garden, and the third in  Eye.

Next week is the AGM.  We hope you will all come and participate.  Don't forget to bring the piece of work you are most pleased with from this summer.  It doesn't have to be from an EAG session.  If you are unable to come, you could send me a photo of the work, with some words to go with it, for next week.

The Winter programme for this year is now on the website, for you to see, and take note of when you are doing your turn.  I will blog again next week, so send any contributions to me, Hannah.  There is also information on Stop Press about a textile exhibition starting next weekend in Woodbridge, that Avril  is participating in.