20 members made it today on this dismal day, luckily we were all in  a cheery mood, Jane provided a colourful floral display and sat patiently for us. Lesley asked about the new timings and whether we should stay as we are or revert back to the old system and 7 said they did not mind, 2 for the new system and 10 for the old way.
An Open Studios form was there for members to sign if they wanted to take part. Frances said that she would give us information about her Pointillism workshop in January. There was also a form to sign about the Christmas party regarding how many would like to come and what they could provide towards the meal.

Ian said about different viewpoints and that he thinks it is hard with perspective and he thought the oranges were too small, Bea's palm in blue vase was done in watercolour and she said the vase needs working on. Sally P's portrait had a good face but the baggy jumper did not look right so Sally said she would cut off below the shoulders. The still life was done with neo wax crayons which is a learning curve how to mix and a  pen outline.

Judith has been following a magazine  for guidance and has painted this beautiful scene. Elizabeth concentrated on the eyes as the lids hide them, Jane said these were the image of her  Nanna - praise indeed. Lesley did painting not drawing and I thought  she coped well with the angle of the leaves

Maggie Anne's vase was good but she was not so sure about the flowers but I think they are very effective, the next two drawings are from Harriet, she was glad that she got the feet in and had fun doing the jumper.  Barry had trouble doing the nose with the first one he went back and then lost it, he also tried watercolour brush pens, used pink and when he wet it it went bright red like she had a hot sauna.

Sally T's is the first one where she experimented with graphite and pencil and then pen and ink and watercolour, Sal thought the vase looked weird. Penny is very delicate and shows negative shapes.
Jo's mixed media baubles are colourful. the last two are from Gill who thought it was a challenge for perspective but liked the charcoal sticks. 

Hannah cropped her flowers and said she still had a long way to go, the white gel pen complimented the piece which looked Japanese. Jackie's portraits are lovely as usual, she said it is hard to make the arms to lean over.

Sally L had a vase morning and also enjoyed the flow of the leaves. The first one was a tonal study with soluble pencil and the last was achieved by using the brillo on a stick with paynes grey and then wiping it off with tissue paper.

Here are some of my efforts 

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Looking forward to seeing you next week with your 'On Reflection' and jigsaw pieces ready . Sally will be recording the fun in the blog.  If you have said you will take part in the Open Studios exhibition next year, please send a picture to Hannah, for inclusion in the publicity.

I finally made it back to the Bowling Club this morning.  What a treat to be with real people after what seems like, and on reflection actually is, weeks of seclusion.  It was great to see everyone today, and experience the wonderful atmosphere of concentration that descends as the members settle to work. 
Angela brought a clever still life, with varied textures, shapes and colours, and proved a very good model for the portrait painters.  there were about 18 of us in attendance.
There were at least three sheets to sign this morning, involving the Christmas party and Open Studios, more below...

First here are some pieces done by members who brought their own work in, rather than using the still life or the model.  You are always free to come and enjoy the companionship of the morning, while working on a project of your own. 

Josie produced a mixture of her own work and the still life.  An abstract, a very plumptious pumpkin, and the third, she said she wasn't sure what it was going to be!

Here are the still life offerings...

First, Jane, with two very detailed drawings, the still life, and a tree study. (Sorry about the shadow across the tree, Jane, I think that's my camera)

Next, Lesley, with two watercolours.  She had tried not to go over the same ground twice (something that I gather came out of the recent workshop), but had succoumbed anyway.  Very difficult to achieve the right depth of colour without revisiting the subject in this case, I think.  The composition of the group works very well

Frances decided to challenge herself today using a simple pen, having found at home a drawing she had done in the same manner some years ago.  She drew elements of the still life, a cup from among the club's trophies, and Angela.  Again, the reflections are good practice for the project, and she has captured the shapes very well.  She said the challenge is that you cannot erase, so you have to consider what you do very carefully.

Frances' sketch of Angela leads us nicely into the portraits.

First, Avril filled several pages of her sketchbook and also made a larger portrait with more colour added to it.

Elizabeth also sketched a number of portraits. A number of the artists said the standing portrait had been challenging because of the angle of Angela's body.

Here is Ian J's work from this morning.

And here are Sally T's portraits.

Several notices were given out this morning, and the sheets for sign up were many!
1.  The collages have been put into the frames in Thornham Magna village hall, and Mick reports they are looking very good.
2.  There are only two weeks to the Christmas party on 12th December.  If you are coming next week, please sign up to let us know if you will be coming to the party, whether you are bringing a guest, and what food you will contribute to the feast.
3.  Don't forget, if you are doing something for the Chairman's project, 'On Reflection', you will need to bring it with you for presentation at the party.
4.   There are two pieces of the patchwork picture still available for collection next week, if you are interested.

Next week's blogger is Avril.

Anyway, we all missed a lovely seasonal display of bright autumn colours in the still life brought in by Bea, including various fruits, veg and flowers.  As model she did two long poses and kept really still, a miraculous feat.

Thanks to Avril for stepping in as photographer.  By the end of the session Penny had decided she would like to join us, so welcome to her.

Ian’s pencil sketches...
He was happy although they did not show up well for photographs.
He ran out of space on the full length portrait -  Jackie suggested he used bigger paper to loosen up

Three members next, left to right - 1. Jill’s gourd watercolour was very realistic, stunning. 2. Our new member Penny made a loose watercolour which members thought looked Japanese. 3. Barry said he was not satisfied with the proportions of his portraits and that the neo colour was very intense either side of the nose.

Elizabeth found it hard to get the eyes right. She likes the orange background and uses Jarrards blockingford paper and cuts it up to a half or quarter size. We said it was nice to see the violet charcoal pencil.

Avril tried different methods today and said the first one reminded her of Grayson Perry. As usual, she was very productive, and there are some good likenesses here.

Finally a reminder from Lesley. There are now only 3 weeks to finish your interpretation of the Chairman ‘s project ‘On Reflection’ to be shown at the Christmas party. The party will take a similar form to last year’s. If you intend to come, please sign the list next to the register at the Bowls club, and indicate what you will contribute the shared buffet lunch.

Thank you very much to Avril and Lesley for words and pictures this week; I could not have managed without you!

Next week Angela will be providing the still life and model, and Hannah will be the Blogger.

Thirteen of us attended Andrew Pitt’s all day workshop at the Bowls Club today, and by the end of the day we all felt that we had had a full work-out.
Andrew started with a demonstration of a harbour landscape working from a detailed sketch.

The initial sketch.                               Adding the sky half —way.                The finished picture

He used quite a limited palette of Windsor and Newton paints, four versions of each of the three primaries, with some extra additions

Andrew has a wealth of knowledge to draw on, so I have included some of these little nuggets here.

• You need to get three things right, the drawing, to make sure that your subject will fit onto the paper. 
  The tone, don’t leave out the white and the black working in mid-tones makes a dull painting .working from white to darkest dark, and three  shades in between . 
• Strike a balance between abstraction and photo-realism.
• Paint everything once before you go back to make adjustments 
• Restrict yourself to mixing two colours, certainly no more than three.
• ​clouds get warmer and smaller towards the horizon.
  

With our heads full of this wisdom we started work, while we ate our lunch Andrew demonstrated a seasonal portrait

Working…

And here are the final results…

Ian. J.                                                           Ian C.                                            Jackie

​me.                                                              Jill.                                                     Josie

​Judith.                                                     Maggie Ann.                                        Lesley

​Harriet.                                                       Barry.                                               Avril

Avril

Carolyn has sent a lovely seasonal picture of the Beech leaves bringing autumn glory to her garden.

And a final quote from Andrew
​”It’s not what you paint, but how you painted it”

(If you cannot see a full view of any of the pictures,  tap/ click to expand)

that should keep you going until next week …

• A reminder of the Chairman’s project - “On Reflection”
• Next week’s still life and model session will be led by Bea Murrie.
• Next week’s blogger in chief is Hannah.

phew!

Sally

15 members showed up today and as usual had a chat over tea etc and then got down to business. John provided a simple but effective still life and sat very patiently for three poses.

Views of people down to work concentrating hard

Barry said he needed another hour to do justice to the painting and he was not happy with it. He also finished the 100 celebration mixed media from last week 

Ian boxed in his sketch's , close up and felt he had difficulty with the eyes

Jane enjoyed this week and it showed in her sketches

Elizabeth found the session relaxing, Josie liked the brown background and thought it gave life and depth

The first one is Maggie-Anne's bottle which was done with pen, ink and pencil. Second is Richard's sketch and last Josie's which she says is working progress.

Three of my sketches from this morning

Carolyn has 2 offerings - The second one is a drawing of Bob an old English Sheepdog . Then I noted that you were all trying new marks, so got out my Art Pen did an abstract. Hannah likes a bit of colour added so that is what I tried. You said I should try different media and Carolyn did.

Sally L is the blogger next week when we will be having our exciting Watercolour workshop

Thornham Magna Village Hall is celebrating 100 years of serving the local community, and Mick has asked EAG to help the celebrations by making collages with which to decorate the hall.  Sally  P used her week to facilitate the making of the collages.

The theme ‘Celebration’ drew a varied response from the 14 members attending this morning. Sally P had brought lots of paper and ribbon for collage.

Judging by the comments made everyone really enjoyed the challenge of producing a piece of A3 artwork to celebrate the hall’s centenary. Some members even produced two!

For anyone who wasn’t at the Bowls club today,  and for those who were but didn’t finish, do bring your interpretation of Celebration to the session next week, so that Mick Farrell has time to frame them!

The eagle-eyed among you will have spotted the rather glamorous non-artist in the photos above - Angela's dog, Lara, who came for the morning (with members' agreement) to get away from the beet harvest.

First we have Sally P's collages - each quite different to the other.  Sally enjoyed filling in the whirls with colour, spot the gold infill... The 100 is painted gelli print, and the third is wrapping paper painted in a stylised way.

Finally, of those who attended this morning, Avril has produced four collages:  The first one wrapping paper cones spewing out coloured pipecleaners, Secondly, tissue paper was randomly glued onto paper and then cut out Matisse-style hopefully showing celebration, Thirdly, painted background with tissue paper balloons, Fourthly, a masked man enjoying the festivities ...
Thank you to Avril for all her help this week with pictures and words.

Frances has sent images from Brittany - First playing with autumn colours and others sketching around and about.

Finally, here is some information from Lesley.  I will also add it to the Stop Press so you can still find it after this page has gone below the next blogs.
Next year we will be exhibiting as part of Suffolk Open Studios at the Bank Arts Centre in Eye. This will be our summer exhibition.  We hope as many as possible of you will be able to commit. Hanging will take place on Monday 23rd June, for exhibiting Wednesday 25th - Sunday 29th June. The weekend Saturday and Sunday will incorporate the last weekend of Suffolk Open Studios.
 
Applications for next year’s S.O.S. opens tomorrow, 1st November. As EAG will be making our application in the next few weeks, it would be very helpful if the organising committee knew how many members will be participating.
There will be a form to sign at the Bowls club, from next week if you wish to exhibit.

Avril will be blogging next week. Please send contributions to her.

17 members at the bowls club today for a mark making workshop.
Beginning with  D.IY. Session making our own mark making tools, and exploring their mark making potential.
​Sticks of all kinds, coffee stirrers, satay sticks, matchsticks , cocktail sticks were topped bits of ‘Brillo’ pad, plastic milk carton cut into various shapes or fringed to form effective mark making tools

We began  some experimental mark making, to see the different marks that each tool could produce.

Next we divided a large A2 sheet of paper with masking tape, and using a large brush and three different colours of acrylic paint quickly painted in loose sweeping strokes in each colour.

Then we removed the masking tape and cut the paper up into separate sections, and then added more marks to each section using the tools that we had made earlier, using inks Neocolour crayons, and oil pastels. Producing some stunning results.

Diana.                                              Angela.                                                Avril

Lesley.                                                Harriet



Jackie.                                                                                                              Ian

Sally P                                                    Richard

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Sally T.                                                       Ian C.                                                 Ian J

Josie                                                     Jill 

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Carolyn has sent two completely different images this week. The first entitled From Black to White. Carolyn says ‘it looks quite attractive , but does it work’? I’m going to stick my neck oou here and say that for me it works the other way round, because my eye is drawn to the central focal point, ‘the black’
Next Two black and white drawings of Avril’s dogs looking extremely relaxed, not posing at all.

Frances has sent some recent sketches of the Palais de Luxumborg, Felixstowe, Walberswick and Southwold, and finally her mark making interpretation of an oyster shell, lovely!

And Hannah has sent two images, the first a drawing and then a beautiful almost translucent iPad image of a squid.

If any of the images that you see have been cut click on them and you should see the full image.
i apologise if I have wrongly attributed any of your work, it was more difficult then usual because I didn’t have the usual indicators of your particular painting styles.

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• Next week’s blogger will be Hannah, please send images to her.
• Sally P’s session next week is entitled ‘Celebrations’ and is timed to coincide with an exhibition at Thornham Village Hall, which is commemorating it’s 100th   birthday.
• So please bring any colours/ collage materials ideas that conjour up the idea of celebration to you.- Open to many interpretations.

​Sally

A great number of members, 17 in total and a super atmosphere was buzzing around. There were several important announcements made regarding a Watercolour workshop, Suffolk Open Studios and next week when Sally Ladbroke will be doing mark making, please look on the STOP PRESS for further details.   

Sally and Angela informing members, see stop press

Sally provided an attractive still life and posed very passionately for us.

John was very productive and enjoyed the graphite and the use of colour

Ian did his first portrait in colour using acrylics

Sally P used water soluble pencils and felt the hand on the right looked good

Angela was pleased with her logs but thought the portraits were poor, nobody else agreed

Jackie was a long way away as a lot of people wanted to do the portraits, next time I think we should put the model in the room a bit more so people can surround the model.

Harriet was productive, she liked the solidity of the chalks particularly the red one and also thought the hands were hard to draw.

I only did four this week using pastels and charcoal, members thought the pastel looked effective on the black paper.

Ian had a go using acrylics on his Derbyshire picture which is not finished yet. Jane made her usual graphic drawing and found it hard to get a likeness and felt it is harder drawing someone you know. Barry our newbie tried his hand at watercolour, like Ian C he has not finished it yet. 

Hannah was playing around with layers on her i pad using her special pencil, members hinted that they would like another session on computers.

Sally used watercolour and ink flowers which looked delicate. Eileen is still working on her painting,  members thought it was colourful and Angela thought the texture was good.  Josie did not have time to do the background and she thought the jar on the left was the wrong shape.

Elizabeth said she had not done anything for months  so enjoyed using the charcoal pencil. Sandra made a wonderful pastel of  flower which was realistic and had good movement and depth.

Blogger next week is Sally

Today was the first day of the standard winter programme at the Bowls Club.  12 members attended.  Plenty of views here of members hard at work, the model (thank you Jackie for this) and the still life (and thanks to Jackie for that too), which was suitably autumnal in theme and colour and featured a magnificently fungus-clad  log.  We also welcomed a new member, Barry, the first of several who we hope will enjoy the guild as much as the rest of us.

Frances says:
'First A3 water colour and inks. Used colours and shapes in the still life. Thought I had brought my pens but no, so found some feathers outside to use in true Sally L spirit!!!
Second based on begonias from outside club house. Shall probably chop it up for use in other ways!'

Lesley produced a quick line drawing and watercolour, and then a chalk pastel drawing, with real depth to the baskets.

So now we turn to the portraits, and some very good likenesses here...

Next, three from Jane

Harriet used charcoal, of which the general view was that it was a good medium for portraiture.

Sally T was feeling her way experimentally

And Avril said she was out of practice, I don't see that myself from her portraits, but she won't be for long anyway, at the rate she works!

Apologies to Barry, but  his picture does not seem to have reached me.  Hopefully that can be remedied next week.
I have been working on something at home, using pencil and procreate on my ipad, but it's not anywhere near ready to show. 
If you are interested in coming to the watercolour workshop on 14th November, please look at the Stop Press for details of materials required.  The minutes of the AGM Aand the Chairman's report will be on 'Messages from Members' shortly.
Hope to see you next week, providing nothing else intervenes!  Avril will be blogging next week, so send your contributions to her.
Hannah

Sixteen members were present this morning for our annual AGM.
Lesley and Maggie Anne led us efficiently through the morning’s business a précis of which I include here. The full version will be available in Messages for Members​

Lesley mentioned in her report the sad loss over the summer of Irene, a founder member, and Hilary.
​ Liz has also moved house. This leaves three vacancies, and three new members will be joining us shortly.
The Summer Programme included a variety of venues old and new, all appreciated,  presenting different challenges (no mention of the weather) and thanks must go to the programming committee for their hard work. Those of us who enjoy Plein air painting would really appreciate a bit more company, it’s much more enjoyable working outdoors when you are with a group of friends, so next year why not give it a try?

Ian reported that our finances were in a healthy position. The workshops that ran last winter had broken even, and  although they were expensive to run enough members participated to keep the costs down.
The winter programme starts next week *see note at the end of the blog
and includes  three professional workshops and three themed sessions led sessions by members.
 ( any suggestion for next summer sketching, or next winter workshops welcome )

Our annual summer exhibition at the United Reformed Church was disappointing. The exhibition sub committee have come up with some suggestions and as a result in June we will be participating in Suffolk Open Studios, and the Eye Open Gardens - more details to follow.

Thanks must go to Lesley and all the members of the committee for the hard work and commitment that goes into making the Guild such a successful group keeping it solvent and interesting, and for keeping  us on our toes. The rather formal title belies the vibrant and successful group that it is and on a personal note, the kindness and compassion that has made what could have been a horrible year for me more bearable.

After coffee we shared our favourite pieces of work from the summer

Angela has distilled her summer into a zig-zag sketch book, what a great idea to see all your sketches spread before  you, or in this case stretched, an idea worth copying.
she has also dipped her toes into abstract painting, not her natural element, but with her teacher’s hat on has told herself ‘not to be so narrow minded’ and this is the result.

Sally Tyley’s favourite summer images are of Thornham walled garden, a place she knows well, and she reflects as many of us do when we revisit a favourite spot how it has changed, and how our approach has changed over time.

Jo’s favourites from this summer show a departure, moving towards a colourful free interpretation of what she sees. We all like this change of direction, Jo of course is far too self-deprecating to agree!

Diana brought us the Tour de France, perfectly captured, and what she describes as ‘scribbling’! Using a double ended felt tipped pen and washes of water, bottom L&R finally working towards an image in acrylic to capture this approach.top R

Jackie has selected two images, Frog Farm, showing the lovely old buildings that edge the invisible road (top) and Old Hall Farm at Southwold with Jo, Ian and Sally P. Geared up to face the elements.
You see - this is the fun of Plein air sketching in a nutshell.

Avril has selected this picture from Thornham Woods, and believe me she had many to choose from…but I can see why, it’s a very distinctive monochrome image with the emphasis on the patterning and no distractions which makes it more powerful.

Elaine has chosen two ‘companion pieces’ lovely strong Mediterranean colours which evoke summer, heat, lazy relaxing days…

Frances has chosen her theme of the summer, colourful summer damselflies, a lovely composition of complimentary summer colours and strong graphic shapes, and a collage of previously printed leaves with a Swallowtail butterfly in acrylic.

Ian has chosen an image of Old hall Farm in Southwold looking across the estuary towards Walberswick.

And finally two lovely images of Freda, painting in the garden with her great grandson. This must surely sum up what creativity is all about making an image in the moment that you both share inspired by place.

Changeable weather for our last Plein air session today at Maggie Ann’s. Bright blue sky with fluffy clouds in one direction and heavy grey in the other.
Diana said that she suspected we would all be ‘scoffing delicious cake’. MINDREADER! Absolutely true.
We were also joined by two very enthusiastic new members Molly and Dusty, who continually checked to make sure that we were still present, and were extremely interested in sniffing our paint boxes and testing our water containers, but we persevered.
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Avril had completed two pencil sketches at the meeting indoors, and two more outside with a lovely leaf study 

Jackie painted the steps a nice brickwork and foliage subject, and brought two pictures from Dunwich which she painted the day after we visited.

Lesley concentrated on the colourful Rowan  tree with it’s clusters of bright orange/red berries
​ ( there must be a colour name for this…answers on a postcard please)

And I made a hasty sketch of a rose trellis arch, I was attracted to the different forms of the foliage, but difficult to capture in a loose sketch.

Continuing with the gardens theme, Carolyn has sent a picture of the Crab Apples in her garden. The great thing about the approach of Autumn is that those reds and oranges in the paintbox come into their own.

Diana has sent three images the original photo and stages one and two of the resulting picture, a lovely free atmospheric interpretation.

And this week Ian has been wearing his other hat, turning ducks, and very appealing they look too, so smooth and shiny.

What a glorious day for a walk in the woods for our merry band of 7 artists, Lesley joined us later on in the day and Sandra and Frances left a bit earlier

There were some stunning photos taken of the gnarled trees and inside the walled gardens where you could order marvellous cakes and tea served by some very willing helpers. 

Sandra was by a little pond and made a super charcoal sketch of it showing the reflection in the water and foliage and trees

Sally T produced three sketches, one in pencil which showed distance and two tree ones the first in pencil and the next in ink 

Sally L also showed distance in her colourful paintings you can really be lost inside them

Lesley came later today so only had a limited time on her painting but managed to capture the feel of the building. the tree ink drawing of a Cedar tree was done yesterday at Christchurch Park.

Sally P was busy drawing three stunning views tackling buildings, haystacks and trees

I quickly sketched some trees and berries, one has  a stylised feel

Frances sent these from this morning, the first scribble while enjoying scone and apple juice in the Walled Garden. Second a view in the Walled Garden which she took more time over.

Diana sent these, the first showing Thornham in 2015 and two colourful quick scribbles done today with Thornham in mind.

Harriet sent two sketches done this week in Wales as she had been lucky with the weather.

Carolyn has been adding colour to her BandW drawing  this week and is not sure she likes it, but is experimenting. the second drawing is a Sedum from her garden and I think she has captured the complexity of it.

Another lot of lovely entrants this week, Sally L is the blogster next week.

Seven members disregarded the weather forecast today to sketch at Dunwich, and of course, on this occasion, the weatherman/woman got it mostly right.  Here in Brundall we had hail and heavy rain at unpredictable intervals during the day.  Autumn has definitely set in.  Sally P took some wonderful photos of the threatening skies overhead, as you can see below...

Lesley is in Northumberland.  She says, 'Greetings from sunny but freezing cold Northumberland.
Two sketches whilst walking in the National Park. First looking across Kielder Water towards the dam. Abandoned due to midges!
'Second of Waterfall on tributary of North Tyne. Have discovered it’s very difficult to convey falling water with basic watercolour. I may attempt this in oils when I get home.'

Here are Sally P's sketches, Pen and ink looking out to sea from the cliff top and  w/c pencil sketch of the view towards Southwold. Rain stopped play before she could start a pastel of the same view.

Here are Ian C's sketcches from today, in preparation for a painting...

And these are Angela's sketches, made before sadly decamping to the cafe after lunch, because of the rain.

Next week will be much closer to home - Thornham Walks.  Hope to see you there.  The blogger will be Avril, so send her your contributions.

Five hardy Plein air painters braved Peasenhall this week, not me, I’m afraid the ‘air’ was a bit too Plein for me and I chickened out. The painting conditions were so challenging in fact that members had to spend more time than usual in the cafe…in fact the cafe was such a lure that some found it difficult to leave…

Ian C has sent two drawings from Peasenhall, and says that ‘ he was the last one to be working’ 
this sounds like a veiled reference to the frequenters of the cafe to me.

Here are Sally P's drawings from Peasenhall.

Carolyn for a change has been  drawing in 4b pencil.  Very effectively highlighting the different patterns and textures of the textiles 

Diana has been working with her fingers in order to loosen up, and has sent three luscious colourful images

Avril has sent this delightful pastel portrait of a Chimpanzee.

And Hannah has recently been working in collage P1&P2, and the third, with the whale, is collage enhanced with drawing in Procreate on her iPad.

I’ve worked on my last week’s sunflower picture which I started off in acrylics and then worked into with Neocolour crayons and oil pastels.

Hannah is in charge of the blog next week, so send any contributions to her.

​Sally

So sorry that there was not a blog last week due to a busy time by the bloggers. Members  enjoyed Judith's garden last week and we had a glorious day today at Frog Farm where the Sunflowers looked magnificent and some of the pumpkins were out.  

Below are the pumpkin flowers, bee hives and some more sunflowers

Ian made two oil paintings, one of the sunflowers but unfortunately artists planted their easels in front of him so it made it a bit difficult. He made a start on a close up of two sunflowers.

Sally L used acrylic ink to do the first painting and she showed the recession of the flowers beautifully in both, and Sally said  the trees and sky in the background worked well.

Frances was busy with her watercolours and also did some drawings and a painting from last week

Jackie loosened up by drawing sunflowers and achieved wonderfully realistic paintings  

Sally P was very productive today and did her doodle sketches painted hut and pencil  drawings of a wooden shelter.

Two sketches from Sally P done in Judith's garden last week.

Harriet painted a closeup of the sunflowers, the hut and showed style bringing the eye into the landscape.

she also showed skill in perspective last week at Judith's 

Lesley produced the most realistic colours in these paintings the pumpkin was subtle and the sunflowers viberant.

I also received from Lesley a painting done last week

I did my usual trick by doing too much

Carolyn sent in two drawings which also show how clever she is to put in so much detail

Judith e mailed these wonderful sketches done in pencil and ink, I think they have so much character, they look like they are pecking away merrily. 

Diana said she had been finishing an old painting taken from even older sketch done on Bodmin Moor, 'Not sure why I find sketching really easy and painting so difficult...'

Jane took sunflowers home to draw and took photos this morning. 'I'm hoping to do more work based on this mornings visit to Frog farm.'

Thank you everybody that contributed to the blog it is most appreciated. 

Sally is blogster next week