20th January 2022

Another freezing day and I was late.  I wanted to reference Reggie Perrin and say, 'Fifteen minutes late - gas works on the A47' but the Yupo workshop had already started, so I kept quiet...
I am going to do something a bit different with the pictures today, as I went round taking photos as the ink and watercolour ran across the Yupo paper, and people wiped some off and then added more.  I think that if I knew what I was doing, I could use some of the effects from today in a more planned way, but there is a good deal of fun to be had in playing with materials that you are not familiar with, and no pressure to produce a finished piece.

First, though, Carolyn has been busy at home in two ways - making Seville marmalade and also making a drawing to illustrate the marmalade.  I like the light coming through the marmalade in the jar, clever use of the shadow below.

Diana didn't make it this morning either, so this week having carried on playing with Alkyds, she has sent the result.  She says, 'Very  thin and  slippery, not sure what I’m doing ,the more I did the worse it got. Started off with sketch done on the spot at Zennor several years ago,remember having a very good ice cream.'  Final result looks very interesting to me...

So now on to the workshop...
There were thirteen of us (as you can see, all hard at work) and Sally and Frances had brought in some examples for us to look at, including a finished piece by Frances.

Here are some images of people working as we get towards coffee time...

These next are not necessarily finished, but were photographed near to the end of the morning...

As you can see, all quite different!  Thanks to Sally P and Frances for putting this together.  Next week, Les is in charge of a still life and a model.