20th October 2022 - with Sally L.

quick late addition

Here are two pictures from Freda, from this morning's work, which arrived later.  She tackled both the still life and the portrait.

Today Sally L set up an autumnal still life and provided some action poses for the portrait artists, with binoculars, very Biggles!

The morning started out quite chatty, but we did eventually all settle down to work in deepest concentration - as you can see below.

Above, the drawings resulting from Sally's first poses, and below, without binoculars.  Harriet added more colour to hers when she went home, and Avril filled several pages of her sketchbook.

And here is the work done from the still life, which you can see some of in my panorama above, but, I have failed to photograph more than the section I was drawing (!).  I have, however, included that photo if anyone wants to use it for their own drawing practice.  There was a consensus that the stone grapes were the most fantastic subject, so simple and yet so complex, with all that reflected light.

As usual, there were a number of members who chose to work on their own subjects.  First Noreen, who started with a drawing of Sally, and went on to this delightful bearded tit, from a photograph.

Next Ian, who was working on a landscape from his holiday.

And then Diana (who I must thank for the photo of Sally, above), who worked from her own still life.

In addition, Noreen sent me a lovely watercolour by June, painted at the Bank on Wednesday, of colourful autumn leaves...

And finally, from Carolyn, a drawing of logs to suggest winter warmth that we all will be hoping for, and a drawing of a hen pheasant with a story.  The pheasant appears to have an injured wing, and has become habituated to running to Roy to be fed, well away from where the pigeons can get at the food!

Next week Angela will be in charge of the first of the themed mornings (although you can stay for longer as the Bowls Club has been booked for the day.  She will be sharing what she has learned this year about using alkyd oils with a digger knife.  Details of what to bring and what will be provided can be found on the Messages from Members page.  If you want to stay all day, don't forget to bring a packed  lunch.
In three weeks time, on !0th November, there will be a Workshop on Landscape in Oils by James Power.  If you are interested see the 'Messages from Members' page for further details.

Noreen will be in charge of this page next week, so send your entries to her in good time.