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27th november 2020

26/11/2020

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Three late runners this week.
First Sally Ladbrooke:
Here are the original herring, which I started last week, which although a bit of a hackneyed subject were so pretty.
Mine have put on a bit of weight! Probably because I just couldn’t resist the temptation to add another layer. I stuck some newspaper onto a sheet of cartridge first, then used oil pastel and acrylic ink, and then more pastel, and more ink, especially that red ink!
Thanks for the tips on using newspaper as a base, wallpaper paste made it crinkled (This follows discussion on Zoom), PVA doesn’t stick evenly, -next time I’ll try the spray adhesive, or Pritt Stick.
These are Harriet's, 'Rose in Hebe', and two swimming pools.  'Both pictures are, of course, studies of water. I enjoyed the patterns made by the water, made still by the photo, and copied it as best as I could, but became fed up and so some areas are more impressionistic. I might still do a bit more to it, I think it has a bit more mileage in it.'  She told us on Zoom that they were mixed media - a bit of everything.
Finally, here's a contribution from Ian.
'Having not contributed for a while I thought I should pull my finger out. Whilst I haven’t been inspired very much I have finished off a painting from a photo from the distant past. This is somewhere in the country side in Norfolk.
The other one is a lockdown walk and is of Westhorpe church from the fields at the rear.
Now that I have picked up the brushes again I hope to keep at it.'

26th november 2020

Here's a challenge.  For the blog of 10th December (that's giving you a good two weeks), instead of the usual mix of pictures, it has been proposed that everyone who wants to participate, should make a digital Christmas card, addressed to their fellow members.  So get your thinking caps on and paintbrushes etc. at the ready!
Suggestions/inspiration from Jane this week.  Left to right: Simple Still Life; Remember Summer? and Visit to Cambridge Last Year.

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Carolyn sent me a drawing of a barn owl, flying out of the night.
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And Maggie-Anne has drawn a black labrador in shadow as a Christmas gift for friends who have just acquired two lab pups.
She continues, 'Sadly I lost my beautiful gentle Dottie dog in September but the picture reminds me of her too'.

Two very different animal images using darkness to very effectively.

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Sally P. says, 'A play around with pastel this morning and inks this afternoon. Inks are so unforgiving and permanent. '  She told us on Zoom this morning that she was a bit regretful about using up different pastel paper for the first still life, having so much enjoyed the Pastelmat paper recently.
We were unable to see Sally T. this morning, but she gamely described what she had been doing, and has sent these images with plenty of description.'The still life of looking through the window I showed last week but was not able to send a decent image until today. Oil on canvas. I struggled with this towards the end. Having spent ages on it I think I should try some quicker oil sketches on a smaller scale next time.
'I am now going to work on a silk screen print using a hand cut stencils. I am working out the image using water colour. I want something simple on the lines of Morandi but also very fixed on a surface which is a wooden box. I did an acrylic painting of jugs using a sponge to dye the calico a while ago which does not work. The objects appear as if they are floating in space but I like the colours.'
I hadn't noticed the floating until I read the description.  I think it looks sufficiently abstract that it doesn't matter anyway.
Diana, Jackie and Avril also took the still life that Harriet assembled as a jumping-off point, with differing results.
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First Avril, who said,
'Yesterday I received my copy of the Artist and saw an article by Shirley Trevena and this inspired me to try something different.  I realised it is very much like Diana’s work. 
I started off having great fun not worrying about perspective and tried to be free, but towards the end I think I lost my way.  Never mind it is better to have a go than not learn as you go along.
I think the items should blend into each other a bit better and overlap, Shirley looks at the items at different angles and I copied this week's blue still life.
Next Diana:
'Harriet’s blue still life turned out to be all about  orange and purple...'
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And from Jackie:
'The still life was more challenging than I first thought with all the different blues and tones. Took much concentration but thanks, Harriet, for setting up those photos for us to use. I liked the fabric pattern too.
I just fell in love with these Turkeys.  They live on a local farm which is on one of my local walks.  They are always so excited to see people and rush towards the boundary fence with guttural globs of bubbling sound, fluffing out their chests and sooty black feathers and staring with their weird faces. This is my second attempt at painting them and capturing their character.'
I have carried on with the shoe theme, with another pair of my old shoes (colour and sketching pencils), and then thought I had better explain why they end up looking as they do, hence the feet, in the same medium, which I have to say, when you look at them for that amount of time, look very odd!

Have a good week, and enjoy the end of lockdown!
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