We were 11 at coffee, though arrival was spread through the morning. Angela and Judith had to leave before tea. My apologies to them [Hannah] that my photo was taken at tea time, but by then we were all at one table at the wonderful Earsham Street Cafe, who looked after us very well. The weather was dry, but colder than some had expected, and of course, if you are sitting still, you get even colder. Bungay was busy, with a market at the Butter Cross, and a church event for VE Day. I have included some scene setting photos. In some you may spot EAG members at work. As Avril wasn't with us today there was some competition for who could produce the most sketches -
The first two here are Josie's, she used charcoal and a nitram stick for the first drawing, watercolour, charcoal, ink, whatever she had in the second,. Then we have Ian J's sketch from the churchyard, and Sally T's sketches of the churchyard and then the meadows. The last of these is across two pages, and much larger than it looks here.
| Sally L had to leave us in the middle of the day, but returned for tea. She had made this sketch in the meadows by the river, looking across at a group of trees. |  |
Jackie drew a sketch with many notes to enable the making of a painting, in the churchyard, and then painted a watercolour showing some of the many greens in the landscape. Sally P also chose the arch (you can see them both hard at work in my photo of the churchyard above), and then produced a sketch of Jackie, deep in concentration, surrounded by her equipment.
Highest on the leader board for the 'Avril' this week was Ian C, with a wide array of sketches, showing the variety of subject matter in the town.
| Frances put into practice Jackie's 'stroll and sketch' ideas from last week, to produce the first three here, and then spent some time on a drawing of a flint wall. |   |
  | Diana was not able to join us this week, but using 'Street Scene' she finished this collage started a couple of years ago of the view of the cottages from the path through the churchyard. and added the chickens who used to be on the roundabout. |
| Here is a charming pastel portrait Avril has done of her granddaughter, she was busy with pottery this morning, and could not join us. |  |
| I ended up using my iPad, so that I didn't have to carry too much with me. Here are three sketches using a square format on 'Procreate', using their Derwent pencil tool, with my Apple pencil. The straight lines in the last sketch are a bit of a cheat, as the program helps you make them! |    |
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