8th October 2020

9TH OCTOBER 2020
I don't know what it happening between Lesley's house and mine, but I think her emails are going by snail, they take longer to get to me than if she had walked round with them herself.  So here are her pictures from yesterday.

As you will have seen from the email recently sent out to members, it was decided to try the experiment of holding a Zoom meeting this morning, to get together and to give one another an idea of what we had been up to today, as though we had gathered around after a normal morning's session at the Bowls Club. I think it was reasonably successful.  There were a few hiccups, and a couple of late joiners, but about 12 of us managed to see and hear one another, and share a few pictures, that you will find on this page, together with other work.  The intention is to keep the Zoom meetings going, with Avril as moderator.  It has been suggested that any members who think that participation might be hard for them because of hearing difficulties, should try using ear or headphones plugged into their computer or tablet.  Once you are on Zoom, set the screen to 'Gallery View', so you can see everyone, not just the person speaking at the time (There are white circles on the left of the screen that show these settings; the icon for 'Gallery View' has little squares in it).

First Avril's pastel of apples.  Great use of pattern in this arrangement.  Lots of thanks from those who attended the Zoom meeting to Avril for organising it (and to Richard for all his tech help)

Here are Carolyn's Bramley apples, in the light from the window.  Very effective.  And she has also sent a picture of her modelling the waistcoat that was the subject of a previous painting.

Frances says, 'Lovely to join in Zoom this morning and thank you to Avril’s husband for being so patient and helpful. First drawing completed the other day with coloured pencils and a little bit of my Art Graf mixed for the blue and then my acrylic version on small box canvas and then my Art Graf doodle done while we were zooming!'  Frances introduced us all to Art Graf this morning.  It is based on Tailor's Chalk, and can be drawn with and then wetted with a brush to blend and change the colour.

Here is Diana's take on one of the subject photos from last week.
'Pink Sunflowers with Sally's  squash'

And now Sally's continuation of her work on the arrangement of squashes from last week:
'Same squash started in oils this week. It's been quite a challenge getting the colours matched.
It was great to see friends on Zoom this morning. Thank you Avril.'

Jane's harvest acrylic, which she showed this morning, at a slightly earlier stage.  She is happier with it now that she has added colour to the top half, but still has reservations. Love the contrast of the apples on the dark base.

Here is Harriet's picture for this week.  She says, 'I have called it 'before the rain' for obvious reasons. I wanted to make the leaves in the border a bit abstract and patterned. I think I shall play around with it a bit more.'

This delicate watercolour June calls 'Forgotten Onions'.  I'm not sure if that's because she forgot she had it, or because the onions have started to sprout.  I think the latter, but anyway, lovely colour and composition.

Another painting from Les Bragg that we have to thank Sally P. for sending in.

I haven't finished this drawing yet - why did I choose a tea towel with intricate and irrelevant pictures on it?  And I am also giving you a past still life from when we still met in the real world (IRL as the millenials have it) as a subject prompt for next week, as well as a landscape photo.
I hope some more of you will be encouraged to join us next week on Zoom?