What a great day to be in the bowls club inside nice and cosy while the rain persists. Hannah made an oriental style still life that was very colourful with lots of bamboo and interesting bangles. Hannah arrived bright and early and set up

Lots of poses were selected today starting with a standing pose then one sitting on armchair and another on armrest

Sally P produced several drawings and paintings today.

Jenny did a delicate watercolour.
Sally made a lovely expressive mixed media and pen and ink 

Lesley experimented with watercolour paints and also did a still life.
Harriet produced a still life with a landscape-like feel.
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Jackie did two drawings of Hannah and a watercolour of flowers

Frances says Bonjour and sends a quick sketch of some daffodils.  This is followed by a very small butterfly using gold leaf and acrylic. She says the ersatz gold leaf is very tricky to manipulate.  The  small linocut is to be finished with two other blocks when she gets home.

Hannah sent me her iPad drawings from this morning which I think are very expressive
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I have a gallery of drawings as usual.  (Avril)

Here is a drawing from Carolyn, another interesting composition.

Don’t forget that next week is Lesley and Avril’s workshop. All details are on Stop Press, but Lesley added today that you might need small containers or yogurt pots for mixing texture. See you there!

Sorry not to have made it to Eye myself this morning, the weather warnings were somewhat alarming.  I am very lucky to have Avril as my co-blogger, as she has sent not only the photos from the morning, but also a round up of some of the comments from the end of the morning showing.  So first of all, the scene setting for both still life and portraits (thanks to Judith for both this morning).

The first  four of these portraits are John's work. The next four are  Elizabeth's distinctive drawings (she said she liked to draw feet).

The next group includes the very prolific Avril (7 drawings!), who also produced the 'group' that is a sketch of Judith's moving pose.  And giving her a run for her money, Ian J., with another four.  Finally, two pencil sketches from Frances, followed by a pen drawing from Sally T.

Diana has asked that we pass on her thanks to everyone for their kind thoughts following the death of her husband.
There will shortly be some details on Stop Press for the workshop Lesley and Avril are doing on 7th March, what to bring and so on, so make sure you check there.  I have added some info on Messages from Members today that might be of interest, about  the Stradbroke Annual Exhibition, and a film show at the Bank. 
Thanks again to Avril for her sterling contribution this week to the success of the blog.  Next week you will get my still life and me as a model, as I have swapped my turn with Ian J (and Josie), who will now do 14th March.   Got to get my thinking cap on!  Have a good week.

Not really.  This is what the Bowls Club must have looked like this morning, with no power.  I think we could have managed without the heat (lots of layers) and the kettle (thermoses), but you can see from the above, how dark it can be in the depths of the room. 
The Blog has been rescued from potential invisibility by the hardy souls who have sent work in today from their sheds and studios flung around deepest Suffolk.  Thank you to all of them for their contributions.

From Frances, a butterfly in the process of being painted on a piece of cut up printing she had done.
The second two are Ginkgo prints turned into cards which she has done recently.

Sally P hope you have had a good morning devoted to EAG!  She says, 'I myself have had a productive one.  I went over to my studio to paint the prints of previous pen and ink drawings with watercolor. I had also made a lino cut which I printed onto cards. I'm pretty pleased with it as I haven't done one since school! ( A couple of years ago, if my memory is correct!). It's not perfect but I like the effect.
'These are all for my sister in law's coffee morning in aid of the British Heart Foundation.......And.....I sorted out and tidied up some of the dumped work from previous weeks and months!'  Well, difficult to top that!

I've been busy with my iPad, using Procreate to make some bird drawings for greetings cards.  Rather enjoyable. I also turned a watercolour into a small oil, and a big oil into a small one, but that was actually last week!

Well, hopefully next week we will be back at the Bowls Club, as usual, with more pictures all round, lots of still life and portraits of Judith (whose week it will be).  Have a good week.  Today was really much warmer than recent weeks have been, let's hope the seasons have turned a corner, and we'll get more of the same.

The workshop was a wonderful thing to do on such a wet grey day. Sue was very knowledgeable and organised giving us plenty of information on photocopied sheets

She bought some very colourful flowers, fresh and artificial to give us inspiration

Sue also displayed some of her work

Sue started the demonstration showing how the different colours reacted with each other  

Everyone started work and Sue came around and gave everybody instruction on the way we coukd improve or work

After lunch there was another demonstration showing how to paint white flowers

At the end of the session we all gathered around and discussed every painting 

Here is Carolyn's work for the blog this week, with her comment, 'I have had a very quick WC go at our lovely snowdrops, which seem to thrive here.'
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Thanks to Angela for taking over this week at short notice.  She then threw herself into modelling with some gusto - I don't think we have had anyone lying down on the job for some considerable time, or with such theatricality! The  portraitists were all thoroughly absorbed.  She also gave us an interesting still life, with lots of varied shapes and texture.

Josie started the plenary session at the end of the morning, when all the work was put up for comment by those who had stayed the distance.  The first five portraits are from Avril, then Judith, two from Ian,, a  page of bodies from Freda, sally T, then, lastly, Josie.  Tthere were more in the group than this (a total of 22 people came today, including Angela) but quite a few went off early, without having their work photographed (you know who you are!)

Here is the work done around the still life.  I know I did pine cones last week as well, but they are rather absorbing and interesting to draw. Again, there are some people who left early... Most of these are labelled, but the first three are me (Hannah), Liz and Frances.

Next week is an all-day watercolour workshop.  Those of you who are attending, see Stop Press for details of what to bring.  The blog will be in the capable hands of Avril next week.  She will be reporting on the workshop, if you are not going, but you have something you want to share, please feel free to send it to her.
Don't forget the Chairman's Project, Looking Up!  Have an enjoyable week.