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26th March with Penny

26/3/2026

Today Penny produced a marvelous still life and stayed very still for the portraits also taking off her glasses for the last pose

penny sitting for us

Penny's lovely still life

Sally T liked the texture on the water soluble one although she thought the other one was freer

Angela used a few colours so lots of mixing was required, the lemons seem to jump off the page, Angela said she might crop it. The second one was Sally P's very striking peachy yellow colours.

Elaine used acrylics and decided that she was going to produce a bit of sharpness by adding highlights. Jackie's basket in watercolour has lovely shapes and the pepper looks like it is popping out.

Sally P drew a very convincing pencil sketch of the thistles and Dianna's arrangement was done in her fluid style.

Elizabeth sketched with her usual technique

Avril made 5 sketches and Lauren's four abstract type sketches which also show his original style

John seems to improve no end, I like the third one of King Charles cut into two

Lesley made a pastel painting of the river using bright and harsh contrasts on Not paper which she said did not have much tooth and there was a hidden boat somewhere. Maggie-Anne's Hare has a nice posture and is beautifully sketched.

Just a quickie from Carolyn
We have a large patch of daffodils in the garden and this drawing is just before they all open. A lovely splash of colour now to cheer us all up!

Please note that the renewal forms need to be in by April and that the next weeks Blogger is Hannah.

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March 19th, 2026

19/3/2026

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There were 16 of us at the bowls club this morning for Ian Cotgrove’s session.
An array of indoor games equipment was the theme of the day for the still life table, and Ian himself was our model.
We all agreed that Ian has a ‘good face’ for drawing, full of character and interest, and some good likenesses were produced in a variety of media and approaches.

Members have been reminded to sign or label their work ( for the sake of the bloggers) and in future if your work is not attributed we will assume that you wish to remain anonymous.

First signs of spring in Carolyn’s garden, daffodils among the grass.

portraits of Ian from Laurans and Angela.

from Penny and Sally Tyley

from Jackie and Avril

from Ian Jones and Elizabeth

and from Frances Ian in charcoal and pencil, charcoal and Khole, and Art Graf and charcoal.
and a touching portrait of her grandson George in ink in the style of Lucien Freud (after visiting the National Portrait Gallery.)

and finally from me, drawings in charcoal.

Sally P ‘s portrait and a pack of cards from the still life table, and the same pack of cards from Jo.

Maggie Ann and Diana both opted for a bunch of spring flowers, Diana included some games pieces
and Sandra started a pastel of a daffodil.

Jane’s composition of items from the still life, and Hannah used her iPad to create this colourful image à la Hockney.

And finally a few reminders…

Subs are now due please pay Ian , and fill in a new membership form updating permissions for Avril
A sign in sheet for the acrylic landscape workshop with Tom Cringle is now available
Entry forms for our two exhibitions are due in on Thursday 9th of April. Please give paperwork to Angela, Frances or me. ( information and forms on the exhibitions section of our website) NB there is a slight change to the bank exhibition, we no longer have to steward
Next week’s blogger is Avril.

Sally

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March 12th Eye Bowls Club

12/3/2026

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Lesley’s print workshop.
Nine of us blew in to the bowls club today for Lesley’s printing workshop.
Lesley introduced us to Funky Foam, an adhesive backed dense foam sheet which can be cut into shape and stuck onto a foam board backing block to produce individual and quite intricate stamp patterns.
this turned out to be an extremely versatile ‘tool’ Lesley demonstrated lots of different examples of the ways in which it could be used from the ‘formal’ registered print , to informal overlaying to create unique pieces. She had lots of examples to inspire us including her own beautiful textile work.

You can see from the finished examples how versatile this approach was, Some of us working with precision and some (me) lucky accidents.

We spent the time before coffee drawing up our designs and cutting and constructing our ‘stamps’
and then used them in conjunction with Gelliplate printing plates and acrylic ink, to produce prints on a variety of papers, and creating different background effects.
( it’s amazing how beautiful a bit of scrunched up and smoothed out paper can look when pressed into a gelliplate)
Lesley is so knowledgeable about materials and techniques and we all thoroughly enjoyed the space to play and experiment.
We are very fortunate to have guild members with such expertise.

Avril experimented with different backgrounds and varied pressure to produce strong , bold, and also very delicate images with different backgrounds.

Maggie Ann used her own image of a hare top left for her stamp, top middle ,and they were off, bouncing through the grass !

Angela worked on an image of a smoke bush from her garden, (stamp top middle) using the autumn colours of the bush and overlaying images on different backgrounds keeping the same colour palate

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Ian C worked on some images, the tiger,for a convincing 3D effect from previous printing sessions, painting in stripes and cut a new Woodpecker stamp to work on further at home.

Ian J had a very successful day with Crows! A selection of his work showing how effective carefully registering your images can be.

Josie produced this lovely delicate image of a hare, the colours are quite a contrast to her normal palette, but work well together.

Sally P worked on peacock images using different background techniques, and produced a lovely background image ( click on image for full effect) by leaving a ghost of a previous image and inking another colour over the top and then pulling off the combined image in a print.

Here are my images, I really like the effect of not cleaning my plate and leaving a ghost images which I ink over and print.
top L is my roller clean off page which I drew into.

And finally Lesley’s prints, many produced from the flower stamp, left hand middle.
and layered images, again ghost prints inked up and printed over, top row.

And this really is nearly the end…

There is a sheet to sign up for Tom Cringle’s contemporary acrylic landscapes all day workshop on April 9th, cost £30.00. You can see examples of his work on www.tomcringle.co.uk
Information and entry forms for our two up and coming exhibitions can now be found on the ‘exhibitions’ section of the website.
on the Chairman’s messages section of the website there is a breakdown of results from Maggie Ann of the recent survey about the summer programme.
Annual subscriptions are now due
Next week’s blogger will be Harriet

Sally

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5TH MARCH 2026 - WITH BARRY

5/3/2026

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There was general agreement today that Barry had a face that was particularly interesting to draw, and there were a fair few good likenesses produced. His still life included a lot of glass pieces, which are also interesting as subjects, and the daffodils (real) and tulips (not), brought spring into the room on a bright and sunny day.

First, Carolyn shares her drawing of a cardigan knitted with wool that magically produces a pattern - and, right, the very cardigan!

Here are Maggie-Anne's Sally P's, and Lesley's take on the still life, along with Sally P's portrait of Barry.

And here is mine (Hannah), Joanna's and Jenny's...

Sally T and Angela were members of the portrait group, with different views of Barry...

These are from Penny, Jackie and Sally L, who was using big blocks of charcoal, following a workshop she attended.

Avril (first left) and Ian J (the next four) were both very prolific this morning...

Here is Jill's portrait...

Frances worked on a scratchboard swan, the still life and a portrait of Barry, giving Avril and Ian a run for their money!

Please note that next week's session, with Lesley, is a printmaking workshop. This is an all day session (if you want to stay all day). Please don't come unless you intend to participate. The equipment list is on Stop Press.

Keep an eye out for information coming shortly about the exhibitions to be held in June at the Bank and Eye Town Hall. This will be on the Exhibitions page.
There will also be some feedback coming shortly from the recent survey about the Summer Programme.

Next week's blogger is Sally L. Contributions should be sent to her.

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26th March with Penny

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5TH MARCH 2026 - WITH BARRY

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