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thursday 3oth November, Bowls Club

30/11/2017

Hannah transported us to the seaside with her 'swimming' fish* and beautiful seashells. With imagination, some members have actually portrayed the sea, or given an impression of it - well done! For those more attuned to the countryside, cardoons and the like from her garden were presented in the other still life.
As the model, Hannah was excellent and gave us two long poses - I say 'long' but they are never long enough. (I wonder where she was transported to with her tablet constantly in her hand?)

At break time, Sally P handed us our 'homework' - a patch each to paint for the composite picture which is revealed at our Christmas party. And Les reminded us of our obligations to the panto, which will no doubt be his customary rib-tickling masterpiece.

* ... although I definitely saw one fish on wheels - is this the ever-increasing sea polution?

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Update, Thursday evening: more pictures just added - I missed a page out before (thanks Carolyn!)

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thursday 23rd November: Richard's extravaganza

23/11/2017

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Richard created a revolution at the club today. At least he tried to re-create the effect of one, with his peasant women armed with scythes and axes (the plural here is for effect - there was only one of each), political posters and intense red everywhere. He even dressed up as a peasant himself (hardly his normal attire!) Besides marking the centenary of the Russian revolution, Richard urged us to get in touch with our emotions while painting. You will have to judge for yourselves how far we achieved that.

He had the lovely rebels, Emily and Beth, and armies of foot-soldiers detailed to attend to the battle ground (= set up the still lifes and other 'scenery'). The session began with Richard welcoming us to "The Art of Revolution" ...... and he gave us handout texts to put us in the right frame of mind (see below).

Commander organising his troops

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Thursday 16th November, bowls club with sally T.

16/11/2017

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The still life set-ups seem to be proving increasingly popular. Perhaps this is because our presenters are getting more selective in their choice of objects, but also because people are now closer to the objects yet still have good room to work.

It is so interesting to see what other people do. Ideas can be picked up and shared. One piece was painted on crumpled brown paper, to be applied to textile as a basis for an embroidered work.

Sally also sat as our model, giving us one pose before the coffee break and another one after. How still she remained throughout her poses!

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thursday 9th November at the Bowls club

9/11/2017

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It was Claire's turn to set up today and didn't she do well! The two still life's were each themed, with a variety of objects for colour, tone and texture, but not overdone. Her daughter Lucy was excellent as the model and a real challenge with her fair colouring and beautiful skin. Thanks Claire - and Lucy. (Click images to enlarge them.)

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thursday 2nd November, John Glover workshop

2/11/2017

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Portraits in oils - quite a daunting prospect for some of us but we all coped manfully after some basic advice about oils and quick demonstrations from John.

The first demonstration was a conventional but quick fire oil painting of Julie. Some of us then had the lovely Julie as our model, while the more craggy Rob sat for the rest. Just trying to manage the application of oils to canvas is tricky enough, without also trying to get a likeness and produce an interesting image! We had varying degrees of success, as you will see, but well done everybody!

After lunch John treated us to demonstration of palette knife (and/or credit-card) painting, which, as he said, could be wild and fun. This appeared to influence subsequent painting: more boldness crept in even where pure knife-painting was not attempted. This was an enjoyable and instructive workshop - many thanks to John and to the members who helped to arrange it.

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thursday 3oth November, Bowls Club

thursday 23rd November: Richard's extravaganza

Thursday 16th November, bowls club with sally T.

thursday 9th November at the Bowls club

thursday 2nd November, John Glover workshop

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