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 !


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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.


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


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


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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.


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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.


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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.

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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

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.

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...

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.

Angela's workshop - Tone and Shape

Something different!

A good turn out, there were 17 of us plus Angela, ready to start at 10am (well nearly, after that cup of coffee). There was a lot to get through as we only had the morning to do it all. Everyone worked very hard. It was an enjoyable morning.

See the details of the workshop below. In summary we painted several pieces of paper different shades of grey plus black and white, then spent some time mark-making, and finally cutting out or tearing shapes to make a compostion or 2 (or 3 even)

Above are some examples that Angela showed us, of paintings by 1. Barbara Rae, 2 Matisse, 3. Rembrant, with the colour saturation made to zero and therefore seen as tonal images.

After Angela explained what to do, we all started. It all got a bit messy at times, (at least I did - painting my hands and my top) - that's the fun of it and  it was all cleared away at the end.

Angela also included a breathing/ drawing exercise - see above as well. Take a deep breathe and at the same time as exhaling, draw a line, as long as the breathe lasts.

The final compostions, see below, were all very diverse and extremely interesting. First up is Angela's example, followed by Avril's 3 compostions and then Barry's. Next Frances's and  Jill's 2

  Then we have Ian J's, Jackie's, and Jane's, followed by Jo's,  Judith's 2 and Josie's

 Next we have Leslie's,  Maggie Ann's,  Penny's, Sally P's 2,  Sally T's, and followed by mine

It really is hard to tell whose is whose (only Jackie put her name on her work)  and if they are the right way round.

Finally here are a few examples of mark making and Lesley's wonderful accidental image.

Thanks very much to Angela to her hard work

Next weeks blogger is Hannah

I counted 17 members this morning - still a good turnout, especially with the depressing weather that seems to have been hanging over us for so many weeks now. Jill's still life, with it's promise of summer flowers, and hats to keep the sun from your eyes, was a lift to the spirits.  Her first pose was very bold, as you can see below, and hard on the knees!  After coffee break, she settled in to a longer, more comfortable pose.  You can see the foreshortening I had to look at in the last photo below.  Good practice!

Frances worked from the still life (first with a representational drawing and then playing with the shapes she could see in it) and then drew Jill.

Here are Jackie's portraits, together with Sandra's

These are Laurens's  (the first four), and Penny's

These from Sally T and Jane

And these are by Ian J, who was trying out a new technique involving scribbling in the first of these.

I [Hannah] had a go at Sally P's technique, but there was a fair amount of cheating in producing this still life.  I spoiled it anyway by adding colour - should have remembered that I wouldn't be able to get rid of it once I'd added it.  The portrait has the full foreshortening of Jill's legs, but I think it is mostly OK.

Next week Angela is doing a workshop for her session, on the theme of 'Looking at Shape and Tone in Composition'.  There are more details on the Stop Press page, including a list of equipment to bring.  There won't be a model or a still life, but you may come and bring something of your own to work on, if you want to.
Harriet will be the blogger next week.  Send contributions to her.

Twenty two members were present at the bowls club this morning surely a record for this year?

A different format for today’s session, members brought along their own subjects to work on either working towards our *exhibition to coincide with Eye Open Gardens , or on individual projects.
This demanded a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT BLOGGING FORMAT TOO! so I have attempted to capture each piece of work in situ with equipment used. 

Frances was working on Scraperboard, particularly effective for her picture of a hare silhouetted against the moon

Jill was working on a  portrait of her grand daughter with dog in pastels, a lovely double portrait.

Josie worked further on her powerful black and white image from a photograph that she started last week.

​and Ian gave us all a taste of bright and beautiful summer days with this colourful acrylic ‘still life with knockout flowers’ 

Lesley was working in acrylics on the landscape from behind her house, which anyone who has been to Lesley’s house will instantly recognise a lovely view of uninterrupted farmland.

Maggie Ann had been observing a Sparrow hawk  visiting her bird table, and the other smaller birds which he was presumably eyeing up for his lunch. 

Laurens brought an ‘extra hand’ - articulated model, but also used his own hand for some intensive studies in pencil, ( sorry that this is such a poor picture)

Avril used the amazing photography of micro rhizomes and other fungi as inspiration for her future textile work, they already look as if they are almost three dimensional textile forms.

Penny painted this very sweet spring lamb in watercolour, who could resist that!

I was experimenting with different media and brushes towards a painting of a Fuchsia ( any excuse to use Opera Pink)

Jackie painted some delicate Hellebores, very suited to her style of painting, in her favourite jug, which will make an appearance shortly!

Sandra was working on a very strong graphite landscape, using 2B-14B pencils, ideally suited to this medium - yes,  14B pencils are now available in all good art shops ( Bungay) 

Hannah used scraps of Gelli printed paper to make a collage of Birch tree trunks against a background of fallen maple leaves, another very effective technique.and ideal for this subject.

Harriet was working on a composition using a favourite photograph of a tidal landscape.

​Jane used pencil in her delicate small sketches of mini beasties.

Barry worked on an interesting composition of Vultures ( not the collective noun!) now an endangered species. He used Neo colour water soluble crayons which he often works with enjoying the effect that adding water produces ‘an explosion of colour’

​Sue worked on her drawings of a Hyacinth in delicate watercolour.

​Jenny began a watercolour painting of the buildings in Diss with St Nicholas church tower in the background.

And finally, a lovely coloured pencil drawing from Carolyn  of a travelling alarm clock, that she was given as a wedding present. Still working perfectly, and a lovely reminder too. 

A few of you will remember Vi Wilmshurst, who died on Saturday after a short illness.
Vi was my next door neighbour when I lived in Palgrave and she introduced me to Eye Arts Guild.
She was an active member of the guild, very proud of it, and keen that I join. She maintained an active interest in art all through her life, and encouraged others , me included to do the same. 
I will miss her.
Sally



And finally…

*The committee need to know how many members will be participating in the Eye Open Gardens exhibition in June . 
entries are to be A4 size portrait or landscape, and for a unified presentation, all to be framed in black frames, available through EAG , initially one entry per member. ( this may change depending on numbers)
please fill in the ‘expression of interest’ form at the next EAG session so that we know how many frames to order.

There will also be an opportunity for members to exhibit at The Bank for a month in June.

​Next weeks blogger is Hannah.


​Sally

Jenny made a splendid still life which looked clean and also had  lovely fresh flowers. She also patiently sat and stood to give us interesting poses. We welcomed a new member Jane, who joined the still life people and also the showing of members work at the end.

Ian J has been very productive today by producing five sketches one being in ink

Sally L decided to do the portraits today, using charcoal and ink and made highlights with a rubber

Sally P did several pen and ink drawings that had her unique style and a watercolour of the still life which had a very realistic tray.

Lesley made two stunning pastel pictures of the flowers, the background really makes the pastels pop

Sally T, just like Ian produced a good many sketches 

Sue tackled the still life using pencil, grapes and the lovely roses and Jane our new member copied the bottle and glasses and made a detailed study of the roses which is a excellent start.

Josie made superb mixed media bold pieces and Jackie captured the beautiful light with her wonderful composition

A selection of Avril's. not a good likeness this week 

 Angela's drawing from last Thursday (sorry I forgot to take it last week) and one sent by email. The last one one progressing from this morning.

Dianna had to leave early, but I managed to get a photo of her two vibrant watercolours

Frances had to leave early and sent these by email, very good compositions and delicate works 

Next weeks blogger is Sally

Maggie-Anne came dressed for the outside weather in her first pose this morning!  For some reason it was quite cold in the room - it seems to be either too hot or too cold - but maybe that's just how we come dressed. We also welcomed a new member, Graham, who joined the portraitists.  Let's hope he enjoyed his first time. 
The hyacinth in the still life was turned repeatedly to ensure that an eventual position was found to suit as many members as wanted to include it.  The scent that wafted from it at intervals during the morning was heavenly. 
I had to go very early, so thank you to Avril, who provided me with the photos and comments from the end of the morning [Hannah].

But first, Angela's pics from the workshop Frances gave last week on hagstones.  She has worked further on the coloured one after the event.

Here are the portraits from this morning...
First Elizabeth's (2), Ian J's and Jackie's

Next Penny's, and new member Graham's...

Finally Avril's crop from this morning.

My effort was not either good or finished, as I left too early. 
In two weeks time there is a morning-only workshop for working towards our exhibitions in the summer. The first exhibition, at Eye Town Hall, is for A4 sized framed pictures for which frames can be bought for £10. The second is at the Bank for the whole of June. Come and use the time to prepare your entry for either.  Even if you are not taking part, come, and use the time for your own project.
Next week's blogger is Avril.  Please send contributions to her.

Frances gave an interesting day today and was kind enough to explain her session.

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​I have collected hagstones for year and thought it would be fun to use them as a theme today.

The idea was to first of all make a detailed study in pencil of your stone and then move on to being more adventurous using a variety of media. Charcoal, ink, watercolour, wax resist, acrylic, monoprint.
As we used these media we could be less reliant on being totally accurate in our representation and consider textures and shapes.
The final idea was to produce a design using some of these images and possibly move into a more abstract composition.

Barry's, Ians and Laurens hagstones

Penny's lively stones with nice shading

The first two are Sally L's and the next three Sally P's which both have wonderful use of colour and texture

Josie's bright bold creations and Jackie's dainty detailed work with descriptions

Ian Jones's liner work and one that looks like a women's face with wirey hair

Lesley's realistic stones and ones using acrylic and  effective monoprints 

Harriet has produced a varied selection, one looks like a cows head and another resembles cave drawings.

Avril was pleased with her work today, which seemed clean and fun

Next weeks blogger is Hannah..
​Please fill in and return your Summer Sessions Questionnaire. 

Acrylic paints with limited palette.

As an artist, Tamsin is inspired by Suffolk landscapes and her paintings include both the rich texture of wild flowers and grasses, as well as some very interesting skies. Below are two examples from her webpage, where more of her work can be found at tamsinlittleart.com

Tamsin uses acrylics, she finds that it is a veratile medium which she can add layers and blend to create the effects she desires.
She works with a limited palette using the following colours:
Paynes Grey, Cadium Yellow (medium hue), Dioxazine Purple, Golden Ochre, Titanium White.
She also adds one other colour, for example indigo blue.
First we mixed the colours, see Tamsin's examples below, the first using Paynes Grey and the second using Indigo instead. We all had a go at mixing these colours, Frances went 'off piste' with hers, and produced a lovely abstract image, see below as well

Tamsin did a short demonstate, showing how to produce grasses blowing in the wind. Then we all set about choosing an image from photos - to be used to inspire, not to reproduce. Here are Tamsin's paintings, the first showing how to use acrylic inks to get an impression of vegetation and the second showing grasses at the edge of a field.

We all enjoyed the workshops and here is the result of our work. First examples showing paintings done by Frances, Ian C, Jackie, Judith, Laurens, and Lesley.

Then we have paintings done by Ian J, Maggie-Anne, Penny, Sally P, Jenny and Richard

Here are pictures from Josie, and a second one from Lesley done at the end, and then mine

Next week's blogger is Avril

The first of today’s portraits are from Sandra

​and then three portraits from Ian Jones.

​Three from Frances.

​A gallery of portraits from Penny!

​and from Avril

​The still life table scenario

​First a view from one side of the display from Jackie, sorry Jackie this photo doesn’t do your picture justice, and Josie

​Sally P and Joanna were on the opposite side of the table

Jenny, Frances and I had a view from one end.

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And Lesley and Diana were at the other end of the table, Lesley’s pastel painting on a colourful background gives a very festive feel, and Diana brought a picture of a colourful still life and added some objects from the table in her own inimitable style.

Ian C and Maggie Ann were both focusing on birds.

Ian’s soulful thrush, and Maggie Ann’s chicken which has I notice featured in several other
​pictures,- I blame the photographer .

and finally…

​A New Year’s Resolution…check your gallery page, is there anything you would like to add or remove? Please send extras to Hannah.
if you haven’t yet got a gallery page please send some ( half a dozen) representative photos of your work along with a short ‘blurb’ to Hannah for inclusion.

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• ​slight change to the workshop day on January 22 nd.
  Frances will be using ‘Hag Stones’ as a starting point for exploring shape and texture in mixed media. Bring Acrylics, pastels, pens, inks etc -Frances will provide the stones!
  
• DETAILS OF WHAT THIS ENTAILS AND WHAT TO BRING NOW ON STOP PRESS
  
• a programme change. Maggie Ann Jan 29th    Sandra March 6th
• BREAKING NEWS - the next Chairman’s Project is ‘Colourful’ 
  

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• Next week’s blogger is Harriet
  

Sally

We had our Christmas party today and about 24 members were welcomed with mulled wine and a mince pie - although coffee was on offer too. After a lot of chatting and food arranging, the committee had planned some games. There were 4 tables and it became quite competitive. The first game was Guess The Words with vowels missing and some were harder than others, they were all art related. Here are some examples: CRYLC; JNVNYCK; CRVGG;DVDHCKNY; HNRMTSS
You can find the answers at the bottom of the page.

Then Hannah set up a quiz using her laptop and the screen, showing small sections of paintings and we had to guess either the name of the artist and/or the name of the picture. See above, answers again at the bottom of the page.

Our final game was Pictionary where one team member had to draw something and the others had to guess what it was, all food related, the winner of each round was the first table to get it correct. 

Then after a quick break and before we all enjoyed the buffet, it was time to show Chairman's project, subject: Joyful. We saw Maggie-Anne's first - a picture of her lovely dogs; followed by Sally P's interesting collage, showing all the things in her life that she feels joyful about:

Next we have Lesley's picture of her most recent trip away, she went to Sandringham and enjoyed both the weather and the scenery. This is followed, in great contrast, with Richard's Picasso styled painting, plus he sang a song to go with it. And then there is Sue's lovely drawing showing plants from different seasons. Penny  has done a fine image of Koala Bears, plus a sweet portrain of a child. Angela acknowleged that she didn't really do Joyful as her paintings are quite dark, but she does find her grandchild falling asleep very joyful.

Ian C plans to do a large painting of his daughters, but he finds it is hard to get them all together at once, so he is doing a series of studies first.  Owls are Sandra's selection of Joyful and here is her image showing a barn owl in flight. Sally T decided to study Willam Blake's Songs of Innocent and use his drawing as inspiraction. Judith chose her lovely dog as an example of joyful - her dog running on the beach, she is also doing a study, in this case a drawing, which she will work into a painting.

Hannah also selected her granddaughters as being joyful, she was inspired by her trip to Winterton-on-Sea where there is a sandy beach and seals at one end, but she found another picture to inspire her, of the grandchild on the swing. Her painting is in progress, and is rather wet, being done with oils so she took a picture of it. 
Following Hannah is Dianne's pictures, one of calligrahy which she enjoyed teaching and the other is a chairman's project from many years ago. She also says she enjoys sitting in the sunshine and, but this is contentment, rather than joyful.

More examples of grandchildren being joyful, first Ian J's grandchild fishing and then Josie's grandchild on a trampoline. Bee has done a lovely choir of cats singing.  Avril's joyfulness is her memories of a course she did: Access to Art, at Malvern College, which she said was fantastic. She showed her sketch book / ideas book that she did there, and here is the finally image plus an object she made. Following on from that is Sally L's lovely picture, she says: my eldest son and his partner Sarah got married secretly a few days before flying out to live in Dubai last year. They didn’t tell me until the day before, so naturally I wasn’t there, but I bought myself a small bottle of champagne and in order not to consume it too quickly I sketched it after each mouthful. I was quite overcome with joy! 
And then there is mine, Snowdrops;  The promise of Spring.

ANSWERS 1) IF YOU HAVENT ALREADY GUESSED ACRYLC; JAN VAN EYCK; CARAVAGGIO; DAVID HOCKNEY; HENRI MATISSE
2) Van Gogh, Starry Night; David Hockney, A Bigger Splash; Picaso, Weeping Woman.

Happy Christmas to everyone
See you next year on the 8th January 2026

Eighteen of us at the Bowls Club this morning, a good turnout, and although it was dull and drizzly outside, indoors it was all things festive, all manner of Christmas decorations baubles Santas, festive greenery and more gold pine cones that you could shake a stick at.
Hannah was our model clad in a glorious cardigan from her own personal winter collection, colourful and cosy.

​First the portraits
​we all agreed that  Ian J has taken years off Hannah at a stroke with this portrait on Marker pen paper using alcohol inks. Penny produced two good likenesses in pencil.
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Jackie was using a new sketch book, and was a bit cross to discover that her pencil underdrawing had bled into the watercolour used on top.Two portraits from Sally T, the second she explained became rather dominated by Hannah’s cheek.

​on the still life table, Harriet has included an eclectic selection of the Yuletide objects on display, plenty to challenge us here with the baubles and the tinsel.
​ Maggie Ann, concentrated on the billiard balls in pastel, a difficult technical challenge.

Two strong colourful pastel compositions first from Lesley really effective on a red background, and then from Sally P, again some difficult subjects, the tinsel and baubles.

​and Josie’s baubles look good enough to eat! in contrast Penny’s delicate vignettes would make perfect Christmas cards.

Sue completed two beautifully delicate drawings of the winter foliage on the table.

and three from Avril,a pencil sketch of part of the table, baubles in colour, and one of Avril’s favourite subjects I think, the  quirkier elements.

And finally a sketch from Angela, I think it should be entitled ‘the work of a model’

Working independently this week
Diana finishing a painting featuring some luscious beetroot that she began last week, and Ian C working in pastel, Southwold beach huts, and a bird (thrush?) caught momentarily distracted by…

Richard joined us again, working on his ‘two hour Picasso’ a lovely balanced composition of a cup, a jug and a spoon, I think quite well set off by the geometry of the brick wall.

Carolyn sent in this coloured pencil drawing of two tomatoes, almost echoing the baubles on our table this week 

and Frances has been working on her Lino prints, she has cut all the plates, and now has to ink them up for the reveal!

finally this touching sketch from Angela in preparation for her Chairman’s project ​JOYFUL to be presented at the Christmas party next week.

and finally​

• our Christmas party next week, bring a plate and your ‘Joyful ‘ picture.
• information including equipment needed for the Acrylics workshop is available on the ‘Stop Press section of this website.
• if you would like to send a Christmas message to fellow members  Hannah has created a Christmas Greetings page as part of the Messages from Members menu. Please send your messages to Hannah.
• Next week’s queen of the blog is Harriet, please send contributions to her.

​Sally

Elaine took us back to summer with a still life laid out for tea in the garden, with fairy cakes, and even bubbly!  Come to think of it, the weather today was considerably warmer than of late, but I think we would still have had to shelter in a conservatory...
It was a busy morning today, with 21 members in attendance, and we had to stop early because of a function in the Bowls Club.  The air of concentration could almost be heard it was so dense.  Elaine also modelled for the portraitists.  And there were a number of members working on their own projects today.

So here are the first batch of works - the first from Sally P, and the second shows two of her drawings using not-looking at the paper, not lifting the pen, techniques. Next Harriet gives us the other side of the still life, and finally Laurens tackled both portrait and still life.

Next Lesley's hydrangeas the first she described as 'experimental', the second with a wonderfully three dimensional feel, new member Sue's studies of the still life, Sally T's watercolour, and my iPad drawing - very unfinished! Using layers to rough out, and then add shading and definition.

Here are three vivid studies of the same component of the still life, respectively,Bea, Barry and Jennie

More members doing their own thing - Maggie-Anne, characterful cat and Josie's colourful hare.  The third is from Richard, great to see him after a long time, it will be interesting to see how this turns out!

Diana says, 'I started with a photo of beetroot and then combined old paintings in my head .'

Here are the portraits from this morning. First, Penny, then Ian J, and two from John...

And now, two from Jill and three from Avril.

Coming up - the Christmas party on 11th December.  If you haven't already added your name to the list of those who are coming, make sure you do so next week, and let us know what food you will be bringing, and whether you are bringing a guest.  The party is always good fun, and thanks to the members, the food is good.  There will be mince pies and mulled wine provided.
We will also be presenting our Chairman's Project work (reminder: the subject is 'Joyful'). 
For the benefit of new members, here are a few things you should know:
Have a look at some of the blog entries for the last week of April in previous years to see some of the work that has been shown in the past.
You don't have to have a finished work.  You can show us your sketches or an unfinished piece, and give us an idea of your intentions.
You can do something 3D if you like.
You can interpret the subject as broadly as you like.
You can bring something you have already made that fits the subject, that fills you with joy. And that thought might fill you with joy!
Stop Press has some details of changes to the Programme relating to the Acrylic Workshop planned for 15th January 2026.  Please have a look.
Sally L will be blogging next week. Send contributions to her.

Here at the Eye Bowls Club on a cold frosty morning, members of the Eye Art Guild met up and had a session of drawing and painting. John supplied the lovely still life including hydrangeas in two vases, some fatsia leaves, and some seed heads  plus two very attractive cushions that he had embroided.

John also posed and quite a few choose to draw him and he made them work hard with four different poses, they are all successful drawings although some said he was quite hard to draw especially the last one where there was quite a lot of foreshortening.

First we have Avril's colourful  drawings, I sneaked in an extra one, as she just started:

Then we have Angela's portrait, Jackie's four drawings and Jo's drawing of John:

Followed by four portraits from Penny and four from Sally P:

Then we have some images of the still life. First we have Angela's hydrangeas, charcoal and pastels; a lovely watercolour by Bee; Frances's two pictures of vases and hydrangeas; Jenny's flowers and part of the cushion; Jo's leaf, watercolour;  and Sandra's  loose drawing using pastels and Sue's drawing of leaves. Finally mine:

Ian and Gill did their own thing. First Ian, a country side scene done in pastels and inspired by National Trust images. Second is Gill's painting (unfinished) of a scene in Sicily where she has just been on holiday and the image showing her inspiration.

Next week's blogger is Hannah

A happy buzz today as members settled down to a great still life that Josie produced

The first two are from  Ian J who thought the Lilies were very colourful, followed by Jenny's lovely watercolour. First in second row is Sandra's fun piece, she used pastel and then rubbed it out and then intense blocks and rubbed that out for the background and continued on this way which produced a nice texture. Lesley also created texture copying a piece of wood from Hunstanton and the lilies stand out on the plain background. 

Harriet used ink, pastel and charcoal which made expressive still lifes. Joanna painted the lillies 
and the lovely pencil sketch of the hare as did Maggie-Anne.

Sally L made a fun cartoonish, her words not mine, dish that was challenging, and Sally P  tackled a tricky scene.

Josie gave us a run for our money with interesting poses

Sally P made three pencil sketches of Josie

Elizabeth had her own distinctive method of drawing Josie

The first two sketches are Sandra's which shows great shading and Jackie worked hard to get the correct proportions. 

Penny  concentrated hard to achieve these super charcoal drawings

Jolles was also busy sketching in his own individual style

I, Avril also had a job to keep up with Josies many poses.

Dianna sent these via email 

​Hannah sent this : Drawn with Procreate on my iPad.