Eye Arts Guild November 2nd

A wet and windy day but some 12 intrepid members braved the forecast primed their creative juices and headed for the bowls club. Liz had set up a harvest themed still life, and Jackie was appropriately modelling a poppy themed outfit.

this is Carolyns lovely delicate picture of ‘winter warmers’ difficult to capture the shading in soft textiles like socks, but she has succeeded.

a beautiful pencil drawing of a jug and fruit from Jane, very delicate and precise shading to indicate the different tones and textures..

Avril was held up by the weather, but sent this powerful image ​from her sketch book taken from a book ‘Cours de Session’ which she says has lots of images to copy.

Frances has sent a still life COMPOSITION USING graphic pens and charcoal, and a portrait of Jackie, again in pencil and very effective use of art graphic pens for the background.

A quick sketch and an acrylic still life from Lesley beautiful bold colours perfectly set off by the dark background

Two pictures from Harriet, both in pastel and charcoal? She says that she found the study of the tricky angle of Jackie’s hands very difficult and i can see why, but i can also see exactly how the hand was placed, well observed.

From Sally P .Her section of the still life set-up first drawn as a blind contour, which is very impressive, the objects are all clearly defined and RECOGNISABLE.
​she says that she has used a bit of artistic licence in her pastel still life, well why not?

And finally this is my contribution ‘Cornflowers’ using mixed media and especially a new tube of acrylic ‘light violet blue’ which is my current favourite.

Some final images from this week, i apologise for not knowing the artists names, and hope that i have included you all.

Stop Press  please check the Stop Press section of the website for a list of materials for Lesley’s workshop next week