February 12th Eye Bowls Club

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