Thursday 13th April with Sandra

We had a good crowd at this morning's session.  
It seems that more members are gravitating towards doing the still life these days than the models. 

Sandra was an excellent model and struck some really dramatic poses.  Below are some results.

Avril was, as she said, very productive today.  Ten portraits in all !  (Does she have any favourites?  And if so, which ones.)

I don't know how many Elizabeth and Jenny Burton completed.  I only captured what they did before the coffee break.  Jenny was using charcoal and making a very good job of it although she had not had much practice with this medium.  Last but not least are Frieda's contributions.

There was lots of choice on the still life table, though unsurprisingly daffodils predominated.   June, in spite of her painful shoulders managed two lovely watercolour still life paintings, featuring some of the many daffodils on show.

Lesley is being very negative about her work today, but there are some really good parts to it.  She says she is not sure she wants it to be published, and goes on, 'I tried painting from scratch without drawing, got lost in the negative space of Sandra’s wonderful daffodils and the way the necklaces were draped around the neck of her Cornish pitcher, so resorted to some emphasis with pen, then some loose daffodils. Usual story, they were done in about 5 minutes and are the best bits …..not that that’s saying much!'

Jane just says, 'Pencil again'.  But it's a brilliant study of the large pot of daffs on the still life table.   Make sure you click to enlarge it !

​Harriet has sent us two studies in blue and yellow/orange

Carolyn has continued with her theme of the garden and also drew daffodils, but in crayon.  As the crayons came out very light, she enhanced them slightly using the photo software on her Mac, so we are able to see them rather more clearly.

Sally P tells us she had a fun morning carrying on with her contour drawing and adding colour to the still life.  (Perhaps I should try that! N.)

Diana shows us her studio and tells us she is thinking about tidying up!  (Mmmm... there's always lots of that to do, in my experience. N.)

From Frances, the first one is a small sketch and the second larger version is watercolour, ink and some oil pastel.

A late addition from Ian who has been experimenting with the app MyBrushes Pro.  I couldn't get it to download satisfactorily yesterday, but am having another go this morning.
Wow .. it worked.  Well done, Ian, for giving this a go!

• During the coffee break, Lesley reminded us that the last meeting of the Winter Programme is on 27th April, when we have the results of the Chairman's Project.  The project this year is Elements so don't forget to complete your projects and bring them along for the Show and Tell session on the Thursday after next.  It will be  your opportunity to tell us what you did, how you did it, why ...... well, anything really that you want to say about your artwork.​

Next week it is Hannah's turn to do the blog, so please remember to send your work to her.  
I wish you all a very good week, hopefully a fine one.  Noreen