Thursday 16th February

There was a good crowd at the EAG session this morning, about twenty I’d say.  Some were working on portraits of Hannah, some were doing their own thing and some were picking their way through Hannah’s objects for the still life.  This had a craft theme, with a sewing box, materials, wool, and various objects created by Hannah and others. Here are some of the still life set up in closer detail.

Here is Hannah, followed by some of the portraits.

Avril has divided her time between the model and the still life. Here are her portraits. “Not the best” she says, being typically modest.  But practice makes perfect and you can see that here.
I like the portrayal of the cute little mouse in the still life..

First this is Elizabeth’s rendering of Hannah, in her recognisable style. Next, Frieda had two tries at the portrait, the first in pastel - feeling her way - and the second in colour washes.

Sally P decided to try another seascape following up from last week workshop. This is work in progress.
The second is a play with some water soluble pens that she picked up from a supermarket this week, finding that some worked better than others! 

Diana calls this "hard work".  Two stages , the second with her view of the layout.

"So much choice" says Jackie. "But I decided to spend half the session on still life, the second half drawing Hannah who was crocheting at a furious rate using jewel coloured wools."  Thanks to Jackie for the photo of Hannah with the crochet work (above), as well as for sending us a stage in Les Bragg's painting of a hare.

John has tackled two different poses of Hannah.

Another portrait, this time from Jane.   Hannah is obviously concentrating hard on her crochet work.  (Not tatting, John, see the crochet hook, clearly drawn by Jane.)

Carolyn has used an antique 1848 sewing box as the subject for her still life drawing this week, using Inktense pencils with added water. Says she has struggled to get the perspective right. (I thinks she has done pretty well, perhaps better with the lid than the top of the box itself. N.)

Richard has provided us with a drawing done earlier.
​He also offered members lots of freebies - brushes and other implements he no longer has any use for.  As Sally L says below, "Thanks Richard!"

Sally L gives us 
​1 Wet in wet pen and wash
2 Indian ink applied with a ‘freebie’ from the selection that Richard had to give away. I think it is some kind of wooden clay modelling tool with a spatula type end. It held the ink for a surprisingly long time, and made some lovely marks. Thanks Richard.

These are from Lesley  "The top one is the acrylic piece posted on the blog earlier. I’ve done some work to the sky and foreground field to the view across the fields to Eye and added the church. The second piece also acrylic, is a slightly different view. I’m reasonably happy with the mood portrayed (cold frosty morning) but I am struggling with finding something  fine enough to do foreground trees. Or I could just leave them out!"

Another set of pieces from the still life, from Frances. She says, "first small sketch, second larger bolder version and then third smaller sketch again with me actually trying to be delicate!!!"

Following last week's workshop, Sally P received a link to her YouTube slide show.  You can find this by going to Messages or click here.
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Emily is in charge of the Model and Still Life next week and Hannah wil be doing the blog, so please all send your artwork to Hannah.  And remember to ask someone else to photograph your piece and send it in, if you can’t do that yourself.  We’d really like to see 100% of work done put on the blog.
Till next time, Cheers, Noreen.