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Thursday 24 March

24/3/2022

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Hello again.  What a tonic this beautiful spring weather is!  Inspiring if you want to paint, or just healing if you are beset by any of today’s many problems.  I hope lots of you have been able to get outside to enjoy it.
18 members at the session today.
​Hannah gave us two poses to draw today.  Sally, who took the photos, wonders how she managed to keep her arm up tor the hour!  Included is Sally's own drawing of Hannah. She says she arrived late and is leaving early to see the musical Chicago this afternoon. She adds that it comes under the heading of 'Art' so doesn't feel too guilty!


​Below are some of the other resulting portraits.
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John submitted two works, a nice charcoal sketch of Hannah and his first attempt at interpreting this photo of King George V's last visit to the East End - a very lively interpretation.
Frances's first her portrait of Hannah with pencil. She said the second done with Conté  was very quick because, like Sally, she had to leave early. 
Rachel had a problem sending her portrait of Les last week and it reached Hannah too late to be included.  So here it is now.
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​I can just picture Carolyn sitting in her lovely garden on a warm spring day drawing these beautiful daffodils.  She has used her Inktense pencils and applied some moisture to bring out more depth.
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This is Lesley’s take on Hannah’s still life, in watercolour.

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​Here is Harriet's picture for this week, and see below her attempt at textile work that she did with Avril.
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Diana today showed us in stages how she built up her watercolour painting - very helpful to see how others work.


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​Diana is also to thank for the last photo, of the whole room hard at work.
These are some updates on the TEXTILE COLLAGES from Lesley and Avril's workshop.
Lesley finished the fabric collage of Queen Charlotte Sound in New Zealand that she created as a demonstration piece for the workshop. She says, “It doesn’t look very different from the image I sent to you a fortnight ago, but I have stitched down the island and done some free machine embroidery to give the forested shore in the foreground some texture.”
Diana did a bit more work on her fabric from the workshop.
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This is an image from Harriet showing her attempt at textile drawing / embroidery that she did with Avril.

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Angela worked at home on her textile collage from 2 weeks ago and has now sent us her finished work.
She says she has been painting landscape and this one is from a sketch and the fabric collage at EAG. Here is the finished work:  “Always looking for a path”, Burthallan Lane overlooking St.Ives Bay in Cornwall.
​Angela has been really busy lately as she tells me that during lockdown she was drawing a model in Bristol via Zoom, with different poses on different days. This February an exhibition was held at a gallery in Bath for the artists’  completed works.  Angela showed three (herewith) and found it fascinating to meet the model face to face at the exhibition.
Finally about next week's session:  Josie will be doing a morning of CARDBOARD SCULPTURE  based around small tools and equipment like corkscrews. There won’t be a still life or model, but anyone who wants to bring their own work is welcome.  Items to bring:
​Cutting mat
Cardboard/cereal boxes

Scalpel
Scissors
Glue/pave/hot glue gun
Masking tape
Ruler, T-square
Acrylic paint, markers
Pencils
Postscript: I have been asked to include this notice
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