| Sally L has supplied the photos for this week’s inspiration. Much food for thought … not sure how I’d tackle them. It will be interesting to see how others do. They are: Brooklyn Bridge, Tower Block Window Cleaners and Palma old town. |   
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 Sunset at Clevedon | Carolyn has sent in a lovely watercolour of a sunset at Clevedon. Needless to say, she is disappointed with it, but she shouldn’t be as the result is quite striking. I like the way the lights twinkle along the pier and in the building at the end. |
| Diana is disconcerted by the tidiness shown by Avril in her shoes photo. But it has inspired Diana to draw just one of six piles of shoes around her house which have accumulated - in spite of her thinking that lockdown would have enabled her to reduce the mess! But thank you, Diana, for an excellent drawing. She adds: I know where I go wrong, when I think I am tidying up I'm just moving and rearranging piles of clothes or shoes or whatever. |  A Mess of Shoes |
 Still Life, fruit | June combined still life in pastel with lunch. A beautiful representation in pastel, completed at The Bank's Wednesday morning meeting yesterday, before being scoffed. |
| I continued with my acrylic painting of last week, now finished. It was inspired by Diana’s excellent photo a couple of weeks ago of the Shropshire hills, in sunshine and cloud. Otherwise I've just been toying with ideas for the coming week. (Noreen) |  Shropshire Hills |
 | Avril thought she had better do one of her suggested pieces, using water soluble pencils - although she has not applied any water. She likes the sketchy feel - which was approved of by others on Zoom today. |
| From Frances we have first her fritillaries converted into acrylic on a 5"x5" block canvas, second a sketch of tulips she had in a vase and thirdly her Minsmere oil moving along from last week, "Now awaiting some Canada geese to appear." | |
 | Lesley tells us, this is still a work in progress; it’s the view across the Dove Valley from Park Lane in acrylic. She mentioned at the Zoom meeting her difficulty in indicating that the foreground land slopes away, then rises beyond the river - tricky. She has taken up Frances’s suggestion of looking at Sisley’s work to see how to improve the Spring trees…. |
| Jane says, "I’m sorry I couldn’t make the Zoom call today. I’m back to my old favourite of black ink drawing this week, still plenty to do on it. It’ll keep me occupied for a while yet." |  |
  | Sally L has sent us two fine pictures. The first is from Sally T's photo, which she's called "St George Displeased by Tulips"(!) and includes painting and collage, I believe. The second picture is of a wind battered selection from her garden, which has a sense of freedom about it I feel. |
| Finally, here are Harriet's two pictures: her blue iris is mixed media, coloured pencils and watercolour mostly), and the other, Waveney, is a sketch for an idea in oil paints. This is likely to be quite a challenge, she says. She added the birds without deciding what they were exactly, maybe geese. We look forward to seeing it. |   |
NOTICE: We had a discussion on Zoom this morning about using the blog during the Summer Programme. Firstly, do please keep sending us your pictures every Thursday. If you can get to the venue, we would very much appreciate it if you would each photograph your own work and send it to whoever is doing the blog, rather than have one person photographing everybody's at the end. If you are not at the venue, please just send us any work you recently completed. For inspiration for those not out with the group, a photograph of the location will be posted on the blog for you to work on - if you so wish - for the following week.
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