Watercolour Demo

We had the delight of being given a demo on watercolours by a lovely local (ish) artist, Judy Bell. Over thirty of us turned out to watch in hushed silence as Judy went from a blank page to finished watercolour in less than two hours. Absolutely fascinating to see what looked like a bland scrappy wash of colour being transformed layer by layer into a wonderful three dimensional textural landscape. Judy hopped from foot to foot, left to right to ensure her whole audience could see her paint and with a sense of humour she answered all our questions. I'm sure everyone will agree that it was another fantastic evening and extremely nice relaxing way to spend a Wednesday evening.

Art Cube Materials List

For those coming to the workshop I'm heading at the next meet, here's the materials list....

Acrylic paints
Sheet of polystyrene approx A5, eg a pizza base, packaging etc, polystyrene plate
Felt tip pen
Blunt pencil
6 sheets thin A4 paper plus spares (patterned or white)
Glue Stick


HTH

Paul

Acrylics Demo with David Newcombe

Another fantastic evening, this time in the presence of a very talented local artist David Newcombe. Not only did he share tips and techniques on acrylic painting, especially fuzzying around edges behind your focal point, he delivered it all in a wonderfully laid back, comedic style. He was both entertaining and instructive which is a rarity not to go unnoticed. With exhibitions on people's minds (Marple Art Group was having a hanging - go see - Sat/Sun at the Methodist Church, Marple), David looked at us all sternly and informed us to be careful in our selection of framing. Good paintings have lost sales by poor quality frames!!! I for one, look forward to seeing David give us a demonstration again. Brilliant!

Bleach Painting

Oops it's been a while since I last posted. My apologies. Anyway, back to last Wednesday when we were treated to a demo by artist, Angela Oswald. The first half of the evening we gathered around her table and watched a variety of techniques using ink and bleach. We then set to work, having a go ourselves and what fantastic results were achieved in such a short time. I didn't try it out myself but looking around at everyone's work, it was stunning. Such different results were achieved. The bleach can be unpredictable, depending on the paper, the temperature, the brand. It was absolutely fascinating and Angela was so passionate and enthusiastic, it rubbed off on us all. Such a relaxing, fun night of experiments and creativity.

Gustav Klimpt

On Wednesday, we were treated to a talk on Gustav Glimpt, given by the brilliant Art Historian, Michael Howard. We've previously sat in awe at his lecture on LS Lowry about whom we all had at least some knowledge. This time around, we didn't know as much so it made it all the more fascinating to hear about the artist, his works and the world around him which inspired his pieces. Michael is an engaging speaker and I personally could listen to him talk about art and artists each and every week. I look forward to attending any further evenings he can spare time for.

Winner

Okay I've been onto the Random website and typed in the number six (for how many comments were left) and that I wanted a single number generated. And the number was.....1.

So our lucky winner for the £20 voucher is Martyn. Congratulations! It will be presented to you at the next meeting.

Happy New Year everyone. Wishing you a creative 2009.