this term there are subtle differences between our various classes, and it seems to keep me busier than usual to keep up, but at last here is an update...Monday morning sees us paying homage to Beryl Cook ( courtesy of Christine G )at the moment, (amongst other things) as part of a general interest in portraits, and how to portray them. I will post the pics up here when they are finished.
You will see here a final blast from last term's Shirley Trevena inspired water colour work
the photo doesn't do the work justice, photos seldom do, but you can see the impact and dynamism of this style and approach. There will be more to come from the Marsham Tuesday group who are now embarking on this same water colour journey that the rest of you made last term, when they were busy oil painting. You might notice that every inch is important in these paintings, a hugely different outcome from a more traditional format featuring a vase, flowers and a lot of white paper!
The new Portrait group, (slightly longer timescale of three hours as against our usual two and a half) is also going really well, we have a sitter every week, and I have volunteer models, lured perhaps by the token £10 payment and the offer of ad-lib tea and biscuits, lined up for the remainder of the term. The experience of working from a real model is so valuable, interesting, challenging and enjoyable. I am really grateful to the models who so kindly give up their afternoons for us.
I have instigated a different pace to each lesson so far, see some examples and the artists at work here in pastel. Oil paint next!
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