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DURING THIS PERIOD OF ISOLATION SOME OF US HAVE DECIDED TO KEEP A SKETCHBOOK OF DAILY OR FREQUENT SKETCHES WHICH SUM UP WHAT WILL BECOME A HISTORIC TIME.
WEEKLY ZOOM MEETINGS HAVE BEEN HELD AND WHEN THE WEATHER AND ISOLATION GUIDANCE ALLOWS WE HAVE PAINTED OUTDOORS
WEEKLY ZOOM MEETINGS HAVE BEEN HELD AND WHEN THE WEATHER AND ISOLATION GUIDANCE ALLOWS WE HAVE PAINTED OUTDOORS
The following programme is what had been planned but did not happen
but on 16th June we painted at Wallingford, see the gallery.
23rd June at Shiplake Church and the river below arranged by Edward, see the gallery.
7 April Self Portrait Any medium, a self portrait. Get away from using photographs or copying from artwork as a reference. This session is about looking into a mirror and creating a self portrait. You have to decide where to sit to get the lighting effect you want on your face and what and where to put the darks and the lights. It should be a difficult session needing constant comparison where each line or mark has been placed and how it relates to every other part of the portrait as you go along.
but on 16th June we painted at Wallingford, see the gallery.
23rd June at Shiplake Church and the river below arranged by Edward, see the gallery.
7 April Self Portrait Any medium, a self portrait. Get away from using photographs or copying from artwork as a reference. This session is about looking into a mirror and creating a self portrait. You have to decide where to sit to get the lighting effect you want on your face and what and where to put the darks and the lights. It should be a difficult session needing constant comparison where each line or mark has been placed and how it relates to every other part of the portrait as you go along.
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14 April Inspired by a poem A work inspired either by the poem Edward supplied or by any poem, verse or text of your choice. See www.poemhunter.com for ideas. Or Dylan Thomas
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea. The houses are blind as moles (though moles see fine to-night in the snouting, velvet dingles) or blind as Captain Cat there in the muffled middle by the pump and the town clock, the shops in mourning, the Welfare Hall in widows' weeds. And all the people of the lulled and dumbfound town are sleeping now. |
21 April Sketch book entries from this week. Show and tell the best sketch so far from your Lockdown Collection to date. Pen and wash, pencil, tombow, watercolour, whatever medium suits your subject, try them all and include notes where much as one might with a diary.
Sketches from wherever you are allowed to wander or peer at.
28 April Sketch Book again, Room interior or corner of the garden. Buildings, sheds, greenhouses, neighbours trampolining, the ordinary and mundane can be interesting after a while.
Sketches from wherever you are allowed to wander or peer at.
28 April Sketch Book again, Room interior or corner of the garden. Buildings, sheds, greenhouses, neighbours trampolining, the ordinary and mundane can be interesting after a while.
5 May In the classic early style of a London Transport or Railway Poster using limited colour, flat tone and dated fashion in decor, design and colour. Best to avoid any text in this exercise. Let the artwork tell the story.
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19 May Loose treatment of flowers - watercolour or and medium to suit. Just look at the work of Shirley Trevena. |
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26 May Still Life with food Onions, Aubergines, Oranges, anything to make an interesting composition.
2 Jun To be decided
9 Jun To be decided
16 Jun To be decided
23 Jun To be decided
July To be decided
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July To be decided
July To be decided |
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Light to Dark This weeks session is about emphasising the tonal qualities on light sides and dark sides or top/ bottoms of compositions. This adds drama and emphasises some areas and fades other areas. Steve Scott Young is one artist who is skilled in using this approach. Any medium any subject with wide tonal range potential. (The image above is watercolour.) |
Anything other than a brush session Use your imagination to do something different but without brushes. So scissors, glue, sticks, fingers, credit cards, fabric, metal, objet trouvé,
photographs, bus tickets, pages from books for example. Ask yourself, does my work say something, is it a new idea, does it hold the attention and interest of the observer. |
