… et jeudi le 23 juillet

Some interesting work today. Anne’s painting is really taking shape, Eric was doing a bit of Degas, Jan was doing an abstract, Mary was painting on fabric and I was trying to capture a vibrant wave scene

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mardi crafts 21 Julliet

Lots of work in  preparation. Tuesday morning has become rather more of a community café – lots of chat and some lovely cake this week with our morning coffee or tea.

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life model le 20 juillet

Everyone enjoyed the day and what a productive bunch we were. Here is a selection

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mardi et jeudi le 14 et 15 juillet

This week at the art group, Eric finished the Venice picture and we were joined by Hannah and Nieve on Thursday morning

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mardi et jeudi jusqu’au 9 juillet

This week Mary was painting a gorgeous picture on linen and then she went back to her Japanese lady

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Eric was progressing with his painting of Venice and Anne with her coastal view, Jan was doing water colour and her mum was using coloured pencils. Hillary and Margaret were doing decoupage, I had finished the cows and started a sailing picture on some mdf.

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spinning day – filer la laine – le 6 juillet

A lovely group of ladies today most of whom brought their own spinning wheels

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mardi le 30 juin et jeudi le 2 juillet

This week there was a lot of preparing – pots and bowls and baskets – for decoupage next week – I think we were all feeling a little lethargic with the heat but it was lovely and cool in the barn. Some painting was done as well

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le 16 et 18 juin

We were playing with colour this week, mixing, displacing colour by dropping in alcohol (gin worked really well), and water colour on a canvas

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Jane was working on her scene in water colour and Dawn had finished hers

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We had a peaceful afternoon, I have almost finished my bowl of fruit, Anne was working on her long acrylic, Viv was experimenting with oil paints (no picture) and on the other table, John was making a door !

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mardi crafts et jeudi art le 9 & 11 juin

Jan and Eric were doing stunning work this week

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Vivien had finished her first oil painting and Jackie was experimenting with water colour on a canvas

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Alison joined us this week to do sketching and Anne started her long seascape in acrylic

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Diana started a moody painting from her sketch of a story from the writing group, Jane was using aquarelle pencils outside and I started a bowl of pears, one of my favourite subjects!

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.. and the crafts this week – decoupage, finishing off a goose in papier maché and painting a lamp

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portes ouvertes weekend – a very successful exhibition

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