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
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.
Everyone enjoyed the day and what a productive bunch we were. Here is a selection
This week at the art group, Eric finished the Venice picture and we were joined by Hannah and Nieve on Thursday morning
This week Mary was painting a gorgeous picture on linen and then she went back to her Japanese lady
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.
A lovely group of ladies today most of whom brought their own spinning wheels
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
We were playing with colour this week, mixing, displacing colour by dropping in alcohol (gin worked really well), and water colour on a canvas
Jane was working on her scene in water colour and Dawn had finished hers
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 !
Jan and Eric were doing stunning work this week
Vivien had finished her first oil painting and Jackie was experimenting with water colour on a canvas
Alison joined us this week to do sketching and Anne started her long seascape in acrylic
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!
.. and the crafts this week – decoupage, finishing off a goose in papier maché and painting a lamp