Still confined

Tuesday 9th February 2021 – Well, the weeks seem to be passing quickly and I can see that Spring is trying to present itself with daffs in the garden, but we are still confined, not on full lockdown like the UK as we can see up to 6 people in our houses but restaurants and bars are closed. I have been busy doing a lot of needle felting, the results of which I cannot reveal as I am being very forward thinking and preparing for next Christmas. However here are a few other things I have been up to.

A rag rug made with odd lengths of fabric I already had

A pair of dungarees or salopette in French. I loved making these and will be doing more
A pencil drawing of my lovely Mum when she was a young lady. I intended to do a painting and this is on very thick watercolour paper. I am not sure how to tackle it without losing the pencil marks
Jenny G is the only person to send me their creations so far this year. This is a lovey watercolour

Happy New Year for 2021

As most people are saying, let’s hope this year will be a better one. As you can imagine, there has not been very much activity at Jeudi Art for most of the year. But some of us have been busy doing projects at home.

Jan did this wonderful pastiche of Velasquez’s ‘ Las Meninas’ substituting members of her family
Michelle’s advent calendar

Jenny G did this advent calendar for her mum

Viv’s kitten mat

A Monet-esque painting by Steve

Another couple from Jenny G

A couple of Christmassy ones by me
And some needle felting

A personal touch – some dressmaking and a wardrobe

some of the other things we have been doing with our time

Some journal work

I always mean to do more of this sort of thing. Only two pages but inspired by the weather

and here is a variety of work by the regulars. The numbers are down from usual but that’s perfectly fine as I like to keep people spaced out in these strange times – in the distancing sense.

Some weird and wonderful work

I am always heartened by Jenny and Janet who come in on a Tuesday morning with so much enthusiasm. The other week Jenny decided that she wanted to do some abstract featuring holes

and then got carried away with stripes

Janet was carrying on with the bird theme

Denise and Frances always do delicate work but then Denise decided to do a big abstract of some rosehips

and here are some of her pears

Daniel is doing a series of botanical flower water colours

Paintings revisited

I have so many canvases stuck in the cupboard that I’m not happy with, so recently I have been revisiting them and made completely different paintings – I have been using water-soluble oil paints to go over acrylic work, even if some of them have been varnished, it seems to work.

        We’re back online

        Sorry for the pause but we have been having a bit of trouble posting lately. So, we have quite a lot to catch up on. The attendance is not up to what it was before all this craziness but nevertheless the output has been steady. Janet and Jenny have been coming regularly and their enthusiasm is catching. Here is some of their work

          Some other work

          we’re still going strong

          Each Tuesday Jenny and Janet have been trying different subjects – they are both beginners and have made the most wonderful progress. Here are some cats, seed heads in jam jars and trees plus a hare a sunflower and the odd flower plus my efforts whilst doing the instruction – it has been a challenge for me too

          keeping our distance

          We have now had two weeks of Jeudi Art and we have also welcomed the poetry group to meet upstairs in the barn. It has worked really well so far. Nobody has huddled together and we have respected the use of sanitiser – not everyone has ventured back so it has been a relatively quiet start but I think this is preferable for the comfort of all.

          we did some water colour line wash
          some of Daniel’s paintings

          some moody paintings by me and – wait for it – a self portrait