Christmas Party 2023
We had a good turnout to meet, chat, eat amd have fun with a few games run by Liz. We exchanged handmade Christmas cards and took part in a joint acrylic painting organized by Laurie. And, keeping with the real Christmas Spirit, Marilyn arranged to have us donate a number of gifts for Haven House.
Our Self Portrait Challenge turned out to be quite popular.
With 15 entries, it proved difficult to pick a winner however, Laurie Zuvich garnered the most votes to win. Congratulations, Laurie!
Watercolour Christmas Cards –
Patty had us create a snow scene with sheep from a youtube tutorial by Karen Rice; Rosina helped us do a light bulb glitter card.
Critique by Vida
Usually, once a month, one of our members gives a critique on any paintings that are submitted. One per person is allowed. They discuss an artwork in four ways, through description, analysis, interpretation, and evaluation.
Janice Evans workshop in watercolour entitled “Painting loose and loving it”.
After a thorough discussion of materials and the process that she uses in plein air, Janice gave a short demonstration of mark making and how to use our imagination in creating a scene without using a photograph. She gave individual attention to each artist and followed up with ideas for cropping and matting and a […]
Mark making youtube workshop by Jennine Close
Very ably presented by Patty McRory.
Vi Wawrykow was the winner of the summer sketchbook challenge,
which was to use at least three pre-prepared pages when working outside.
Plein Air Summer 2023
A kick in the creative with Joanne Barwise
She led us step by step in being inspired by the great painters before us. We did a page of asemic writing to loosen up, turned it over and copied the colours and lines of a famous painting. This was eventually turned into a small card. We still had time to do a finished painting […]
Painting a bird with Judith Madsen
The idea was to create feathers using a palette knife to show the black canvas below.