Spring Art Challenge – Connections – any medium and our choice of subject matter.
Barbara Dressler won over everyone’s hearts with her lovely painting of her grandson connecting with a monkey through their eyes.
Mixed Media Workshop with Janice Hofman
Janice brought stencils, stamps, PAPER and lots and lots of collage items. Most of us used her materials and had great fun composing a variety of compositions.
Rich Williams Prize Contest
Liz Astill was the final winner in a highly contested vote of many excellent paintings from his workshop. There was a 4 way tie between 2, 5, 10 and 12; then a 3 way tie between 5, 10 and 12 and finally a tie between Baerbel Dressler and Liz…..
Rich Williams Workshop on Quilted Trees
Rich handed out a couple of small sample sketches for us to use or we could use one of the three he provided or our own. Click for more:
Full Figure Sketching Workshop
Rosina, Susan and Beth volunteered to pose for a session of quick figure sketching.
Brenda Pon was the well deserved winner of the winter Mixed Media Challenge.
It was to produce a mixed media artwork with a restricted palette of no more than 3 colours.
Library Dispersion
Due to lack of storage space, the age of many books and the ease of research on the internet, we decided to disperse with our many library books. We did this through a silent auction, which raised $164 for our group. We followed this by an all out “take what you want”, then donations to […]
Pastel Still Life Workshop with Dan Gray along with a bonus, full portrait of Flo.
Mixed Media Demo by Vida Newington….
with contributions by Brenda Pon – a semi abstract on the subject of “Autumn“. The base was a gridded soft wash of acrylic using a restricted palette of complimentary colours. Imposed on this were layers of collage, printing and washes of ink. The drawings were done in acrylic ink. Some areas were textured with acrylic […]
Trees in Abstract Workshop with Caroline Morrison – with class results….
