7.45 – 10.00pm
“Landscape”. We start the new season with Kevin Chapman, a longtime favourite of ours. Kevin paints in most mediums but tonight he will be using watercolour.
2.00–5.00pm
“Landscape”. Freda Anderson will be leading today's workshop which follows on from last night's subject. Please bring your own reference photo.
2.00–5.00pm
“Objects from the Beach”. Marcia Hughes leads this workshop and we will be painting in watercolour. Marcia will be bringing found objects for us to paint but please feel free to bring any of your own – shells, seaweed,driftwood, rope etc – as well.
7.45–10.00pm
“Interior Scene”. Another popular artist, Roger Dellar will be taking us through the stages of producing an interior scene using oils.
2.00–5.00pm
“Interior Scene”. Joan Steel will be giving us her take on an interior scene using just black and white oils. You of course can use what colours and what medium you like.
2.00–5.00pm
“Exploring Colour”. Ella Hayward returns to show us how colour works in a composition. The aim of this workshop is to step away from realisitic colour palettes and use the complementary colour schemes of Fauvist artists such as Matisse. Any medium. Please bring an image to work from (it can be a landscape portrait or whatever you like) or still life. Get ready to reinvent your understanding of colour!
7.45–10pm
“Drawing the Body”. Using a live model Malcolm West will show us the processes required to achieve a successful body likeness.
2.00–5.00pm
Today we put into practice what we learnt last night. We normally have a selection of 15 minute poses with a longer one to end the session.
7.45–10.00pm
“Landscape”. Tonight Ronnie Ireland will be painting a landscape using some of the acrylic techniques he showed us in his highly successful demo last year.
2.00–5.00pm
“Landscape”. Ronnie returns to help us put into practice what he demonstrated last night. Acrylic.
2.00–5.00pm
“Watercolour and Pen”. Marcia Hughes is going to demonstrate painting with watercolour and enhancing the work with a fine waterproof pen (Staedtler or similar) or pencil. As well as creating new works, you can bring along paintings which you don't feel have “worked” and Marcia will show you how to save them. Or you can paint a still life of flowers if you prefer.
7.45–10.00pm
“Still Life with Flowers”. Tonight Freda Anderson will be showing us how to compose a successful still life using pastels.
2.00–5.00pm
“Still Life with Flowers”. Freda returns to take us through the pastel processes she demonstrated last night.
2.00–5.00pm
Back by popular demand Alan Greenhalgh brings us a selection of his beautiful birds of prey to paint or draw.
7.45–10.00pm
“Coastal Scene”. Chris Forsey gives us a demonstration in acrylics of this popular subject.
2.00–5.00pm
“Coastal Scene”. Hildegarde Reid leads today's workshop which follows on from last night's demonstration, however please use your own choice of medium and bring your own reference photos.
