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Summer Workshop 2016
A bit late in the posting, but here are the results of a couple of workshops ran in the summer of 2016. The theme was summer figures in oils, painted in about 5 hours. As with my classes, there is a mix of abilities with some folks who have been painting a while and others who…
Portraits over 5 weeks
A bit late bringing this post to you – these portraits were painted in lessons during January and the beginning of February. We took our time over these paintings; once we’d sketched the image onto tracing paper using the grid method, we transferred it to our canvas. Some folks had prepared a plain canvas with…
South Muskham Art Group – Spring 2017
What a lovely day I had with the artists from South Muskham art group. We painted a portrait in oils – starting with preparing an acrylic background on our canvas, learning a method for gridding to get our image in proportion before transferring to the canvas. We then had fun painting with oils. The subject…
Cakes
Hats off to everyone with these studies in acrylics – not only were folks very restrained and resisted the temptation to eat the still life in front of them, they also did a fantastic job at a deceptively tricky subject. Painting cakes is harder than you think – have a go and post your results…
Three Fruits Study
We’re looking at small, speedy painting in this block of lessons. We’re concentrating on getting an idea of the subject across with minimum fuss, learning to paint what we see plus practice colour finding. Whether we like to paint in detail or loosely, this is a good exercise to do as it requires little time…
Speedy Paintings
For the next 4 weeks we’re going to be painting quickly – getting used to the feel of the paint, enjoying colour, not taking ourselves too seriously and seeing what we can produce. It’s often surprising what you end up with if you choose to paint quickly – some will work out, some won’t. Those…
