Charnwood Drawing and Painting Club
For all artists!
Another fantastic online demonstration with Sue Faulks, this time painting a wonderful tiger. it was lovely to see lots of people joining in or observing in the demonstration.
Here are some of the photos from the event.
We look forward to seeing you all at our next online demonstration with Stan Hurr on the 23rd June.
Charles is back demonstrating acrylics. This will be a popular event, turn up on time to get a good seat!
At this time Normans work varied from Oil and Pastel Portraits (all commissioned) to Seascapes and landscapes. However it was his love of the countryside and natural history which convinced him to specialise in Wildlife and countryside subjects. Many of his wildlife paintings of game birds and wildfowl are commissioned and are held in private collections. His work has been exhibited and sold all over the U.K. and as far a field as Kenya and Australia. He has won many awards for his work, and has had a one man exhibition each year for the last four years.
This is a pay on the door event
£2 for members and £5 for non members
Picture and content taken from http://www.artprofile.co.uk/artist.asp?artist=Norman%20Rossiter&alpha=Rossiter,%20Norman
Joy brought in a selection of bright pumpkins and bramley apples for the still life scene.
Here is a selection of what was created in the 2 hours.
There were three different mediums used for the paintings. Oils, acrylics and watercolour. A still life of a vase full of sunflowers, a sun hat and a rabbit was chosen.
It was nice to see everyone working hard in the group and take turns to paint. Different abilities and styles all mixed together and all was completed in two hours!
It was a very fun evening and it was great to see unconfident painters have a go and join in.
Here’s some pictures of the evening
Tas is back! His vibrant work is always a crowd pleaser. Please arrive early to get a good seat!
Admission price – £2 members £5 non members
It was great to welcome Sonia back to demonstrate her take on painting a still life, using acrylic and oils.
Starting with placing four objects carefully, not too close together and giving a sense of space, then considering the lighting and placing her lamp to maximum shadow effect.
The room we were in was well lit and it was hard not to be deceived by the additional light, Sonia said that if she were with her students the lights would be off altogether and only the still life lit. We will have to remember that for next time she comes she is the first artist that doesn’t mind the lights being off!
Sonia starts with a sketch of her composition, ideally a colour sketch. She worked on cardboard as it is easy to cut to size, and her choice of backgrounds are green for portraits and terracotta for other paintings.
Beginning with acrylics painted thinly she sketched out the composition outlines then applied a wash of violet, green and brown mixed with yellow ocre with a 2.5” decorators brush for the background. Using varying brush strokes for impact and interest.
Then using thin layers of acrylic finding the lights, darks and mid-tone of the under painting getting the basic colours in place.
The second half of the demonstration moved to oils, with her preference for Reeves, Windsor & Newton, Rowney oils. Using painting medium to thin the paint Sonia began building up the layers to create impact.
Sonia chatted her way through the demonstration giving lots of information about how the “Old Masters” were painted, and lots of tips on how we can have a go too. Then demonstrated how colours can react to each other when placed together, often giving a different hue than imagined. It was a great demonstration, appreciated by all thank you Sonia!
The following week we turned up at the new Nanpantan Art group session, set up a still life and Barry said he was going to have a go at painting the way Sonia demonstrated the week before, starting with Acrylics then moving on to oils, to make it more of a challenge he did a double act with Neil both working on the same picture.
A couple of us joined in, with the Acrylics, it was a very good exercise, we all enjoyed it, and of course Barry and Neil’s painting was awesome even though still a work in progress.
If you would like to come and join us at Nanpantan Art Group, whatever your standard we would love to meet you.
On Tuesday night we enjoyed the welcome return of Charles Evans, a professional artist and demonstrator from the North East of England. Painting in his preferred medium, Windsor & Newton acrylics. We watched him create a woodland landscape and, after a short break, a beach scene from his beloved Northumbria.
Charles has the unique ability to paint, talk and entertain whilst simultaneously delivering advice and very useful tips on all manner of painting topics.
The two paintings showed us two vastly different representations of skies: The landscape with a pleasing sunlit summer sky; the beach scene with its dark foreboding storm cloud. Both were painted in a similar way to demonstrate how colour choice can make a huge difference to a painted scene.
Charles also showed us how a restricted palette of 8 or 9 colours can help maintain colour harmony and save cost, as any other colour can be mixed from those few colours.
He gave us many other pieces of advice during the demonstration including using wet and dry acrylic palettes and a tip on restricting blue within a painting. Stick to one blue he recommended using the same colour in both the sky and in the green mixes, again in order to maintain harmony within the work. For Charles this is invariably Cobalt Blue.
Altogether it was a very interesting demonstration by a master of his craft as well as being a very entertaining evening. Thank you Charles!
Local artist and illustrator Sue has been a professional artist since 1988, she loves to help young people and adults take their work a step forward and tonight will demonstrate her techniques in Acrylics.
