Dark Skies of Autumn

Daph Willett is a regular contributor to this blog and this time we have to of her paintings. The first is very appropriate now that the sun is coming up later each morning.

Dark Skies of Autumn Dawn

Ink & watercolour on gesso

Owl

Sue Murphy emailed about a week ago saying, "I’ve had a week away with no chance to paint so here’s a drawing from a couple of months back that I hope you’ll find interesting.  It is from a wonderful photograph taken by a friend, Philip Batty, with his permission.  I hope to do some more from a couple of other photos of the same owl. This is on black sketch paper, mixed media -  pastels, white marker pen and gel pen."

Scraperboard

We have four images from Mike Russell who writes, "The scraperboard hare and diver are finished, but the stag still needs some background work .The rather wacky picture of 3 sheep was painted for a competition but I didn't submit it. I am working on a WW2 aircraft painting in oils for a friend."

Cabby

Belinda Morgan is three quarters of the way through a painting and says that one day she'll pick up her paint brush and finish it. Let's hope she does. The picture below is the last she completed and is of her old horse Cabby standing in his field - pastel pencil on a sanded pastel paper.

Cabby in his field

Experimenting and more

Daph Willett is proving very productive over the last few months and here are three more of her pieces.

Storm - Experimenting with ink & watercolour 

Visit to Hellens, Much Marcle

Still Life Revisited

This is a follow up to an earlier post on this blog which you'll find here. That showed a rather rough watercolour which was used to explore the subject. The following image shows a much improved attempt at the same subject, again in watercolour.

Still Life with apples - Richard Hyde

 

Painting and Stitching

Sue Embrey wrote, "I was able to spend 5 days at Malham in August in glorious weather! Painting plein air every day was great!" Here is a pastel painting she did.

Sue has also finished another needle project called a Marriage Pillowe, taken from a late 17th century original. Wool on linen in traditional crewel work

 

 

Garden Artists

 Four members met together on Wednesday to paint and/or draw in Catherine Beech's garden.

Here is Val McDonald's sketch of Diana Veasey and Val McDonald hard at work

And this is what Diana was working on

Still Life

This photo shows a still life set up with a bright single light source to create strong shadows. The set up was viewed and photographed from several angles before this one was selected.

The next choice to be made was how much of this to include in a painting. Thumbnails are a good way of reaching a decision about how to crop the scene. The first Notan sketch, though crude, looked interesting enough to be taken further. 

A pencil sketch followed.