The Pear Tree

This watercolour by Ian Fountaine is, according to his own description, his 'latest daub'. 

Snow

Sue Embrey watched a Zoom demo by Les Darlow on Thursday 29 Oct using Rowland Hilder’s watercolours as the subject for a pan pastel painting. She has used ordinary pastels and an ink pen on this and her own interpretation. It’s her first snow scene!!

 

Snow Squirrel

Daph Willett has named her painting "Snow Squirrel" but this looks like a red squirrel in snow rather than an Arctic Ground Squirrel.  When many of our members were children seeing red squirrels was a delight but not terribly unusual. There were over 3 million in the UK in the early 1950s but now there are about 120,000 and most of those are in Scotland. 

Inktober

Inktober 2020 set the challenge of 31 pen and ink drawings in 31 days. Sue Murphy gave it a try and here's a collage of her first few drawings.

Sunflowers

Catherine Beech has been trying her hand at painting sunflowers. She says "It’s my second attempt at the same sunflowers. The first had a blue background which didn’t set the flowers off. However, I don’t think Van Gogh has anything to worry about!"

Autumn sunshine

This morning was wonderfully sunny and Ian Fountaine's painting is a perfect celebration of such glorious autumn days.

Rock Art

Here's something very different from Diana Woods-Humphery. She writes, "I found this large boulder in my garden and decided to paint this Chinese inspired landscape on it. It is painted with acrylics and I am just debating whether to seal it with PVA."