Puffin

Daph Willett has used watercolour, ink and gouache to create this

Family Portrait

"I started this portrait just before lockdown and have completed it with help from photos. I am not entirely satisfied with it, but it is better than Mk 1. Perhaps I will go on to produce Mk 3! It is painted with water-based oils." Diana Woods-Humphery

Portrait of my granddaughter
by Diana Woods-Humphery

Daedalus and Icarus

This is Bill Sayer's latest acrylic on canvas board "Daedalus and Icarus".

Bill has also written about the myth and how he started painting.

"For those not familiar with the story, Daedalus the inventor had to flee and provided himself and his son Icarus with a set of wings. Icarus was warned not to fly too near the sun, but the impetuous youth flew too high, the wax holding his wings together melted, and he fell to his doom. I wanted to show the desperate father just failing to catch his falling son. In the absence of suitable models falling from the skies of Ledbury I had a lot of fun making these up with the help of various figure drawing references to get the anatomy right. I started with a large watercolour sketch to get things in the right place and then committed myself to canvas.

Lockdown

Here's a new piece of work by Daph Willett

Lockdown

Abstract acrylics

Today’s images are from Nicole Willett. Both are abstract and done in acrylics. The first she painted on a course last September. It's on a 60 x 80cm canvas. The second is a bit wonky but the original is square - on an 80x80cm canvas.

Angkor Wat

When Ian Fountaine submitted this he wrote, "Been meaning to have a go at this since we went to Cambodia in 2017. Not exactly fast and loose and there was a point when I wished I hadn’t started. Still, got there in the end."

Bluebells and past exhibitions

Daph Willett has sent in this painting of bluebells and that of an art society exhibition from the days when we had just one a year over a long weekend. The venue was the Burgage Hall and it looks like this was taken from the seating gallery on the preview evening. I think this might be called "social proximity". Many of us have memories of lugging those heavy display boards from the church tower to set up and then back again after it was all over. The legs were detached for storage and they were not interchangeable so erection wasn't always easy. Thank goodness someone had developed a numbered labelling system to match the parts.

Bluebells, Malvern