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.

Eastnor Castle

 Daph Willett is certainly keeping up with her homework. Here are two more of her paintings.

Loosening up

 Ian Fountaine writes, "I was quite pleased (unusual I know) with my last painting effort, Polperro harbour, but it was still rather ‘tight’. In an effort to loosen up a bit, I watched several of Tim Wilmot’s YouTube videos before attempting a painting in his style and based on a selection of bits from his paintings; Tim demonstrated for Ledbury Art Society a while ago and I’ve always been a fan. This is the result. Some of it seems to work but plenty doesn’t so I think another go is in order."

Tim Wilmott's visit to Ledbury can be found on this blog here and Ian Fountaine's previous watercolour of Polperro Harbour is here