Watercolours, Whickham, Gateshead

Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Tuesday - Mixed Media 2

Our Tuesday group edged ever closer to completing their mixed media project (acrylic and water-colour). As with our Monday group the work produced tonight has stunning details and colourful effects. Next week people can either carry on with their mixed media or move on to our next project: IN THE STYLE OF...John Sell Cotman. Enjoy the art...

Alan

Dorothy

Elizabeth

Fiona

James

Joyce

Margaret

Mary

Maurice

Norrey

Olwyn

Tom

Monday Mixed-Media

We moved onto the second stage of our mixed media project and the results are looking stunning. Enjoy the details that are starting to emerge in the pictures below.

If anyone wants to continue with their mixed media painting next week that's okay. Otherwise we will be starting our next project IN THE STYLE OF - John Sell Cotman.

Barbara

Connie

Jan

Maria

Marie

Melanie

Pat

Steve

Tom

Yvette

Saturday, 12 October 2013

Course Programme

The new course programmes (Monday and Tuesday Groups) are now available in the Resource Page opposite. Click on that page to access the programme sheet. They will look like the images below:

Monday & Tuesday Groups: Back at it!

We are now back for the new term and into our 2nd week, Monday and Tuesday evenings.

We welcomed new members to our groups: Marie, Stephen and Yvette, Fiona, and Mary, - great start with your drawings and paintings guys!

In week one we did the usual induction, a quiz to check our knowledge from last year, followed by a return the key basic skills of seeing by drawing: how to interpret colour as a grey scale - drawing colours using only a graphite stick to show the range of tones from dark to light; drawing in line only to see the shapes and 2D construction in our chosen image. Both the quiz and the drawing exercise helped us to assess where we are at the start of the new course and to set some new goals for our work.

In week two started the first of our 2-week projects. The first one is "Working in Mixed Media" where we started with a traditional watercolour glazing technique - where the colours are laid down on top of each other in transparent washes (glazes) allowing the white paper underneath to give brilliance and luminosity to the colours. We did this wet-on-wet to enable maximum contrast between the two paint mediums to be used. Next week we apply the opaque, thickly textured layers using acrylic paints.

Here are the first-stage wet-onwet watercolour paintings:

Monday Group: