Some more painting with bleach

Mary's delicate observation of seed heads/cases 

And Maureen's darmatic use of colour in this pot

Kay's use of Artisan oils

Kay has produced two lovely paintings using Artisan (water soluble) oil paints

Using bleach to create images!

Hilary's seed heads

Sheila's versions

After looking at the work of American artist Martha Alf, we created some 'calm' still life groups of pears, using a range of media.

Sue's still life using water soluble pencils

Patricia's 'mixed media' pears, using pastels pencils & water

Hilary's beautifully observed pencil drawing

And the other Hilary's colourful pastel drawing!

More acrylic masterpieces!

Detail from Marion's painting

Impressionistic apples from Jean

Heather's flowers

Moving on to colour this week with acrylics.

Pauline's Acrylic painting

Mandy's dynamic view

Lovely colourful group from Marion

And some fresh apples from Jean!

Progressing on to painting with acrylics!

Not bad for a first attempt, Christine!!

Another successful tonal painting by Pauline

Marion's study in blue!

 And Kay's lovely textured tonal study

Sheila has produced a cleverly abstracted image!

More pastel drawings & water............Some additions from todays class

Maria's jewel like pastel drawing....

...and Val's painterly pastels with water!

This week we have moved on from just simple pastel drawing to using water with pastels to create a different surface texture

Marion's Pears

Hilary's still life

Barbara's view of the group

Caron's pears

This week............

Well its been a busy week, back teaching after a break of nearly 3 months! Also starting to attend a short mixed media art course myself AND a life drawing class on Thursday!
In the classes I teach we kicked off the year with 'taking a line for a walk' and creating a funky observational drawingin pastels from the 1920's style still life group I put together. Here are some results -

Hilary's sketch on newspaper!

Anne's sketch on brown paper

this afternoon

I spent a few hours today with a Chinese Brush in my hand, creating Koi fish swirling in water, a solitary Sparrow and some red & purple(!) Cherry Blossoms...............I can't share them with you because I gave them to my friend Tim who advised and helped me..........I then moved on to creating a view of the nearby fields in the style of Van Gogh........fairly productive afternoon.