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