Christmas Party - December 2011

On 3rd December we had our quarterly meeting followed by our Christmas Party.

Pastel Workshop with Maria Paterson

Saturday 19th November 2011

 Maria demonstrates some Pastel techniques







Maria's vase is sprayed with water



Maria, Rikki, Heather, Margart, Margaret,  Anne and Trisha



Some of the end products of the day







Megs plate with apples





The Presidential Treasurer in action



Outdoor Painting Day with Tony Leitch

After a couple of rainy days Saturday turned out to be a great day for painting outdoors. 

We met at Bexhill Outdoor Cathedral for some wonderful views, fun and sketching.
Tony brought along some of his sketches for us to look at admire.


One of the views over Bexhill




Helen bought along her oil paints



Margaret is under that hat





Tony and the girls at the Pulpit!





Some of the artists at work



Sharon Muir Portrait Tutorial - 15th October, 2011

 Sharon Muir delighted us with her practical methods of producing portraits.  We all produced some good results and plenty of knowledge to take home.

We have invited Sharon to come back next year to teach us some more.



Sharon demonstrates a point

 
 


Sharon provided plenty of faces to choose from



Richard Rogers 17th September 2011

Richard Rogers, acrylic artist from South Australia presented an interesting day of "abstracting the landscape"

Richards catch cry for the day was "there are no mistakes just results"





Richard started this painting with a strip of red, yellow, and white
paint straight from the tube, then smudged them together to  make

an interesting skyline for his abstracted landscape





Heather enjoys starting yet another canvas





Deb finds the loose way of painting challenging - in a good way.



Anne studies the colours of the landscape



one of Richards abstract compositions



Linnea  finds it liberating to use the Chroma paints and mediums supplied by Richard

Tony Leitch Tutorial 20th August, 2001

Tony Leitch is an extremely gifted artist living in the Clunes area of Northern NSW.

 Tony studied visual arts majoring in printmaking at Canberra School of Art in the late 1970’s. He was Head of Installations at the Australian National Gallery and has also worked in Museums in Saudi Arabia and China installing collections.
 
Tony’s landscapes and figurative work have been influenced by his experiences of living and working in Central Australia, Saudi Arabia, China and on the North Coast of NSW. His oil paintings have been purchased by Australian and overseas collectors.

Tony does a quick sketch of the view from the back door




One of Tony's paintings

  Even though the day wascold and wet those who ventured out had a fantastic day



This little guy wanted to join the class





Anne put the finishing touches on one of her pastel works



Helen works on her fruit study

Trish Callaghan Pastellist 16 July, 2011

Trish Callaghan is a successful pastel artist currently residing in Murwillumbah.

Trish grew up on a farm near Dalby in Queensland.  She started using pastel when she lived in Broome in 1990,  her work reflects the Australian outback with its low horizons, vastness and starry nights.

She is a trained preschool teacher and is currently studying for an Arts Degree.

She has won many prizes for her work.



It was great to see many new and not seen for a while members.  We all had an interesting day.

We made a colour wheel with paint swatches

Trish demonstrates to Alayne, Helen and Narelle

Meg discusses her pastel painting with Val



Trish explains a point to Val and Charlotte



There was a great roll up on the day.





Some of Trish's work



Christine Porter - Everything you need to know about Watercolour

Christine Porter  has been a professional watercolour artist and more recently printmaker for over 20 years and is a qualified teacher. Chris puts a great deal of preparation and effort into her tutorials.

We had an interesting day working on basic watercolour skills with each of us making up a booklet called "The Little Blue Book of Watercolour Painting".

Chris bought along lots of samples of weights, grades and brands of watercolour paper for us to try - and stick into our booklets - a great future reference.

Some of the topics covered were the elements of painting,  paper variables, the medium of watercolour, the techniques of applying paint, washes, colour and "leaving the white bits".



Christine demonstrates how the booklet works



Jude and Chris look at techniques of other artists



Looking at how paint works





Looking at tonal value
















Chris shows us the final product



Lyn admires some of Christine's work



Maggie Cross Tutorial May 2011

The subject for today was Any Subject, Any Medium

We learnt some interesting points about composition, light and shade, colour etc

Magggie set up some still life settings and some people used them while others chose to work on their own material.

We all did a few sketches of our subject to deterimine the best composition before we moved onto our canvasses.

Margaret brought along some flowers and did 2 lovely paintings

                                                                It was Eva's first tutorial and she was very happy with her painting

Angela did a great job on this cheeky fellow

Maggie gives encouraging critique at the end of the day.

Mike King-Prime Tutorial 16th April, 2011

Mike King-Prime has been a professional artist since he was 15 years old.  He worked for 40 years as a commercial artist doing background scenes for names such as Hanah Barbera and Disney.  He worked on the Scooby-Doo and Flintstone cartoon series.

Mike now paints for pleasure with his works much sort after with his work in many galleries.

Mikes tutorial day was well and truly an "outside the square" approach using acrylics in a watercolour style, using lots of water and washes with some great results. Those who attended learnt lots of unexpected tricks and ideas.

Mike demonstrates mixing colour washes

A print of one of Mike's paintings

Mike gives Lyn some advise on her work