Exmouth Town Hall & other Exhibition's

The art group exhibition at Exmouth Town Hall is now open with approx 70 entries. Dates are 28th May until 3rd June.
The Lympstone Art Group has it's annual exhibition on soon from 30th May until 6th June, and...

Alan Cotton has an exhibition on at the Kingfisher gallery in Sidbury from Sat 29 May to Sun 6 June.
Mon - Sat  11am - 5 pm,  Sun 11am - 4 pm.

The Exhibition has now finished, click here to see the Mayor's prize winners.

Art in Action offer

ART IN ACTION Thursday 15 – Sunday 18 July 2010
It’s less than eight weeks until Art in Action opens its gates for another four days of fine art and master craftsmanship in the Oxfordshire countryside. Over 150 artists from around the globe will demonstrate their skills in a wide range of disciplines for an audience of enthusiastic and enquiring visitors.

The fine artists include those working in oils, acrylics, charcoal, water colour, marbling and more, and the content ranges from landscapes and traditional scenes to contemporary and still life, from large bold canvases to Russia miniatures.

Art in Action has a special ticket offer that we'd be delighted to offer to your members. Purchase 3 standard online Adult tickets and receive a 4^th free; for any day of the event 15 - 18 July 2010. The total cost will be £42 for 4 tickets, a savings of £14. Come together in one car and help save the environment.

This offer applies only to tickets purchased online at www.artinaction.org.uk before 11 July 2010 using the promotional code ARTCLU

Drawing and Painting at Lee Ford

On Thursday 20th May about a dozen members of the Thursday Group visited Lee Ford as a result of Mr and Mrs Lindsay-Finn's kind invitation to go along and draw or paint their beautiful gardens. The weather was warm but a bit overcast and everyone had a lovely time. It was very difficult to choose the best spot because there was a painting around every corner.

Shauna Southam at the Devon County Show

Shauna Southam is holding a chalk pastel on paper demonstration in the Exmouth Tent Area at the Devon County Show on Saturday.

Michael Norman Demonstration

< Mike Norman demonstrating his pastel landscape techniques.







Here are a few tips / techniques which I manged to jot down or remember of the session:
Surface is a pastel card with a brownish tint.
Spray fix over initial charcoal drawing to fix it.
Start with a brighter underpainting.
Drag down with hand over underpainting to soften & blend.
Put in details.
You can add and repaint a lot more than I thought.
Use a bristle brush to scrub off pastel if the surface is too clogged.
Keep pastel in ground rice, shake to clean.
To get distance on hills etc, drag down or tap (scumble) a strong blue over them.

The (almost?) finished painting >