Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas and a very creative and healthy New Year to all members of Exmouth Art Group. I hope the white stuff disappears from pavements and roads before long to make it safer for us all to venture out more.

Angela

David Harris

David Harris gave a talk on the influences and history of architectural lettering and also talked about his calligraphic artworks and the techniques he employed to create them.

Exhibition Over

Shane Tiernay presenting the cheque for £1200 to Hospicecare.

Lorna porter picking the winner.

Annual Summer Exhibition Now Open

After some hectic setting up on Monday the majority of paintings were hung.

The preview party on Wednesday was VERY well attended.

Norah Pearse Winner Jean Esther Brock

Norah Pearse Winner Averil Wooton

Norah Pearse Winner, Len Fry

Graham Jowett-Ive Demo

Some quick jotted notes I made during the interesting demo by Graham Jowett-Ive.

Notice the sky colour on clear sunsets/ sunrises, there is a general rainbow effect.
Use same colour in water as sky, calm seas easier.
Don't use pure paint or pure white.
Mixing oils on greaseproof paper.
Use of liquin as a reducing oil, this is a drying and smoothing agent.

A favourite colour is permanent rose, use with cobalt blue for cloud shadow colour.
Hue in title of paint = cheap pigment .

Seas
Blue sea = sunny day, Green sea = overcast sky
Think about scale and perspective.  Dry brush acrylic paint to start, bluish green horizon.
Don't make waves too steep.
More paint and darker, use brush tip to put on thin strokes.
Leave acrylic to dry (10 mins drying time is big advantage), then use oils.
Liquin or turps for thinning. Watery wash of blue makes sea comes to life
Add light then dark then light .... maybe 20 layers, repeating lines, finished with rigger. 
Make broken waves curl over top of shadow side with off white.
Accentuating sides of waves also dark and light side of picture. 
Paint waves on waves.
Mix pale blue then accentuate some of the lines, i.e. spume, make light touches on the waves.


For masts and rigging use special triangular ruler and  cheap rigger brushes.
Paint clouds first on white canvas, use big brush to stop fiddling .
Only use titanium white, mix in tiny amounts of colour, e.g. Yellow ochre + Cobalt blue for clouds.
Cerulean blue + white for sky colour,  paint around clouds and blend bands of darker colour towards top of sky. 

Thursday at the Gut and Lee Ford

The thursday sketching days are proving very popular with around a dozen of us at the Gut this week. The weather was perfect. Next week we muster at the free car park behind the public hall at Budleigh at ten o clock and for those who can stay will probably meet for lunch at the steamer steps area of the beach around twelve thirty.

The date for the Lee ford reception has changed to Tuesday 3rd August at 5:30pm. Many of us painted in the grounds and since Alan Cotton wiil be making the selection I do encourage you to submit your paintings. Alan Cotton is a fine artist but he is also a very good teacher and his critique is likely to be very enlightening.

Of course all members are invited to the Reception irrespective of whether they are entering the competition

Upcoming Events

The A la Ronde Exhibition is starting on the 19th June continuing until the 30th. There will be a preview for members and invited guests at 5;30pm on Friday 18th.
A performance work by Katie Etheridge is also taking place there on the 19th. See here for details.

Anyone interested in botanical painting will be interested in this

http://www.botanicalpaintingtoday.com/cms/media/wholesite/SUMMERNEWSLETTER2.pdf
Also keep up to date with Exmouth events at http://www.exmouth.gov.uk