Skills Evening

A good turnout for the skills evening, with demos ranging from sugar decoration to digital image creation.

Tree Planting at A La Ronde

Colin and myself spent an enjoyable (but exhausting) morning planting fruit trees at A La Ronde.
The art group and other local societies contributed to the cost of the thirteen fruit trees which have now been planted in the garden and field of our local NT property.

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.