Sunday 28 November 2010

Todling down the brae


The Start-rite Children 60 years on

Marsha encouraged the Start-Rite generation of artists to paint figures in a landscape


Thursday 11 November 2010

Catch up with the "Black hand gang"

Tony demonstrates that he does sometimes get messy

Trevor showed us a new (to us) technique using water with pastels to create a tonal under painting






Paul Alcock demonstrated the use of an acrylic under painting with oils on top


Tuesday 26 October 2010

Friday 8 October 2010

Snow scene with Colin Stead

Painting the snow with Colin Stead




Jenny has set the Keswick Challenge entrys can be any size any medium and the closing date for entrys is 14th January 2011 this will be our second sesion in 2011


Monday 27 September 2010

Catching up







Ge Zuqiang (Below) who kindly took me to see the tea picking, picked the winners of the CHINA TEA CHALLENGE


1st Lindall Collins


I choose picture 131 as the first one, it shows people pick up tea as fact and close to life

2nd Allan Vann


Picture 138 as the second, showing the tea scenery

3rd Elaine Unsworth



Picture 127, the third, it shows people on the ghat


Prizes will be handed out on Friday 1st October





To complete the Chinese theme Li Jiali (AKA Sally Leo) joined us at Heybridge as part of her first visit to th UK.


Sunday 18 July 2010

Saturday 26 June 2010

Winners of the Japan Challenge



Winners of the Japan Challenge
Prizes and organisation by Lyn and Tim
Judged by their fiend Kazuyo
(also a impressive artist we will try and get some of her work to show you)




First price went to Jenny Roe who was on holiday

Second price went to Maureen Dale
Third price went to Gerry Dale
(honest we didn't bribe the judge :))












(including Towards Scotland part 2)






Please click on the links to see the picture galleries







All entry's for the Japan Challenge must be in by Friday 25th June








Friday 18 June 2010

Towards Scotland part 1




Please click on the links to see the picture galleries







All entry's for the Japan Challenge must be in by Friday 25th June








Saturday 12 June 2010

Towards Scotland



Over the next two weeks Trevor Harwood we will be working with us using photographs taken by Derek Gough earlier this year in Scotland. Trevor will be using water colour and acrylics so please download your favourite image to work on next Friday


7th June hard at work without a tutor .









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Saturday 5 June 2010

Working on the Japanese Challenge with Paul Alcock



Paul made the complex seem simple (Ha Ha) with a very quick pastel sketch of one of the Japanese pictures. Creating a simple composition that expressed the subject well but concentration on shape and shade.





Please click on the links to see the picture galleries



Sunday 30 May 2010

Sticky Fun


Jenny Hill did a session on an introduction to collage
and as usual you can see what we got up to by following the link





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Thursday 11 February 2010

Sky blue pink

The announcement of the winners of the America challenge
was made at the Bull by Barbara




The winner was Allen






2nd Jenny












3rd Silvia






4th Tony