Category Archives: Medium
Paul Dene Marlor Workshop
Elephants in Watercolour
Peter & Kate Readman Watercolour Workshop
On Saturday 10th August Peter & Kate did an all day wet on wet watercolour workshop for our club members following on from a demo they did on the previous Wednesday evening. All the club members who attended enjoyed the day and were given plenty of help and tips on how to use watercolour wet on wet. See below for members work.
Workshop by Helen Johnson on printing techniques.
Helen is a member of Farsley Art club and gave a fantastic demo for our club today. She showed us how to make our own tiles for printing and how to print from them. She will be carrying on from this next Friday 16th August if there are any more people who would like to join her.
Oil painting with Andrew
Andrew ran a painting workshop for members working in oils. He asked for members to prepare their boards or canvases with a coloured ground beforehand. He suggested that the paintings be alla prima. An under drawing is usually needed. The oil colour is applied directly to the board, usually in one stroke of the brush in the right place so as not to have to go over it again.
Members’ work in progress at the end of the session.
Demonstration by Anthony Barrow
Anthony Barrow first illustrated how to sketch the shape of a head using an oval, a centre line down the face and eye spacing. He used heavy lining wallpaper prepared with gesso.
The paper was prepared with willow charcoal rubbed in to make a grey basecoat. The basic head shape and position of key features were drawn with a charcoal stick.
Anthony worked on the features in charcoal and darker areas with compressed black charcoal. Highlights were created by wiping charcoal areas.
Anthony applied some hairspray and a wet acrylic wash (mix of burnt sienna, red and blue) over the face to fix the image so far.
The face was refined with more charcoal drawing and white chalk pastel.
The final result was impressive and inspired members to try charcoal portraits.
Pastels with Les Darlow
Les Darlow is an artist, tutor and demonstrator from Laycock near Keighley. He specialises in pastel landscapes. His paintings can be viewed on his website > www.lesdarlow.com/ .
There are also links to youtube videos showing him working.
His first demonstration was a sea landscape in pan pastel.
His second painting was of sea and cliffs.
He made an underpainting in ink and finished with pastels.
Workshop with Sue Ford
Sue Ford examples
Workshop
Brusho with Barbara
Barbara the lead the session of “watercolour with fun!” It was like a harvest festival as quite a few members brought flowers and vegetables as subjects.
It is 4 years since Joanne Boon Thomas demonstrated Brusho painting at Farsley Art Club just as Brusho was gaining acceptance.
See > Brusho 2013
Members hard at work
Members’ Work in Progress
Phil Biggs Demonstration
Phil Biggs came from Spalding to demonstrate a watercolour painting around Cummock Water in the lakes.
Phil’s colour pallet
Cadmium yellow, raw sienna, burnt sienna, burnt umber, light red, cadmium red, indian red, cobalt blue, ultramarine blue, winsor blue and paynes grey.
He used various sizes of squirrel mop brushes and Arches cold pressed (“not”) paper.
For the sky, he used two greys: burnt umber/ultramarine blue and paynes grey.
For the mountains, he mixed various colours coming forward from light hills to dark hills: light red/cobalt blue, ultramarine blue/indian red, raw sienna/cadmium yellow and raw sienna/ultramarine blue.
Demonstration
Phil had already sketched the outline of lakeland mountains, trees and a farm. He added some grey and a little blue into the sky and a couple of distant hills in .
Phil mixed a darker grey for the next layer of mountains, leaving a misty layer.
Phil painted the next layer of mountains with hints of green, yellow and brown.
The nearest two mountains with more mixed greys tending to green and brown.
Phil added tree lines along the lake, trees behind the house. He then washed light colour into the fields and added a hedging across.
Darker greens completed the foreground.
Phil then worked at a conventional slope to complete the sky.
The painting at the end of the demonstration shows a dramatic sky and hills.
The following paintings, and more, can be viewed on Phil Bigg’s web page > artprofile.co.uk
Images copyright of Phil Biggs, artist from Spalding, Lincolnshire UK.
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