Last Friday our costume model, Julie, was in flapper mode and helped to make it a memorable session. Many members came to All Saints Parish Hall in Godfrey Road, Skircoat Green at 10:30 to create a portrait in any medium.
On the 8th March, Charles Kelly will give a demonstration ‘Birds in Watercolour’, wet in wet.
Last Friday morning’s workshop was great fun for members of the Halifax Art Society. Led by Matthew Evans, we used rollers and sponges to add acrylic paint to lining paper. The results were very impressive! (We have more pictures on our Facebook page).
We can recommend Matthew as a tutor, who is featured in the Leisure Painter magazine.
Last Friday morning at All Saints Parish Hall we were trying out painting trees in oils when we had a visitor from Overgate Hospice.
Ellena, one of the fundraising team, thanked members for their wonderful artwork that features in this year’s calendar. She brought a huge ‘cheque’ with her showing how much money has been raised to date from the sales. Halifax Art Society has been asked to provide the artwork for the calendar of 2020 and it is a privilege to help the Hospice in this way.
On Friday 25 January, the Halifax Art Society enjoyed David Starley’s demonstration of ‘Trees in Oils’. For many it was the first experience with this medium.
It was fascinating to watch David starting with a blank canvas and with one of his own photographs of a wood as inspiration. We learned how to give it the first grounding and to work with different forms and sizes of painting knives. As David stressed, it’s difficult to complete an oil painting in two hours, but we all thought he did a pretty good job.
On the 8th February Matthew Evans will lead a workshop on ‘Roller Painting’ and we were asked to bring an apron. So another new experience is waiting.
