Taking inspiration from Matisse, last week members created work with cut-outs and gouache.
Drawing with scissors
Author: Halifax Art Society
Three of a Kind
Last week’s workshop ‘Three of a Kind’ was led by our member Janet Gledhill. We brought along paper, pencils, acrylic or watercolours. Janet provided everything else, from fresh mushrooms, pears and lemons, to a variety of photos. The idea was to paint three in a row, vertically or horizontally.
The Rainbow Method
Julia Ogden showed us how to paint an acrylic portrait in a very unusual way. We were asked to bring a canvas or paper ready painted in YELLOW with the image pencilled on. We added lilac for all the shadows and continued with red for any warm tones we could see. Now we added green to our lilac and then used white to make corrections and to set highlights. With a small brush we used blue to paint in the details of the eyes and any lines. A brown watery wash finished the work.
Inspired by black and white
Our member Sheila completed her piece from our ‘black and white’ workshop a few weeks ago and has taken inspiration to produce a few more lovely pictures.
Just a quick sketch
When our members Philip and Lynne Hickin visited Parklands Primary School last December together with ‘Grandad Wheels’, Lynne drew a quick sketch portrait of head teacher Chris Dyson and now it is in his new book!
Dyson had been one of the strongest supporters of the Grandad Wheels books and so when the fourth Grandad Wheels book ‘Grandad in the Grotto’ was published, a visit was arranged to Parklands. Lynne presented him with a portrait as a ‘thank you’ for all his support.
Now Chris Dyson has written his own book ‘Parklands: A School built on Love’ about the transformation of the school he took over nine years ago. Lynne’s sketch appears in the book which will be available at the end of the month.
Guardian article on Chris Dyson
Lynne and Philip’s visit to Parklands
One of the Parklands children also drew the portrait of Lynne, from the photo in her biography in the first Grandad Wheels book!
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