4th August 2023 – A visit was organised to sketch at the All Saints churchyard and garden. The weather was rather wet and drizzly, not ideal for outdoor painting. A few of us ventured out to the church to look at the gardens and cemetery, which was extremely interesting. Those who were at the Hall were busy painting flowers or working on previous subjects.
28th July 2023 – Stephen first invited members to draw along with him as he demonstrated how he quickly draws figures, creates perspective, where a vanishing point actually is! and the difference between shadows and reflections. Stephen then completed sketching a Mediterranean street scene using ink and wash. We all learnt something from a very enjoyable demonstration. Stephen kindly donated his finished artwork.
Last week most members had completed their mobile, so today members decided to complete unfinished artwork for the Halifax Heritage Bus or Calderdale Industrial Museum exhibition.
Our guest speaker Victor Buckley described his role of Art & Wellbeing volunteer at Springhill Hospice in Rochdale. He talked about his love of sculpture and brought in examples of his work. Victor provided all the material we needed to make a mobile and suggested we look at Alexander Calder’s mobile artwork. Members went about creating their own mobile, which was a bit fiddly but great fun.
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