Janet Gledhill led two Watercolour Abstract workshops on 30th September and 7th October, focusing mainly on landscapes.
She brought in some of her own work and explained how she created the different effects, giving us lots of ideas and inspiration. We attempted to create our own abstract paintings and quickly realised that it wasn’t as easy as it seemed! It was really interesting to explore a different style of painting.
Last Friday members of the HAS came together to put into practice what we had learned in the previous week’s session with Tracey Krupianka. Some of us used special brushes laced with two colours. Others tried to dab a background with pieces of a sponge, or used a dry brush to mix colours. Some members preferred to finish other pieces of art. Once again a very enjoyable Friday morning.
On Friday 2nd September, Tracey Krupianka gave us a memorable demonstration in acrylic. It was fascinating to watch her using a sponge to create the background of her picture before she created vertical lines in the middle with a brush to prepare the reflection of the sunset in a lake. With a dry brush she then mixed the colours with horizontal strokes before she painted flowers and leaves. We learned that you can gather two colours on a specific brush to create stunning effects.
Joy Edwards shares her finished picture from our allotment session….
Last Friday Sue Cordingley brought along some copies of the children’s books ‘Dragons of Wainhouse Tower’ for sale. The Wainhouse Tower is a well known folly in Halifax. Sue did the illustrations to the stories by Sarah Stone.
Sue brought also some of her work with found objects or memorabilia, little booklets or stunning objects assembled with wire and string.
Sue had brought her tablet along and gave us valuable hints and tips in addition to last week’s session with Dennis. We could even have a go at some of the virtual ‘brushes’ Dennis had talked about. After our coffee break we then got out our own little boxes we wanted to decorate and created assemblages. Lynda had brought many too, and lots of material we could use.
Some of us practised with tablets or went on with previous work.
Halifax Art Society 