Well done to our intrepid members who braved the weather last Friday. We also had cake at break time thanks to David.
The pictures from this week’s workshop are work-in-progress ‘Winter Scene in any Medium’ following on from last week’s demonstration.
On the 9th March Carol Pope will lead a workshop ‘Drawing by numbers’.
The Halifax Art Society’s Friday meeting had Jane Austin as their demonstrator. The title of her demonstration was ‘A Winter Scene in Watercolour’.
The chosen scene was of the Austrian town Zell-am-See. Jane is very gifted at using tools other than the usual artist’s brush. Twigs, feathers, cocktail sticks, candles and chalk all created magic in her hands. Jane gave us a non-stop commentary on how and why she was using each of these tools. The end painting was wonderful and we all look forward to putting Jane’s advice and tips into practice at our next meeting.
Visit Jane’s website at http://www.janeaustin.co.uk
The Friday meeting of the Halifax Art Society was very challenging. No pencil and paper, no brush and paint but a glue gun, ‘bits and pieces’ and some work from our recent ‘marbling session’.
Our demonstrator for the morning was Sue Cordingley who gave us a brief talk on ‘Mudlarking and Beachcombing’. A demonstration of what to do with your finds followed. Showing us pictures of her work jogged us into thinking ‘yes I could do something like that’. It was amazing how one thought led to another and we all came away with creative work that held memories of the past.
On the 16th February we are going to complete our assemblages.
Friday’s meeting of the Halifax Art Society was a ‘follow up’ of the previous week’s acrylic demonstration by Paul Talbot-Greaves. Some of the members were new to the use of acrylic and the advice that Paul had offered us was very useful. Some members preferred to do a landscape in their favourite medium. At the end of the meeting there were many pleasing paintings for the members to be proud of.
On the 9th February there will be a ‘Talk & Workshop’ titled ‘Mudlarking and Assemblages’.
The Friday meeting of the Halifax Art Society had Paul Talbot- Greaves as their demonstrator. We are lucky to have Paul as our president and all the members know what a privilege it is to watch him paint.
Paul chose an attractive view of Cragg Vale in autumn as his subject. The scene was taken from one of his photos that he had digitally enhanced. Paul blocked in thin washes of colour, using acrylic paint on watercolour paper on which he had roughly sketched the scene.
All the painting was done with a very limited palette and flat brushes, ranging from two inches to very fine ones. Even though parts of the painting were in very dark paint, the end result was of a truly vibrant and colourful painting, which was much admired by all.
On the 2nd of February a working session will follow: ‘Landscape in any Medium’.
Halifax Art Society 