Last Friday Miriam Laville gave a demonstration to the Halifax Art Society on how to create a picture with natural forms in mixed media. To the delight of twenty people in the audience the artist was using a brand new microphone the society had just bought. So we all clearly heard and understood her explanations how to use charcoal, acrylics, oil pastels or a medium new to most – ink pigment blocks.
Next session we are going to practice what we have learned.
Last Friday morning members of the Halifax Art Society had a try at ‘Fantasy Drawing’ guided by Carol Pope, who provided lots of reference material and showed everyone her wonderful drawings.
Here are our attempts…..
We spent workshop sessions at the start of November creating Christmas cards and bookmarks. Some members made Christmas cards for fund raising at the McMillan Unit, others concentrated on cards to give to friends. What could be nicer than a beautiful bespoke card made especially for the recipient?
The Halifax Art Society group enjoyed practising ‘Painting reflections in water’ . One member brought a mirror along, placed objects on it and that gave again different aspects of the topic.
Our demonstrator on the 13th October was Stephen Coates and his chosen subject was ‘Reflections in Watercolour’. What started with a fascinating lesson in physics soon developed into a demonstration of reflections in different kind of water. After our tea break he painted a tranquil scene of mountains and a lake using only four colours.
On the 10th November Lynne Hickin will give an illustrated talk on ‘Alice through the Illustrators’.
Halifax Art Society 