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Pastel Landscape demonstration

4 December, 2022 Halifax Art Society

We had a great demonstration from Matthew Evans on the 18th November, who painted a landscape in pastels. He brought a photo of a landscape view and had drawn an outline of it in preparation. He also brought some of his completed work which was impressive.

He gave us so many ideas and tips of how to use pastels and protect the image e.g. when you add water to pastel it becomes a watercolour to which you can then reapply pastel; if using a fixative you should lay the painting on a flat surface and spray it in a sweeping action from about 2ft away and greaseproof paper protects the image when travelling. The demonstration was very enjoyable and we all learnt so much.

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Soft pastels

6 November, 20223 November, 2022 Halifax Art Society

On the 21st October, a soft pastel workshop was led by Carol Pope and the subject matter was a portrait of a person or animal. Carol talked through how she created the many wonderful portraits using different techniques.

Materials were provided to help inspire members to create their own work.

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Recycled surfaces

26 June, 2022 Halifax Art Society

Linda had prepared thoroughly our Recycle Workshop. On display was a book about Toulouse Lautrec who already worked successfully with recycled materials. Lynda had even found a recent winner in a painting competition who said that painting on packaging material often creates surprising results. Lynda had brought many diverse images to pick from and during the workshop the silence proved that people really enjoyed working on cardboard, brown paper etc.

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Hands on

4 April, 2022 Halifax Art Society

At the end of March we took time to look at our own hands and the shapes they make in a workshop of ‘Busy hands’ led by Lynda Thomas. We looked at a variety of reference material, books and wooden mannequin models as well as our own digits.

Lynda encouraged us to use different media and look at our hands in a different way.

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A rubbish still life

27 November, 202125 November, 2021 Halifax Art Society

On Friday 12th November, our member Jenny Reid led the Halifax Art Society in a workshop dealing with rubbish in a different way before the recycling. It was astonishing to see how skilfully members created pieces of art within two hours.