Tom Way Photography

February’s talk was by award winning photographer Tom Way. He has three watchwords: light, character, and simplicity for capturing great wild life pictures. And he certainly does capture great moments with wonderful animals both African – his favourites – and domestic. Having a very shallow depth of field allows him to blur the background, thus Read More …

Figure in oil paint

April’s demonstration was how to paint a figure in oils. Lewis Hazelwood Horner, who is a professional artist, showed us how he set about creating a figure using a very limited palette. He uses sandor low odour medium and yellow ochre/cadmium yellow, alizarin crimson lake, titanium white/zinc white, ultramarine blue/cobalt. Using Andrew as a model Read More …

Demo by Frank Walters

Frank is an experienced watercolourist. He demonstrated his technique on three different landscapes. He suggested there are three distinct steps to a successful painting: the first wash, then the mid-tones, then the drama of the darks and shadows. He always puts the same colours in the water as in the sky. His favourite colours ? Read More …

Pauline Hazelwood

February’s meeting was a demonstration of interior painting in watercolour by Pauline Hazelwood. What a treat! Pauline started with deciding on her palette which she kept to a minimum with raw sienna, yellow ochre, cadmium orange, cobalt turquoise, viridian and alizarin crimson. She sketched out the interior very lightly with a pencil, which she held Read More …