10 lucky members attended an oil painting workshop with Mark Fennell, working with portraits. Mark showed how to get the proportions, then the blocking in and finally how to do an eye. Below are the pictures of the work the members achieved as well as the demo. Can you tell which one was the professional? Read More …
A most interesting talk by award winning photographer Claire Carter (to view Claire’s gallery click on the word here) was enjoyed by members at our June meeting. With a slide show of wonderful photographs, Claire explained about how we should consider taking and subsequently using our photos for painting landscapes. She reminded us of the copyright Read More …
What a treat! Stan honed his craft doing quick portraits in Paris and St Tropez and refined it when he added caricatures to his repertoire. We were treated to a demonstration of the speed of pastels and charcoal when he managed 3 portraits and a caricature in one evening. All of which captured a likeness Read More …
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 …
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 …
Take a look at Andrew Schofield’s portraits at Three Rivers House next time you are in Rickmansworth. FREE exhibition! www.animalisticart.co.uk/ will take you to Andrew’s website and some more of his pictures.
Pictures by Janet Lee have replaced those by the Chair, Barbara Burrows in Three Rivers Council Offices. take a look next time you are in Rickmansworth!
A Saturday workshop with Joel Waring saw a group of members tackling street scenes in strong sunlight. Here’s what we did!
An exciting demonstration by Heather Miller (click on her name to see Heather’s website) of Bluebells in acrylics last Thursday. Heather started by telling us how she started a picture with a mood board and which colours she found the most useful as well as a very handy tip on the creation of a stay wet palette Read More …
Great demonstration by Jon Davies of portrait drawing in charcoal . Here’s a couple of images from the evening. The report is below if you scroll down. This is the first visit from Jon Davies to Radas as he has only recently moved from Wales. He is a very experienced portrait artist who treated us Read More …
