PROGRAMME FOR   2025

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You can always choose your own subject and do your own thing you do not have to follow the programme.

APRIL

TUE1st   Botanical Art – Watercolour – Paint something small and interesting. Contemporary artists www.botanicalartandartists.com/botanical-artists-in-the-uk.html . Botanical art fuses art and science to produce images that have an important role in documenting and identifying plants.

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TUE8th Paint a face (human or animal) within an old masterpiece portrait. Paint in a recognisable style Examples: Girl with a Pearl Earring, Mona Lisa, Henry V111. Other ideas are on https://turnmeroyal.co.uk

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TUE15th  Still Life - A vase of flowers or a flower Flowers’ visual, sensory and tactile qualities, their associations with love, femininity, and the natural world, have inspired the work of innumerable modern and contemporary artists. Ana Maria Edulescu, Georgia O’Keefe, Vincent van Gogh, Dutch flower paintings (17th century) , Edouard Manet, Paul Riley (local), Billy Showell, to name but a few

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TUE22nd   Life model -Male

TUE29th   Life model – Male

 

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TUE6th Paint in the style of Gustav Klimt. (14 July 1862 – 6 February 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods

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TUE13th Paint a scene in a Van Gogh style. E.g with Swirly skies like Starry night - From sunflowers to starry nights, Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh (1853 – 1890) is one of the most celebrated names in Western art history. In his lifetime he's thought to have painted 2,100.

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TUE20th Pointillism: characterized by the application of small, distinct dots of colour, aimed to achieve greater luminosity and colour harmony through the optical blending of hues. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from

Impressionism.

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TUE27th  Distribute Plein Aire Programme – Finish a painting started during 2023 or 2024 Ask for help with a paintingGroup End of season discussion suggestions for next programme