PROGRAMME FOR 2024 - 2025
OCTOBER
TUE1st Bring in your plein air work for a ‘show and tell’ Then paint a favourite from your sketches
TUE8th Painting a portrait – a person or animal in any media
TUE15th Members to bring in a favourite object or a fruit to make a group still life – there are pots and other bits in the shed that can be used too.
TUE22nd DEMO Pete Spencer will give a demo of his current processes in Acrylic. Focusing on some of the more interesting bits: Underpainting, Extraction, Oil Glaze Transparent and Opaque in Acrylic and various tools he uses then how to add the Final Touches
TUE29thPlaytime collage – mixed media. (eg: Artists: Tom Quigley and Picasso) Bring various items to use (and share). Try on a canvas or watercolour paper. You will need Scissors, glue (pva) or glue-stick, recycled old paintings or old book pages, string, fabric, music, old rubber stamps. Brayers are useful when sticking down – some in our shed but please clean when used.V
NOVEMBER
TUE 5th DEMO Dawn Jordon – Oils. An award-winning artist – Dawn’s website explains that she is a plein air and studio artist painting in oil who is inspired by light and most happy whilst striving to capture the beauty and ever changing light of nature, focusing on the tonal contrasts
TUE12th Painting Patterns: e.g: Pieter Cornelis Mondrian, after 1906 known as Piet Mondrian. He was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
TUE19th All things Oriental : Inspiration from the traditional art form originating in China and medieval Japan known for their glorious colour choices
TUE26th Paint a night time Christmas Scene. Preparing for Christmas Cards – any media
DECEMBER
TUE 3rd Paint with anything except a brush : try a credit card, sponges, fingers, use tissue paper, bubble wrap on anything else that will make patterns.
TUE10th Christmas party time and Festive Meet-up. Bring any work from the summer – a chance to share ideas, ask questions and show sketchbooks and/or paintings/drawings etc. Enjoy the last meeting before new year with a mince pie and punch
JANUARY 2025
TUE7th Inspirational Painting – real or imagined! Cherry will lead this for 2 weeks. A what to bring list is attached. This will be similar to January 24 with a new ‘action sheet’ for a fun filled group experience and opportunity to paint intuitively, working together, following instructions without preconceived ideas or plans. Leave any inhibitions at home and find your inner voice.
TUE14th Inspirational Painting – real or imagined! Part 2. As above but you can change colours
TUE21st Birds Bees, Bugs and/or Butterflies Paint in any media28TH Winter Weather - Painting or drawing in any media – try something new
FEBRUARY
TUE4th Painting or drawing ducks and chickens and/or farm animals
SAT8th AGM ST LUKES HALL 12.30AM Please try to come – this is important for members to be part of. Ideas for future events and bring a painting for the competition. 3 subjects: Portraits or Animal, Landscape or seascape, Abstract or Still Life. Plus give Ideas for Plein Aire programme
TUE11th Painting In the style of Beryl Cook OBE – 1926 – 2008. See www.ourberylcook.com for ideas
TUE18th A self-portrait in the cubist style. Begun in Paris, Cubism is an early-20th-century, revolutionary art movement. Influencing painting, visual arts, artistic innovations, music, ballet, literature and architecture. Subjects are analysed, broken up and reassembled in an abstract form.
TUE25th Sgraffito day. A form of decorative art, Acrylic or Oil. You scratch through a surface to reveal another layer of colour (or pattern) beneath. This is a great way to build texture and create patterns. You can use the end of a brush, stick or palette knife to create these scratches. Suggestion: prepare an under colour or colours beforehand. Maybe use an old painting
MARCH
2025TUE4th DEMO and WORKSHOP – Cherry will show you her process of creating watercolour landscapes when using old store/bank cards. You can have a go after the demo. You will need a large piece of thick watercolour paper – two can be cut from one full size sheet, a large board to tape paper to, a store/bank card, a water spray, 5 tubes of contrasting watercolour, a large mop brush only if you have one. Some materials will be available to use (e.g watercolour tubes) and paper to buy.
TUE11th? day 2 of above
TUE18th MIXING things together : to see what works for you : Combine subject matters, mediums, techniques, or colour palettes. Put colours together that you've never considered before, or add an abstract animal to one of your “usual” abstract floral paintings or visa versa. TUE25th Paint in the style of Art Deco or Art Nouveau. Art Deco and Art Nouveau are art movements that emerged in reaction to major world events. Both presented a radical, modern alternative to the classic imitative style of traditional art. Art Deco drew inspiration from Aztec, Central American, and Egyptian art introduced to the western world during the early 20th century. It was also heavily influenced by modernist Cubist art, known for its sharp, angular, and geometric designs. In contrast, Art Nouveau used natural imagery inspired by the curved and floral patterns found in Japanese art. Unlike most traditional art movements which often focused on scenes from the past, the Art Nouveau movement portrayed the present and future. Art Deco vs Art Nouveau: 7 Differences (Period, Themes & More) (masterworks.com)
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.
TUE8thPaint 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
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
TUE22nd 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 methodsTUE29th Possible life model – to be confirmed
MAY
TUE6th Life model week 2 – to be confirmed
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.
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.
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