WINTER PROGRAMME 2024-5
The winter programme of member's activities takes place on Tuesdays at Beare Green Village Hall, 3 Merebank, Beare Green, Dorking RH5 4RD.
WINTER PROGRAMME JANUARY - APRIL 2025
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Date |
Session |
Notes |
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7th Jan
10 -1.00 p.m. |
Still life Using our new art materials - presents from Christmas. We’ll also hand out small canvases for the charity paintings to be sold at the Spring exhibition – theme is “Spring.” |
Bring your own still life or a project and preferred medium. |
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14th Jan All day workshop £10.00 fee 10 - 4.00 p.m. |
Experimenting with mixing media Led by: Clare Bridges
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See notes below. |
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21th Jan 10-1.00 p.m. |
Hands and feet Led by: Frank Gambin |
See notes below. |
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28th Jan
10 -1.00 p.m. |
Thinking big Using big brushes or painting big or small. |
Bring your preferred medium and the biggest brushes you have. |
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4th Feb All day workshop £10.00 fee 10 - 4.00 p.m. |
Painting interiors in water mixable oils Led by: Denise Doran
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See notes below. |
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11th Feb
10 -1.00 p.m. |
Still life or Bring your charity canvases to paint |
Bring your own still life or a project. Bring preferred medium. |
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18th Feb
10-1.00 p.m. |
Using acrylic ink: glass and reflections |
Bring acrylic ink, brushes, pencils, canvas boards, heavy watercolour or cartridge paper. |
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25th Feb
10 -1.00 p.m. |
Developing creative ideas from a photo/picture |
Bring a selection of photos and your preferred medium. |
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4th Mar
10 -1.00 p.m. |
Abstracting previous work Bring in one of your paintings to work from |
Bring preferred medium. |
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11th Mar All day workshop £10.00 fee 10 - 4.00 p.m. |
Allotments in pastels Led by: Rick Holmes
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See notes below. |
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18th Mar 10 -1 p.m. £5.00 fee |
Rembrandt…. why self-portrait? Ronnie Ireland - lecture |
Look in notes below for a brief summary. |
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25th Mar All day workshop £10.00 fee 10 - 4.00 p.m. |
Fractured painting Led by: Tiffany Budd
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Materials list to follow. |
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1st Apr
10 -1.00 p.m.
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Simplify patterns in nature A follow on from last week’s workshop. |
Bring your preferred medium and the biggest brushes you have. |
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8th Apr 10 -1.00 p.m. |
The importance of using sketch books Preparing for the summer programme. |
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NOTES
Experimenting with mixing media: Clare Bridges
- Short Description: An opportunity to explore an adaptable method used by artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Degas, Klee and William Blake, which can produce unexpected, subtle, dramatic and painterly artworks.
- Essential materials: any paper except ‘glossy’, acrylics, and /or oils, rags, zest-it, brushes, sponges, palette, paper towel, water pot.
- Optional materials: watercolours, charcoal, pastels, pencils, pen, if you have a flat metal or acrylic sheet (A4 size or smaller) or gel plate that would be great but not essential as I will bring some.
Hands and feet: Frank Gambin
- Bring plenty of paper and a selection of drawing materials.
- You will need a photo of an interior scene. It could be inside your own home, garage, shed or somewhere else. The important thing is to have interesting lighting so there are areas of light and shade and strong shadows. So, the light could come from a lamp or from the window.
- I will be painting in water mixable oils but you can bring any painting materials that you wish to use.
- I use Winsor and Newton Artisan Water Mixable Oils Mainly. I paint on boards that have cut to size and then gesso.
- Bring any painting surface that you would like to use.
Brushes
- If using traditional oils, us odourless solvent only.
- Newspaper and sheets to protect the tables and floor.
Pastels – Allotments: Rick Holmes
Images to follow for you to print out and bring.
- Easel – If you have one.
- Soft Pastels – I will bring some oddments along on the day not oil pastels.
- Pastel Pencils – black and white.
- Newspaper – to protect floor and work benches.
- Acrylic ink magenta, dark blue, light red, yellow ochre.
- 2” printing roller.
- Masking tape or clip.
- Board to work on.
- Fine water spray.
- Hair dryer.
Rembrandt - why self-portrait?: Ronnie Ireland
The greatest artist of his time, and one of the greatest of all time, Rembrandt gave us many marvellous works - subject pictures, portraits, landscapes. Uniquely though, he chronicled himself unsparingly throughout most of his career, with around 80 self portraits from youth to old age. Why?
Fractured painting: Tiffany Budd
In this exciting workshop, we are going to find out how Tiffany Budd creates her fractured artwork. The subject we will work on is ‘fish and water,’ and we will explore how to evoke their movement, colour and light into your semi abstract art piece. Using coloured pencils, you will be taught how to blend and use coloured pencils to their best effect.
Materials:
· Photographs of koi, goldfish or any fish! I will also have some to hand.
· Smooth white paper.
· 6H graphite pencil to lightly draw the outlines.
· A good selection of coloured pencils - Tiffany will also have some available for you to use.