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

Date

Session

Notes

 

25th Feb

 

10 -1.00 p.m.

Developing creative ideas from a photo/picture

Bring a selection of photos and your preferred medium.

4th Mar

 

10 -1.00 p.m.

Abstracting previous work

Bring in one of your paintings to work from

Bring preferred medium.

11th Mar

All day workshop £10.00 fee

10 - 4.00 p.m.

Allotments in pastels

Led by:  Rick Holmes

 

See notes below.

N.B. Full fee is payable even if you can't stay for the whole duration of the workshop.

18th Mar

10 -1 p.m.

£5.00 fee

Rembrandt…. why self-portrait?

Ronnie Ireland - lecture

Look in notes below for a brief summary.

N.B. Full fee is payable even if you can't stay for the whole duration of the workshop.

25th Mar

All day workshop £10.00 fee

10 - 4.00 p.m.

Fractured painting

Led by: Tiffany Budd

 

Materials list to follow.

N.B. Full fee is payable even if you can't stay for the whole duration of the workshop.

1st Apr

 

10 -1.00 p.m.

 

Simplify patterns in nature

A follow on from last week’s workshop.

Bring your preferred medium and the biggest brushes you have.

8th Apr

10 -1.00 p.m.

The importance of using sketch books

Preparing for the summer programme.

 

 

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.
Painting interiors in water mixable oils: Denise Doran

 

  • 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.