All meetings take place on the 3rd Thursday of the month, 7-9pm at
Whetstone Parish Council Rooms,
Cemetery Lane, Whetstone, Leicester LE8 6LL
Membership £30 per year Guests Welcome £6 per meeting
New Programme for Sept 2019
- Sept 19th Angela Gaughan – Animals How to do Fur/Eyes -Acrylics
- Oct 17th Phil Biggs – Landscape – Watercolour
- Nov 21st Change to advertised: Estelle Robinson – Pastel
- Dec 12th Note: one week earlier than normal: Peter Barker – Frosty Winter Scene – Fast Drying Oils
2020
- Jan 15th Note: Wednesday Evening: Malcolm Cudmore -Drawing/Sketching – Graphite
- Feb 20th Leanne Ellis – Landscape – Oils / Oil Markers
- Mar 19th Amanda Jackson – Small Human Figures – Acrylic
- April 16th Laura Donaldson – Subject to be confirmed – Oil Pastels
- May 21st Elaine Kirk – Pet Portraits – Pastels
- June 18th Ingrid Hill – Floral Display – Pen/Wash/Mixed Media
- July 16th AGM – Rupert Cordeux – Marina Boats Watercolour
Aug 2020 Summer Break
Some of the artists which have visited Blaby Society of Artists
Fraser Scarfe – Landscapes – Acrylic
Rosemary Mafrici – Colour mixing to create realistic art in Oils
Peter Dalziel – Animal Portral
Helen Neave – Drawing with a paint brush – Watercolour
Rob Wareing – Human Portrait
Di Lorriman – Garden Scene – Pen & Wash
Vic Bearcroft – Wildlife – Pastels
Marguerite Armstrong (Chairman) Stepped in at the last minute with a lovely painting of swans in water-soluble oils
Andy Shore – Street Scene in Watercolour
Helen Neave – Watercolour – Spring Flowers
Jane French – Workshop – Portraits in Oil Workshops
Stephen Coates – Watercolour – Reflections
Tim Fisher – Acrylic – Poppies in Provence
Sarais Crawshaw – Pastels – Wildlife
Sketching and Drawing Workshop
Richard Freer – Discussing our members artworks Laura Donaldson – Oil Pastels – Woodland Scene
(Friday evening workshop) – Sue Sturgess – Fluid Acrylic Art
Hashim Akib – Acrylics – Urban Landscapes
Rupert Cordeux – Internal Buildings – Watercolour
Tom Shepherd – Acrylics – Colourful Birds
Julia Kent – Mixed Media – Turkey Cafe, Leicester
- Claire Botterill – Watercolour – Still Life Compositions
- Diane Sinclair – Pastel – Red Deer Stag
Andy Shore – Continental Street Scene – Watercolour
Demonstrates a Continental Street Scene in Watercolour. Andy showed us how to capture light in the scene and stressed the importance of working loosely to start, with a gradual build up of detail and colour whilst keeping the washes wet and loose.
Ruth Gray – Atelier Interactive Acrylics – Street Scene
Fiona Peart – simplified flowers in watercolour
Internationally published artist Fiona Peart is well known for working in water-soluble media, her style has developed over thirty years as a professional artist, exhibiting and selling work regularly.She has written seven practical art books and is a regular contributor to the Leisure Painter magazine.
She studied full time drawing and watercolour at the Flemish Academy of Fine Art in Leuven Belgium, successfully graduating and being awarded the ‘best achievement’ prize in 1990. This led to her exhibiting in various Galleries including The Mall Galleries in London. Fiona has a reputation for being an inspiring and enthusiastic tutor offering workshops in the UK and abroad. We are delighted to welcome her back.
Heather Wharam – Collage
Heather Wharam is a mixed media artist with a BA(hons) in Fashion and Textiles and an MA in Fine Art
Drawing is always the underpining element of her practice, in which she uses a range of media, from textiles to ceramics to found objects to stitching, to create her expressive work. Examples can be found on her website: http://www.heatherwharam.co.uk
Estelle Robinson – Graphite Techniques
Estelle now works as an artist on a freelance basis, but has been a hobby artist for over 30 years specialising in portraits. She studied art at Coventry Technical College for 2 years after leaving school followed by a year-long Foundation in Art & Design at Wolverhampton Polytechnic. She also worked at a printers in Coventry for 2 years training as a Graphic Designer.
Estelle likes to work with graphite, coloured pencil and pastels. Her work is very detailed and she particularly likes to draw animals, enjoying the texture of the fur and trying to capture eye expression.
Estelle says: ‘With portraiture it starts with the eye, if I get that right then everything else seems to follow. I love fur, from the gleam of a horses coat to the flowing hairs of a long haired dog. My hope is that the observer will want to reach out and stroke the subject’. Her work can be viewed at http://www.estellerobinsonart.com
- Michael Edwards took us on an exploration of abstraction, demonstrating dendritic art, a form of printing between perspex sheets, and acrylic ink abstracts on mount board created with fine water spray.
- Tas Severis wowed us with his vibrant acrylic landscapes, with the paint applied directly to the canvas from the tube and blended by palette knife. After the initial layer, the paint was added to the knife to add more layers of detail, colour and texture.
- Peter Barker explained the anatomy of creating an oil painting in his demonstration of a river scene in fast-drying oils. He stressed that in the early stage of creating the painting, tone is more important than colour, and then used just 3 colours (Cobalt Blue, Permanent Rose and Cadmium Yellow) plus Titanium White to create all the colours needed to complete the picture.
Past Workshops
Jane French – Still Life in Oils
Ingrid Hill – Loose Floral Watercolours
Ingrid’s workshop is a follow on from her demonstration of last year to Blaby Society of Artists members. With this in mind the workshop will be a loose floral watercolour using lovely fluid washes, we will also be using cling-film and salt to produce some interesting textures.
Helen Neave Workshop Winter Scene with Helen Neave (Workshop)
