Events

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 19^th Angela Gaughan – Animals How to do Fur/Eyes -Acrylics
Oct 17^th Phil Biggs – Landscape – Watercolour
Nov 21^st Jenny Aitken – Seascapes – Acrylic
Dec 12^th Note: one week earlier than normal: Peter Barker – Frosty Winter Scene – Fast Drying Oils

2020

Jan 15^th Note: Wednesday Evening: Malcolm Cudmore -Drawing/Sketching – Graphite
Feb 20^th Leanne Ellis – Landscape – Oils / Oil Markers
Mar 19^th Amanda Jackson – Small Human Figures – Acrylic
April 16^th Laura Donaldson – Subject to be confirmed – Oil Pastels
May 21^st Elaine Clarke – Pet Portraits – Pastels
June 18^th Ingrid Hill – Floral Display – Pen/Wash/Mixed Media
July 16^th AGM – Rupert Cordeux – Marina Boats Watercolour

Aug 2020 Summer Break

Past Meetings of 2019

Jan 17^th Fraser Scarfe – Landscapes – Acrylic
(Venue change for this meeting only) Blaby Civic Centre, 22 – 24 Leicester Road, Blaby, Leicester LE8 4GQ (no parking onsite)
Feb 21^st Rosemary Mafrici – Colour mixing to create realistic art in Oils
Mar 21^st Peter Dalziel – Animal Portraits – Pastel
April 18^th Helen Neave – Drawing with a paint brush – Watercolour
May 16^th Rob Wareing – Human Portrait – Oil
June 20^th Di Lorriman – Garden Scene – Pen & Wash
July 18^th AGM – Vic Bearcroft – Wildlife – Pastels

Past meetings of 2018

January 11th – Marguerite Armstrong (Chairman) Stepped in at the last minute with a lovely painting of swans in water-soluble oils
February 15th – Andy Shore – Street Scene in Watercolour
March 15th – Helen Neave – Watercolour – Spring Flowers
March 17th – Jane French – Workshop – Portraits in Oil Workshops
April 19th – Stephen Coates – Watercolour – Reflections
May 17th – Tim Fisher – Acrylic – Poppies in Provence
June 21st – Sarais Crawshaw – Pastels – Wildlife
June 30th – Sketching and Drawing Workshop
July 19th – Richard Freer – Discussing our members artworks
August Summer Break – No meeting
Sept 20th – Laura Donaldson – Oil Pastels – Woodland Scene
October 5th (Friday evening workshop) – Sue Sturgess – Fluid Acrylic Art
Oct 18th – Hashim Akib – Acrylics – Urban Landscapes
Nov 15th – Tom Shepherd – Acrylics – Colourful Birds
Nov 24th – 25th Annual Exhibition 10.00am – 4.00 Thistly Meadow Primary School
Dec 13th (New Date) Rupert Cordeux – Internal Buildings – Watercolour

Some of the artists which have visited Blaby Society of Artists

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 this time to demonstrate 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 is a mixed media artist with a BA(hons) in Fashion and Textiles and an MA in Fine Art.

Heather Wharam – Collage

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 2017

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)