Mark your 2008 Calender!

January is another busy month:

January 12 - Painting Saturday (a week later than usual)

January 16 - Still Life Drawing 7 pm at Sir John High School Art Room

January 21 - Monthly meeting at SIR JOHN HIGH SCHOOL ART ROOM

January 26 - 4 hour class with Janice Daly (Registration at monthly meeting)

December 17th meeting

We had a great meeting. The Show and Tell is really great. We had drawings from our first "Still Life drawing" evening. We also watched a video and painted how light stricks an object. We learned about direct light, indirect light and reflective light.

See the show and tell images below. Thanks to all who brought in their work. As always it is so inspirational!

Marcella's Still Life drawing results

Shawna's intensity chart and her garlic on black and white
Shawna's Pears

Direct Light, Indirect Light and reflective light lesson

Shawna is doing more colour and value charts
Pat J's drawing from our still life evening
Pat J
Lynn's painting

Painting Saturday

Five members of the YWS came to Painting Saturday during this busy season. We had a great day of building our skills. I am pretty pleased with my painting and will bring it next meeting on December 17th. See you all then!

Lynn studying image!

Pat J working on houses.

Marcella exploring northern animals.

I can't wait to see the final results of this Painting Saturday! Remember to bring the paintings for the meeting.

Still Life Evening

Seven members of YWS spent a great evening setting up and drawing.

Thank you Betty for sharing your room.

Lynn

Astrid
Betty
Pat J.
Marcella
Natalie
Shawna

We plan to do another session in January and February, watch the newsletter and the blog for more information!

Painting Saturday - Dec 1

Hi all
This Saturday is our next Painting Saturday. I will be there at 10 am until close to 4 pm. I hope to see you there!

Shawna

Still Life Evening - Tuesday November 27

We are at Sir John High School Art room. Go in the NACC doors, that will be opened for 7pm. Go up the stairs and turn left and the door is right there. I will put a sign out for people to find us.

Betty has a lot of things there, but remember if you have something special bring it along.

I haven't been able to find a digital projector, so we will offer that service on Saturday during the Painting Saturday time.

I can bring the cdr discs if you don't have any, but I would perfer that people bring their own.

Also bring your drawing stuff and painting stuff. Then you can practice drawing and painting what is actually in front of you.

This is all about learning, not perfection!

November Meeting Show and Tell!

Thank you to all the members who brought in their paintings from Rolf's class and from their experimenting at home! It is so inspirational!

Sample from the beginner session which resulted in learning how to blend and be generous with paint and water.

Pat J went home and found a way to create a piece that looks more like Rolf's. Great experimenting!

Rolf's Landscape class results below

Shawna's experimenting with colour charts again!

Drawing with Bev Anderson

Natalie doing the first exercise. Amazing there was no stress and the exercise was totally fun!

7 members take advantage of a Saturday morning to begin to develop drawing skills.

Bev checking out Loreen's drawing.

Drawing Class November 17

Call Shawna to register for a 4 hour class with Bev Anderson. This class is for beginners. Come to the class where we will start learning a new skill that will help our art work.

Suggested books that I like

If you have a book that you would like to recommend to other members, please e-mail me and I will put it up on the blog.

Jan Kunz - Painting Watercolor Portraits that Glow

Charles Dunn - Conversations in Paint

Jeanne Dobie - Making Color Sing

Betty Edwards - Color

I like this book but she uses acrylic paint which doesn't completely translate to watercolour paint.

Penny Soto - Painting Glowing Colors in Watercolor

Betty Edwards - Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Rolf's Class Participants!

Class photo

Gord

Lesley

Loreen

Roya

Pat A.

Angela

Bev

Dianne

Jane

Joan

Heather

Daryl

Pat J

Marcella

Lynn