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

Rolf's Class

We had a fun weekend learning about how paint mixed will separate, how to paint on very different surfaces and deeping our understanding of the medium of watercolour painting.

Learning the basics of the colour wheel.

Step by Step landscape painting:

The finished landscape!

Beginner Drawing Class

Bev Anderson is willing to teach a beginner drawing class between November 15 to the 30th. It will be a Saturday class. Watch for more info to come, once we get some dates lined up.

Announcement:

On December 1st, which is our next "Painting Saturday" we will be doing Still Life set ups. We will photograph them and help people to transfer the images. I have a number of ideas for that.

So at the next meeting find some images of Still Life set-ups that you like and bring them to the meeting!

See you soon
Shawna

Beginner Session Oct 25 or Nov 8

On October 25 or November 8 (both Thursday evenings) at 7pm at NUP I will be guiding a beginner session where we will look at paper, brushes, how to do a wash, how to mix colours, how to make a colour chart and things like that. This is an evening where you don't bring any supplies, they are brought by me. We will be watching a dvd and working through the lessons.


The class cost 10$ for the evening, with a 20$ supply fee. Paint, Paper, Brushes and so on will be provided.

If you are interested in one of the nights (both are the same just different dates) please contact me. You can e-mail me at this address or call me at home 920.4290

This is a session for all levels, you can come for a refresher course if you want

Pleine Air Adventure!

Susan, Pat A & Heather wearing the proper clothing.

Lynn painting!

For our June meeting we had our first attempt at "On Location" painting. It was an adventure! It was mighty cold and mighty windy.