WA - Holiday Postcard

In case you are new ( welcome) or have forgotten ( no, I know you didn't), WA is the Wednesday Afternooners, aka the West Winch Art Club. We have a programme to follow, or not, which is what the title refers to. I took holiday postcard to mean 'paint small'.

 Cromer Lighthouse  7" x 5"  Watercolour + Ink

 Happisburgh Lighthouse  5" x 7"  Watercolour + Ink 

 Hunstanton Lighthouse 5" x 7"  Ink + Watercolour

 

Unknown Lighthouse 7" x 10"  Watercolour + Ink

from a painting in the book Sea and Sky by Arnold Lowrey

 

I'm not swayed to paint small more often, and these need a lot of 'tiddlng' to make them passable, but I'll admit to having a very enjoyable afternoon....as usual...must be the company!

WA - Pass the Object

 

We all took along something Christmas-y to draw. We had a set time and a different medium for each one, and then the object was passed to the person to our left.

 

Graphite and Sharpie.

Different sized drawing pens with left hand (I'm right-handed)

Contour drawing looking at paper.

 Watercolour

Contour drawing NOT looking at paper.

Then Judith showed us the 'magic' painting with watersoluble black ink. If you add more water to a drawing after the ink has dried, the ink separates into it's component colours...blue and yellow!

 

Love this one!

 



HAS Life

 

I made it to Hertford Art Society Life Drawing on Saturday. You can see the rest of my drawings on my other blog, here.

WA - Pen + Wash

I thoroughly enjoyed this afternoon. I discovered pen + wash to be a very good medium for nudes and hardly believe I haven't tried it before. I really like it, and wish I had more control! But that is easily learned with practise.



WA - Mixed Media

I forgot to take my reference photo! I used acrylics, ink, and oil pastels.  I learned that I cannot make it up, and although I had a good idea what I wanted to do, I got very confused and couldn't understand why it didn't work! All became clear when I returned home........I had printed two pics and had been trying to incorporate them both in the same painting!!

I have made amends....well....so far so good.

WA

The brief was to paint a building in ink + wash. This is Sheringham Station, the end of The Poppy Line, painted from a photo taken last summer. I had a vision of a colourful, loose watercolour! Shows how out of practice I am.

No-one this week wanted to publish their work and I have to say that I am disappointed! Jacqui did make a scrummy lemon cake though!

Beach Huts 12" x 8" MM

I had a wonderful time at the WA today, slapping on the paint and ink with pen, brush, twigs and leaves...oh, and fingers. And we had cake, AGAIN! Scrummy!
Don't forget to leave a comment on my previous post.....you could be the proud owner of an original Sharon masterpiece!

The Last days Of The Lacuna Cabal

There is a competition to design a book cover on the Saatchi Gallery Online website.

That is what I have been doing today. Would you buy the book?

Obviously, this drawing is not for sale.