Santa's helpers...December 2010

Well okay perhaps not Santa's helpers, more his cheeky elves? Here are the brave souls who made it through the snow to class for the final session of 2010. From left to right, standing in front of their paintings: Belinda, Peter, Terry, Bob, and Harry. And below the group photo are some of their paintings in close up nearly finished.

Belinda's pastel painting study. Shows great freedom of colour.

Pete's acrylic painting. Shows great variety of brushwork.

Harry's large scale acrylic painting. Shows great tonal control.

Shipley Project November 2010 - back in the studio

Progress by the group on their Shipley Project. Now we are back at the Lyndhurst Centre working from our notes, sketches and studies, and digital images of the originals for the next two weeks. The first two are by Belinda who is working from a Redon painting, followed by Terry, Michael, Bob, Ruth and Harry:

Shipley Project November 2010 - the work

Images in process by the group, studying directly from originals in the Shipley Art Gallery collection:

Shipley Project November 2010: at work

The group at work in the Shipley Art Gallery:

12 November Shipley Project visit

For the next two weeks we are studying at the Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead. We are working directly from paintings in the collection.  Everyone has produced well thought-out studies and notes to create a foundation of understanding about the painting they are using for their Shipley project. Here we are at work, in the previous post you can see our work so far.

12 November Shipley Project studies

For the next two weeks we are studying at the Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead. We are working directly from paintings in the collection. This week we followed  a process of preparatory study using line and tone thumbnail sketches. Next week we start painting. Everyone has produced well thought-out studies and notes to create a foundation of understanding about the painting they are using for their Shipley project.


Harry's tone thumbnail study.

Michael's line thumbnail study.

Bob's thumbnail studies in-line: line, varied line, tone.

Pete's tone thumbnail study.

Ruth's line and tone thumbnail studies.

Terry's line, varied line and tone thumbnail studies in-line.

Len's line, varied line, and tone thumbnail studies plus notes.

Belinda's line, varied line, and tone thumbnail studies plus notes.

5 November

Harry's nearly completed detail project painting. 

Colours and textures are getting much more interesting.

Bob's Armistice Day project painting at the ground and 

underpainting stage.  This one looks like it could change a 

lot during the making.

Peter's completed detail painting. Very effective mood and 

lighting effects. Great palette.

Len's finished detail painting. Lovely tonal range in the colours. 

Very strong design elements.

Terry's nearly completed flower picture showing very good 

tonal awareness in this very challenging subject.

29 October 2010

Terry's finished Lindisfarne acrylic. Good adjustments made 

to sky and water to create a cool open feel.

Terry's new picture, a challenge to achieve whites and greens 

of subtle variation. Good start. 

Ruth's new picture, painting the ground colours. Good to 

see the bold simplicity at this stage.

Harry's detail picture project. Great drawing and design features. 

Foreground work suggests the colours will become more interesting.

Bob's detail project painting with wonderful scumble 

technique and colour relationships.

Peter's detail project painting is developing nicely. 

Good strong moody palette.

Michaels' detail project painting shows good scumble technique 
to create mist and light.

Len's new painting showing the early ground stage. Good to 

see bold simple design at this key point in the picture making process. 

Great start on the sky.