by Annette Hughes | Feb 9, 2021 | Member News
This month’s demonstration from Tina focused on using the Zorn Palette to create skin tones for our portrait work. The Zorn Palette is named after the Swedish portrait painter Anders Zorn (1860-1920). With just four colours you can explore mixing skin tones and create...
by Annette Hughes | Jan 26, 2021 | Member News
On Wednesday night Ed treated us to his story of his very busy Lockdown. Ed has a passion for both drawing and the history of art. Although having no formal art training, he always made time for these passions even whilst working full time and bringing up a family....
by Annette Hughes | Jan 10, 2021 | Member News
Lockdown has provided us with the opportunity to create portraits via Zoom and using photographs. Knowing the sitter and something of their personality can also add value to the process. It can be strongly argued that the best portraits are those taken from a ‘real...
by Annette Hughes | Jan 4, 2021 | Member News
Art Historian Stella Grace Lyons, who is an Arts Society Accredited Lecturer, presented to the Society a special Christmas Lecture entitled ‘Painting Winter: Snow Scenes in Art’ via Zoom.This was our first Webinar – we are so getting used to this...
by Annette Hughes | Dec 7, 2020 | Member News
We have been so lucky to be able to offer a life drawing focus to our members as part of our Programme. We are even more fortunate that the very talented Tina Willis Jones agreed to lead the demonstrations which have been both interesting and informative. I felt that...
by Annette Hughes | Nov 24, 2020 | Member News
This evening we were delighted to welcome Jessica Cooper who joined us from her studio at the Newlyn School of Art in Cornwall Jessica has been an artist all her life and has had a successful career for many years with her paintings which capture a mindfulness and...
