AGM on February 28th.

Put it in your diary.

The future of FHAS is in your hands. Come pay your subs and show some support and the Society will continue to work at promoting and helping artists grow.

     

The alternative is a little hard to imagine.

With your support we'll organise outings, get in a live model, provide instructive videos and give encouragement to all. With the water crisis, we may not be able to provide tea and biscuits every time, but we'll offer enthusiasm. And in the case of attendance at this year's AGM there will be wine and juice, courtesy of Ann Zwets and others.


To make a Society thrive, it needs new ideas,  assistance and a hands on approach.

That is up to you.

DVD night with a Hazel Soan classic.

This lady always brings in the crowds even if it is only a DVD.



Wednesday 24th was the DVD evening and many members and some visitors turned up to see the DVD that Hazel Soan made some years ago about painting animals in Africa. Apt for all of us here in South Africa.



She started us off with painting flamingoes and jackals, and moved on to zebra and elephants, finishing with a great picture of elephants at a waterhole.










Hazel assures us that watercolour 'is very forgiving' and not at all difficult. Of course, in her hands it would appear that way... but such DVDs are an inspiration and I for one got out my watercolours on return and started some animals.

How about you?

Next meeting is the workshop on February 13th when three of the society's artists will be painting the same still life set up in three different media. That's you chance to see a variety of approaches and techniques - not to mention styles - that the same subject can be interpreted in.

See you there.

Thanks Rob for the group photo and to Hazel for the clips from your video.

KIRSTENBOSCH and SIMON'S TOWN LIBRARY

Hands up those who have been to see the exhibitions at these two popular venues?

A good artist, as well as an aspiring artist, has much to learn from his peers and visiting the local galleries is a brilliant way to see what is going on, and indeed to learn what sells.

Don't you want to sell some of your best works?

Get out there, dear fellow artists, and be inspired to create even more innovate and interesting works.