As a quick preface and a finally a postscript, there are a couple of irritating errors in this blog which appear as blue squares with a question mark.
IGNORE THEM and hope your web mistress does better next time! Apologies.
We had a number of interesting items this July and August and people had fun trying out things that were not within their usual range of subjects.
Did you look at the blog last month when Ann Zwets also kindly hosted a paint out on what turned out to be a lovely day?
Frances Johnson organised a 'therapeutic art' workshop demonstrating how colour and freedom of brush stroke can be so very liberating. 15 members attended and left feeling more uplifted than when they arrived!
We also had a morning of sketching in Simon's Town which was fun.
Did you look at the blog last month when Ann Zwets also kindly hosted a paint out on what turned out to be a lovely day?
Frances Johnson organised a 'therapeutic art' workshop demonstrating how colour and freedom of brush stroke can be so very liberating. 15 members attended and left feeling more uplifted than when they arrived!
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Thank you Frances.
Sue Green also organised a workshop on drawing birds. It's goal was to help artists recognise shapes and colours when they saw birds in the garden or out in the countryside enabling them to make better drawings.
Sue brought along a computer and two screens with a recording of a workshop run by nature illustrator John Muir Laws and played these to the members present. She brought computer paper so that we could make quick sketches as we watched the documentary.
This was about learning to make quick drawings, not about finished works and it was enlightening for us all. It is worth looking up this artist and seeing other teaching clips - such as trees - that one can watch at home or download from YouTube.
Thank you Sue.
We also had a morning of sketching in Simon's Town which was fun.
