The pictures submitted for the RED theme will appear in a couple of days on the blog and on the Instagram page but meanwhile hopefully you are anxious for a new challenge!
And I've picked a sunny dryish week to suggest the next theme! But knowing the peninsula, it might rain sooner rather than later.
With that in mind, the next theme or challenge is RAIN - and that can be interpreted in any way you like.
To encourage you, here are some great rainy photos.
Hazel Soan did some great umbrella and rain watercolours if you have her books.
Included here are some images 'borrowed' from the internet but go and surf for yourself or sit there when it pours down and watch. Take a snap. Feel the atmosphere and try and reproduce it.
I particularly like the paintings by Leonid Afremov, a Russian Israeli, who died last year in his last home town, Cancun, Mexico.
He cleverly used monochrome to give the impression of a scene lost to the elements but brought out a few hints of colour.
He was following in a tradition and so I have pulled out a famous French Impressionist, Gustave Caillebotte's famous rainy painting too.
You don't have to go out and get wet to attempt this theme (though we'll be VERY impressed if you do!!).
It can be rain drops on plants (as in this pencil painting left) and in this photo below, or on window panes and, even on a car. Have you seen how rain drops group - especially on a well waxed car's metalwork - on a car's hood or bonnet?
These can provide food for some marvellous abstract creations.
Work can be done in ANY medium so please remember to tell us what you used, and the deadline for submitting your works is 15 July 2020.
WORK TO BE EMAILED TO NONINICHOLS@GMAIL.COM
And I've picked a sunny dryish week to suggest the next theme! But knowing the peninsula, it might rain sooner rather than later.
With that in mind, the next theme or challenge is RAIN - and that can be interpreted in any way you like.
To encourage you, here are some great rainy photos.
Hazel Soan did some great umbrella and rain watercolours if you have her books.
Included here are some images 'borrowed' from the internet but go and surf for yourself or sit there when it pours down and watch. Take a snap. Feel the atmosphere and try and reproduce it.
I particularly like the paintings by Leonid Afremov, a Russian Israeli, who died last year in his last home town, Cancun, Mexico.
He cleverly used monochrome to give the impression of a scene lost to the elements but brought out a few hints of colour.
He was following in a tradition and so I have pulled out a famous French Impressionist, Gustave Caillebotte's famous rainy painting too.
You don't have to go out and get wet to attempt this theme (though we'll be VERY impressed if you do!!).
It can be rain drops on plants (as in this pencil painting left) and in this photo below, or on window panes and, even on a car. Have you seen how rain drops group - especially on a well waxed car's metalwork - on a car's hood or bonnet?
These can provide food for some marvellous abstract creations.
Work can be done in ANY medium so please remember to tell us what you used, and the deadline for submitting your works is 15 July 2020.
WORK TO BE EMAILED TO NONINICHOLS@GMAIL.COM
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