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This month Tina demonstrated how to produce a ‘deconstructed’ portrait using charcoal on water colour paper. The paper she used was A2 Cass Art – a really white 200g paper and she also used charcoal powder (good tip – you can make your own homemade version by placing...

We welcomed Rick into the fold – the weather outside was dark and cold, Happy aye we to listen to this man, who was going to tell us how it all began Poetry and Art and a wonderful collaboration, bringing together the Black Country nation But the gremlins had other...

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...

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....

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...

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 technology now!...

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...

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...

In  the 4th November session we decided to have a little bit of fun with Portraiture. Time to loosen up, mix the materials up a little and not worry about the likeness in our portrait. Instead, we enjoyed the energy and freedom of the continuous line. All high risk...

Tonal Demonstration with Sarah Stokes (For more information and advice Sarah can be contacted via her website https://www.sarahstokesartist.co.uk )  We had a fabulous turnout for - one of our members even zooming from a rainy Spain! We were certainly in for a treat....

The Japanese ‘Floating World’ of the Edo Period Keith’s presentation was a fascinating exposition of how artists recorded every aspect of the ‘Floating World’ of the Edo Period in Japan (1615- 1868). Japan was going through a relatively calm period in its history....

During these difficult times, the opportunity to draw a model from life has become almost impossible for the Artist. However, the next best thing is a tutorial and demonstration from Tina Willis Jones via Zoom. Tina is an expert in rendering the human form and she...