New work February 2012

A fabulous range of paintings and details form the class, done since last week. The colour palette is very strong across all the work and there is a real a strength in each composition.  Next week we start our major project for this term: a mixed media roof top scene project. 

Main Project Briefing

The information to help you prepare for the main project of this term is in the resources pages on the right entitled "Mixed Media/Textures Project Briefing" - its the last one in the list.  We will also discuss this again in our next class 23 February 2012. 

Details of dry ground projects

This week we continued developing our dry ground projects. Here are the details chosen by the group in their peer to peer critiques session:

We are back!

The new pastel painting course at LYndhurst Centre, Gateshead is now back and running. Everyone from last time has come back apart from two to whom we send our best wishes for speedy recoveries - we hope to see you both in the summer term. 


We started the course by creating tint charts which in themselves are both beautiful to look at and really useful reference materials. We then moved on to our first new project - how to use tinted highlights in a still-life. This was done at home. Our latest project is how to use a dry ground to block in our designs and focus on our palette. 


Here are some examples from the dry ground:

Anne

Anne W

Bob

Christine

Harry

Janice

John

Leonard

Moira

Pat

Peter

Rose

Sue

Here are a few paintings folks have been doing since last term, and some of the tinted highlight still-life paintings from the first new project: 

Anne 

Bob

Bob

Christine

Christine

Harry

John

Leonard

Moira

Peter

Sue