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