Gallery 2019

GALLERY 2019

December - Winter Wonderland.

5th November Abstract Acrylic week 2

Further messy play with abstract acrylics.

5th November Abstract Acrylic week 1

Thanks to Neil’s great instruction I think we’ve all produced some great results as shown below. We used masking tape over a dark background and added further acrylic layers on top. Acrylic was applied with rollers, brushes, fingers and spatulas.

8th October - workshop with Helaina Sharpley

Wow, great easy step tuition from Helaina. Everyone so engrossed we didn’t even break for a cuppa. Lots of fun had by everyone.

1st October-Quick portraits

20 mins max to sketch each of the three profiles.

10th&17th September-Pointellism

Creating a piece of Pointellism, verdict Marmite.

18th June - Pastel Demonstration by Matthew Evans

A great informative evening with Matthew exploring and demonstrating the art of using pastels on wet/dry fine sandpaper sheets.

14th & 21st May - workshops on perspective with John Harrison.

John helped us get to grips with one and two point perspective. We all worked on a piece John had prepared for us with the perspective marked in, although still challenging, but with Johns support and top tips we got there in the end.

23rd April - Create a Huddersfield Landmark of your choice in any medium but with a restricted palette.

27th March Cartoon Art with Phoenix Morris

A lovely, fun informative evening. Phoenix used the projector to guide us through a brief history of cartoon art before asking us to copy an image of Spongebob. We then had to turn the page and re draw him from memory. Phoenix then explained about drawing markers and how a character gets built and can be modified using markers. Next task was to re draw spongebob using the these guidelines.

Phoenix explained how Cartoon characteristics get accentuated, ie soft rounder forms look friendlier and harsh angles do not. We should be able to tell a character even if in silhouette, Scooby Doo characters for example. Our last challenge was to create our own character, then swap with someone else and re draw their creation.

5th March-Lindsay Norman small demo & chat.

A truly inspirational evening watching Lindsay at work.
The two pieces shown below were created to demonstrate how different forms of charcoal can be utilised to bring the owls to life. Lindsay gave us lots of incite and advice. John has suggested we all have a go with charcoal next week.

26th Feb Watercolour figures

The first 45 minutes was spent filling a page full of figures using the instruction sheet as a guide. Rest of the evening we picked dressing ideas from a hat, i.e. pregnant lady in a green jacket, wearing a back pack with brown trousers. Can you spot her??