Don’t forget at this Wednesday’s 23rd March, workshop at the Cedars Centre, Castle Road, Rayleigh, we will be having two films to view.
The first is Hazel Soan’s ‘Watercolour Rainbow’ – in a series of studio exercises and demonstrations she shows how to get the best from the three primary colours.
The second is ‘ A Personal View, Landscapes in Watercolour’ by David Curtis in which he paints three Cornish Coastal scenes.
Look forward to seeing you all there.
We could not have chosen a colder evening to host a life drawing workshop, with frost threatened for early in the evening the heating was pushed up high in the hall ready for our sitter.
There were around eleven people taking part in this workshop and our sitter arrived promptly for us to enable a full evening’s drawing or painting. There were different mediums being used, pastel, pencil or charcoal and acrylics, all going to look very different by the end of the evening.
For the first half of the evening we asked that she would sit with her back to one half of the hall so that those who wished to paint a back view were able to do so, whilst the other half could do a front view. We all got started very quickly, with all our easels poised and paints ready and waiting for action. For an hour we all worked away more or less in silence, Sharon, our sitter being perfectly still for us.
In the second half of the evening, Sharon moved so that we all had a different view of her and we nearly all started a different pose.
A good evening of painting with plenty of concentration and good results by some of us.
The Workshop scheduled for Wednesday 25th March 2015 will consist of a film by James Fletcher Watson commencing at 7.30 pm.
All members and guests are welcome to participate.
James Fletcher-Watson is regarded as one of the leading British watercolour landscape painters of his time.
He was a member of The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour and the Royal Society of British Artists and exhibited at the Royal Academy, and received an award at the Paris Salon. He wrote many articles and several teaching books on watercolour painting, including The Magic of Watercolour and Watercolour Secrets. Three videos (now available on DVD) have also been made, in which he demonstrates how to paint out of doors as well as in the studio.
At 7 pm sharp, there were 10 members of Rayleigh Art Group all waiting with their easels up, paper or canvas at the ready and their chosen medium eagerly waiting to be used.
We were lucky enough to have a live model for the evening and we were all very keen to get started.
Emma was an excellent model for us, she is a very pretty and an experienced model and sat still for us, patiently waiting to see what we were producing.
We stopped for a tea break and then some of us had a second attempt at drawing.
This was a really an interesting evening, a brilliant chance to have a go at life drawing which of course not many of us get a chance to do very often and most of all, great fun.
Here are just a couple of pictures produced by some of us.
Report Courtesy of Cathy Newton and Photos Brian Coppard, Cathy Newton and Colin Mossman.
Saturday art group called ” Brush Strokes ” would like to invite any RAG members to any of their workshops or demos.
Please contact Bob Wilburn at rwilburn@btinternet .com for details.
Rayleigh Art Group will be hosting a Workshop with Pauline Grove on Wednesday 13th August 2014 at the Cedars
Centre, Castle Road, Rayleigh commencing at 7.00 pm sharp.
The subject will be a Still Life including glass in Watercolour.
This workshop is open to all RAG Members but places are limited and so members should confirm with Val Belverstone if they wish to book a place. Guests are welcome and should use the ‘Contact Us’ form on the Rayleigh Art Group Web site www.rayleighartgroup.wordpress.com as soon as possible. There is a small cost of £5 per head.
Pauline Grove began painting watercolours as a child, but it wasn’t until the mid 1990’s, after her children had “flown the nest” that she was able to commit time to combine her love of painting and her interest in flowers. She began by copying floral studies from a series of antique prints but soon became confident enough to work from the real thing, quickly developing a style of her own that was both vibrant and bold.
Pauline began showing her work at exhibitions in and around her home town of Rayleigh in Essex where they soon became noticed and in demand. She has been a longstanding supportive member of Rayleigh Art Group.
In 2000 she was diagnosed with breast cancer and during the months of chemotherapy she immersed herself in her hobby and she is convinced that her painting made a significant contribution to her making a full recovery. Since then Pauline has earmarked a percentage of her sales as a contribution to the Breast Cancer Unit at Southend Hospital and it was this that motivated her to stage her first one-woman show in 2001, exhibiting more than one hundred of her paintings in her home. Her personal exhibition has become a bi-annual event and, due to its size and popularity, has been moved to the premises of a local business, Ipeco Holdings in Southend. In 2009 around 300 visitors attended through the weekend where more than 250 paintings were on display. The next one woman exhibition will be in 2015.
Over the years Pauline has moved into a variety of subject topics and treatments, from landscapes and townscapes to still life and portraits, producing work in watercolour, oils, acrylics, pastel and mixed media.
Pauline works from her Rayleigh studio that is set in beautiful secluded woodland gardens, surrounded by trees, flowers and wildlife that give her an everlasting source of inspiration for her works.
Pauline is a member of The Society of Women Artists, The Society of Botanical Artists and The Society of Floral Painters and regularly exhibits with them.
The next workshop to be hosted by Rayleigh Art Group will be on Wednesday 22nd January 2014 at the Cedars, Castle Road, Rayleigh, commencing at 7.30 pm. The workshop will be an ‘Untutored Life Drawing with Model’ – why not pack your art bags, come along and have a go in your favourite medium.
Rayleigh Art Group will be holding a Workshop/Trouble Shooting Clinic on Wednesday 27th November 2103 at the Cedars Centre, Castle Road, Rayleigh.
In addition to a normal workshop evening, all members are welcome to bring along a picture you are struggling with and get some advice as to how overcome your problems.
New members are always welcome and guests with a small charge can also participate.
The next Workshop is on Wednesday 11th September 2013 at the Cedars Centre from 7.30 pm onwards. All members and their guests are welcome to join us for an evening where you can meet with other members and exchange ideas and comments whilst at the same time having a social chat.
Rayleigh Art Group have arranged a Summer programme for 2013, details of which can be found on the Calendar Page.
However, a few significant dates to note for your diary are:-
June 26th – A Cheese and Wine evening with a Game of Trivia commencing at 7.30 pm sharp – just for fun!! (Please contact Corrinne Scott for tickets)
July 10th – Outdoor painting trip with a location to be arranged – Meet outside the Cedars Centre at 6.00 pm where transport will be arranged
July 20th – An invitation from Southend Art Club to the Cottage at Butler’s Farm from 2.00 pm – At the gate there is a sign for Southend Art Club, take the Farm Road DO NOT turn left to the house.
August 14th – Evening Garden Party commencing at 4.00 pm at Corrinne Scott’s House – Please let Corrinne know if you plan on participating as soon as possible
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