12" x 24" - Poppies - under guidance - painted to match a large painting of Trudies. Michael did a similar one too. Trudie wanted two vertical format ones..
Latest efforts first
2010
Work in progress: just about to start a new painting:
12" x 24" - Poppies - under guidance - painted to match a large painting of Trudies. Michael did a similar one too. Trudie wanted two vertical format ones..
16" x 12 " A Swan - from a similar painting - under guidance - completed March 2010
A Pastorale Scene - Sue's best yet, she's much better than she thinks. Late 2009
Ashridge - this photo doesn't do the painting justice, it's much better than this.
For the next period of 2008 we did lots of little exercise paintings of trees, walls, water etc to learn the various techniques.
Our next series of five two hour sessions started at the beginning of May 2008. The above painting isn't finished yet! - 2009 09 16 - now finished and given away but no photo of latest painting
Sue's fourth painting, 762 x 408 mm. Another five session series starting in February 2008.
We didn't have a photo to base this one on and Peter changed the direction, composition and tone of the picture every week. We had to work on it at home.
We were to have had another series before Christmas but sadly, John, who owns the studio - it's a room above his shop, lost his wife, so Peter cancelled the lessons out of respect for John.
Our second series of only five sessions this time, was in the autumn of 2007, and my third painting, 410 x 310 mm, is the result above.
They were both done on our first series of eight sessions starting in February 2007.
This is the second one, about four two hour sessions.
Actually it's Michael's but mine was much the same but we don't seem to have a recoed of it? We ran out of time and had to finish this at home.
We were assured that whatever our ability we'd be delighted with the results as so far everyone had been. I didn't believe them but it turned out to be true!
Above is Sue's first painting, 508 x 406 mm. Took three, perhaps four, two hour sessions.
The teacher, Peter Clayton, gives us a photograph. We draw six squares on the photo and then on the board and using our judgement rough out the shapes in pencil.
He tells us which colours to mix and which area to apply them too.
We paint wet-on-wet as the painting develops.
In spring of 2007 we started to go to oil painting classes. Michael was really intersted in water colours but these classes were available at a studio half a mile down the road at Earnshaw Bridge; so we decided to have go.