Here is Steve’s finished painting from Saturday. He painted this standing at his easel in the car park. It was hard work in that heat but doesn’t it look good. Well done Steve.

Brenda made an initial ‘sketch’ of her beach huts by using all types of interesting papers to make the shapes and to get an idea of colours. A photo of this can be found if you scroll down to our beach huts session on the last Wednesday. The first photo is the one.

Then Brenda enlarged her idea to make an embroidered wall hanging. Using a sewing machine for traditional stitching, she also moved the fabric around in freestyle mode to create the patterns you can see in the sand, sea and sky. Brenda finished off by hand-stitching on some tiny bird shapes, a fabric rose and a small confetti shell as hut decorations.

Isn’t it beautiful?

SEPTEMBER

Wednesday 11th     7-9pm    –    Remembering Renoir

Impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir died one hundred years ago, so let’s celebrate his life by painting in his style of using vibrant light and saturated colour. Renoir painted people, landscapes and still lives, so choose which you would like to paint.

Saturday   28^th      10am-3.30pm  –   Nature

A broad subject that covers a multitude of ideas. From the tiniest insects to the largest animals on land or sea, the smallest leaf to the tallest tree, the narrowest stream to the largest ocean, your garden to the Grand Canyon or Antarctic, and anything in between.  Nothing man made, so no plant pots, no vehicles, no buildings.  

The fee for today will be £6.  No need to book.

OCTOBER

Wednesday 9^th     7-9pm  –   Autumn…a walk in the woods

Think of autumnal colours…yellow, orange, red and brown, with a hint of green still around.  Paint a woodland scene with a path running through the trees, children running delightedly through a pile of crunchy leaves, a dog exploring the trees, or paint fallen leaves in detail.

Saturday  26^th    10.00am-3.30pm   –   Watercolour workshop with William Newton

William Newton joins us today to paint a landscape or seascape.  Final details will be given nearer the time, but do have a look at his website at … www.williamnewton.com

If you’d like to attend, please check first that you are free that day.  Then email or phone Susan asap, on the phone number or email address you have been given, and she will add names to the workshop list in the order received. If there are more than 25 names, then a waiting list will be used. 

(Please don’t use the comments box on this blog to ask for a place, as messages can take days to appear) 

For the last workshop we had 29 people wanting to attend, but only 23 came on the day.  If you decide you can’t come, please tell Susan asap, as letting her know the day before is a bit late unfortunately.   If you’re on the waiting list you may well get a place, but if you plan something else then let Susan know by phone or email, so she doesn’t have to phone around. Thank you!

The fee for today is £13, which includes the workshop and the hall hire.

Here is Fay’s delicate painting from last night

Here are our paintings from last night’s workshop.

There are believed to be around 20,000 beach huts in the UK. While we may not have quite that many here we do have a good selection of colours and and styles. Different mediums used include ink, painting on silk, collage, watercolour and acrylic.