Here are details about our two sessions this month. It’s interesting to see what everyone is working on at the moment at home, at adult education classes and at other art groups too. If you would like photos taken of your recent artworks then bring your paintings along to a session so they can then appear in a blog post. Or you can send photos direct to Steve or Tracy with details about your pictures.

Wednesday 13th July – 7 to 9pm – Summer flowers in a ceramic or glass vase

There will hopefully be a lot of flowers in your garden (or local florist or supermarket) to draw or paint. Bring them to the session and put them in a ceramic or glass vase and include it in your picture. If it’s a ceramic vase try and get both sides even, it’s harder than you think. If you use a glass vase then paint how light reflects off the surface, how the water refracts the flower stems and try to give the see-through item solidity.

Saturday 23rd July – 10.15am to 3pm – ‘Do your own thing’ at Chalk church

There’s a slightly later start time of 10.15am.

Please don’t arrive before then and block the lane. Thankyou!

We return to our summer venue at St.Mary’s Church in Chalk. The church and ‘Monet’ bridge are popular subjects to paint, but you don’t have to. Many of us have painted these many times, so instead start any project for our Open Day (Saturday 26th November) or bring paintings you want to finish.

Nigel, the vicar, popped in to our last session at the hall to talk to Steve and Tracy about an art event to hopefully be held at the church in April 2023. It’s early planning days but we hope that members will be able to paint to a theme suggested by Nigel and our paintings exhibited inside the church. Take some photos of the church and grounds as reference photos and as soon as Nigel decides on a theme, we will let you know.

If it’s raining we still meet at the church as there’s an indoor room with tables and chairs for us to use. There’s a large, free car park, a toilet, and tea, coffee and biscuits as usual.

Please bring along a folding chair or stool if you intend to paint outside and a packed lunch too. If you can only make the morning or afternoon, please come along and join us for a couple of hours.

Any donation to the Church Fund is appreciated, thank you.

If you’re a new member and haven’t visited Chalk Church before, please have a look at this map to see where we’ll be meeting.

***** A date for your diary – Saturday 27th August *****

We usually return to Chalk Church for our August Saturday session, but we are instead going to be meeting at Rochester Cathedral! Kay works for the Dean of Rochester Cathedral and asked if M&C could meet there. Permission has been granted for us to use a private garden at the back of the cathedral, but you will be able to pop inside to sketch (not paint) too. More details will be given in August.

Numbers are needed in advance as we will be required to wear visitor lanyards. Please email Tracy (at her usual email address) if you are interested in visiting Rochester Cathedral on Saturday 27th August. Thank you :o)