Aquarelle - Tuesdays from 2 - 4.30pm with Marina

 

 Sitting Nude by Sandra Seymour-Dale

One of the superb aquarelles for our show in Chateau des Demoiselles

 Corks by Cathie

 

Grapes with curly bits by Agnès

Liz is working on several paintings at the same time.*
 

*That way you don't waste time as one can dry while you paint another

 Other, interesting work to be developed, by Cathie

The basic washes of Elia's painting. It will have such a warm glow when it is finished...

 This small fun aquarelle was created by Tricia, a new Aquarellista! 

 Also a couple of aquarelles that were not related to wine or 'demoiselles'

Bougainville by Anna-Karin

'Sun behind the door' by Mieke

Tricia also painted this one, with added pen and wax (the white on the avocado peel and pit)

Emily worked on two exercises for her 3d afternoon: the spheres with highlights and shadows (objective: suggest volume). She did a great job on them and is determined to practise this a lot while she is in Canada...

  

And the other exercise: washing off the colour (check!) and then creating volume using the spheres-technique or patterns (in progress)

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Aquarelle - Tuesdays 2 - 4.30pm with Cathie van der Stel

Wine, Women and song

 

A typical 'Chateau des Demoiselles'-bottle by Bev - cheese coming up by the look of it

Last Week the Aquarellista group was led by the wonderful Cathie van der Stel! She suggested to work on themes for our upcoming exhibition in Chateau des Demoiselles: "Wine" and "Women" in all possible ways.

As you can see above and below, it was picked up very well by everyone (not all artwork was photographed - but believe me it all looked so good! you can see who was the teacher du jour)

By the way - these are all projects in progress and they will end up being small paintings in our successful 'same-frame'-format...

 Elia B.'s Vin et souris

 Liz's inspiration from the word Wine

Wine according to Sandra - and a very beautiful hand. Well done!

 

Emily just joined the group. She's a bold user of colours as you can see here and she will no doubt blend in perfectly with the rest of the group after she's finished the starter exercises...

Coming Tuesday yours truly will be absent again and you can look forward to another lovely session with Cathie! From the 8th of July onwards everything is back to normal and FYI: the last watercolour class before the holidays will be on 29 July... We start again 2nd week of September (but we'll be working on our expo and be in touch before that)

Aquarelle-Tuesdays from 2 - 4.30pm with Marina

Agnès

Last week the Aquarellistas proceeded with the clouds - this time we didn't follow the youtube instuctions, but used our own insights (and lots of kitchen paper). As you can see below and above, that led to better results - we're better when the initiative is ours, so much is clear! It was a lovely afternoon and we welcomed 3 new painters, and also we had Mieke (who has been absent for serious reasons) in our midst, which was great! And what's more, she had not forgotten how to paint...

Sandra

Beverley

 Elia B.

 Elizabeth

 Jean

 Jean

Jean

Apart from the clouds, there were a couple of projects that needed attention - and which worked out very very well:

 Edith

 Liz

 Liz

Mieke

 Emily

The painting by Emily, is her very first watercolour. It is Exercise Number One of our book - meant to show the differences and similarities with colour-mixing and colour-layers, and she did a near-perfect job... I have high hopes for her!!