Hangar Aquarellistas Top Act during "Route des Arts"

The Route des Arts is an initiative of the 'Pôle Touristique'  in our area, to promote the arts and the artists with all the member-cities and -villages, in several ways - open ateliers, animations, concours and exhibitions of local artists. La Roquette is this years' host village - and the opening ceremony will be in the "Maison des Associations" in La Roquette... And then:

This weekend, on 9 and 10 July, the Aquarellistas of the Hangar (Liz Douglas, Sandra Seymour-Dale, Carol Fischer, Tricia Bennett, Edith Alborni, Brenda Moorhouse, Patience Devas, Sylvie Morlière, Cathie van der Stel and Marina Kulik) fill the Maison des Associations with their very best beautiful watercolours! 

On Saturday from 12.30 and Sunday from 10am we will be delighted to see you and show and explain our work! 

It will be a colourful and interesting combination of styles, with several themes and subjects - but bound visually by that attractive and poetic transparency of the aquarelle paint!

The address:

Place José Thomas
La Roquette sur Siagne

GREAT WATERCOLOUR EXHIBITION IN GOURDON

From 20 - 26 May there's an exhibition of wonderful watercolours in Gourdon:

Hangar Aquarellistas Sandra Seymour-Dale, Liz Douglas and Cathie van der Stel show their latest and greatest in the Galerie de la Mairie, immediately adjacent to the church entrance.
The exhibition 'LA PALETTE MELANGEE' is open every day from 10am - 5pm.

You are most welcome to the vernissage on Saturday 21 May, between 2pm and 4pm:

Aquarelle - Tuesdays from 2 - 4.30pm with Marina Kulik

The aquarellistas are back to working hard (and smart), helped by verveine, cookies, music and just a tiny sip of pink champagne! Our theme du jour was 'beaches'! Here are some of the -excellent-  results, and notice how different the subject is represented in the results:

 Carribbean hammock by Rita - our new girl! She has talent that's for sure. 

It will be finished tomorrow - can't wait to see the result!

 Avril started with the 'Transat' and a reflection of the clouds in the sea. 

Though not at all finished, it is already super interesting!

This is such a strong piece - by Sandra. Also a beach, but a completely different take. Love it!

 Brenda started the happy beach chairs with dunes in the background.

Painted in her lively and lovely style - we're looking forward to seeing it finished

This is Christiane's practice watercolour, she will make another one with the same scenery plus 2 kids climbing the fallen palmtree... Great and serious way of working! And very promising already...

 This is Bev's. You may have guessed, because it really is her style. Happy chairs for everyone!!

Tricia hasn't been in France for a while - and came back with a vengeance!!! What a su-perb beach... Note that there is still a lot of masking fluid in this painting, it will look even more interesting when that is rubbed off and replaced with other colours or left white...

Liz works on a painting that is related to the beach - the marina next to it... Still lots of masking on that one, but with these colour combinations not much can go wrong, brilliant!

Superduper soda bottles by Edith (to take with you to the beach?)

 A typical endeavour for Cathie: a lot of delicate robin's eggs in a very fine little basket with loads of detail... Only Cathie dares to start this - and be confident that she'll finish it too!!!

EXHIBITION AQUARELLISTAS IN LA ROQUETTE

You may have heard it on the radio, or read it in Nice Matin: From 3 - 31 August, Eleven Hangar Aquarellistas have a beautiful exhibition of their amazing watercolours in the mairie of La Roquette. The work is selected on quality and beauty, hence the title 'Festin pour les yeux' (or 'eye candy').

Participants are Cathie van der Stel, Sandra Seymour-Dale, Edith Alborni, Agnès McLaughlin, Liz Douglas, Avril Howard, Costanza Rock, Beverly Ellsley, Patience Devas, Brenda Moorhouse and yours truly - Marina Kulik

The exhibition is open every day from 8am - 4pm and there is a vernissage on Friday 7 August from 6.30pm.You can look forward to seeing works like these - and many more...

Aquarelle - Tuesdays 2 - 4.30pm - with Marina

 Agnès started an aquarelle with two trompettists - here still masking fluid-only...
Can't wait to see the progress

 Last Tuesday - a regular watercolour session, with tea, Adèle songs and a theme: 'Music'

Avril started a painting of an antique 'Bandoleon''

Brenda finished her 'overgrown house' and started with this harp-front, that looks promising...

Edith was really inspired by the subject and started this one - doesn't she make the colours sing!!

Costanza used to play the violin and still has one at home. You can see from this excellent painting that she understands the instrument!

And then on top of all that there were projects that were finished:

Agnès's Princess

Brenda's Overgrown House

Cathie started a new watercolour in her 'Jewelry' series - this is a bracelet in a birds' nest, so delicate

Edith finished her painting and I recommend you to click on it so you can see all of it, because there is so much in there! 

We saw the shape of a girl sleeping, a dreamy cloud (in the shape of a man, or a child, or something else), an egg that is pushed out, and towards a hole, a landscape, a close-up on the beach, an abstract and more...

Liz wasn't happy with this painting for some time but I think she's nailed it!! 

Eyecandy by Sandra!! What more can I say - Festin pour les yeux!!

And the very last dots and strokes complete this strong 'n stunning seascape, also by Sandra

Tuesday 23 June, 2 - 4.30pm - Watercolours with Cathie

 Tiny  people crossing a bridge

Tuesday 23 June, Marina in Holland, Cathie took over! Anna Karin worked with us after a long absence due to sad personal circumstances. She will go to Sweden for the summer, and left us with these beautiful interesting and symbolic small paintings...

Looking at the light by Anna Karin

Agnes is back, she started another portrait which in the next stage she will get more detail and a bit of pen. What an expression! Can't wait to see the result!.

 Brenda's overgrown house is one step further - looks so real and mysterious!!

 Edith will add more cracks to the rocks to finish her beautiful delicate painting.

 Liz experimented with gauze tape - click on the picture to enlarge it - and discover the effect. Actually quite interesting and useful!

  Liz almost finished her beach umbrellas.

Sandra moved on with her tulips - interesting stuff happening, it is in the final stages if you ask me

 

Sandra's Seascape has changed dramatically! How I love that orange! 

As you can see from the aquarelles above, Cathie did a good job as always, so a great big fat THANK YOU to her for taking over again!!! We're back to normal now until end of July - Watercolour class stops in August and resumes second week of september...

Aquarelle - Tuesdays from 2 - 4.30pm with Marina

Bev has been working on a dark interior with a window - the light coming from outside. In this stage, the background is still light, but the picture is quite strong already!!

Theme for last Tuesdays' Aquarelle session was 'overgrown with ivy'. No one finished yet, but Bev and Brenda's work is already so interesting I really want you to see it. It will completely change next session!

 Brenda's painting of an overgrown place - this will change enormously in the next version - there will be lots of contrast, and probably accents in feltpen. Can't wait to see the result!

  Avril's Walasse Ting-cat, now finished. I love it, the personality of the cat and the clear lines, typical for Avril's style

Cathie is working on an important commission. So fragile and interesting.

(The Hangar blog will of course have the scoop on this later - watch this space!!)

 A fa-bu-lous wave by Edith. The colours are stunning and it is so transparent!!

 Edith also started on a new picture - at this point it is still quite abstract, but already very strong and interesting!

 Linda has the Hangar watercolourbook now and will go through the exercises. Here's her 'washing' result, that went really well - now on to the 'Volume'!

 Liz started with an eye candy painting! Not finished - expect stunning sharp shadows and admire the bright'n happy colours that are already there!!

 

This is another strangely interesting painting by Patience, with lots of pigment and it triggers a lot. It has words, like 'Marie-Josephine' and 'Limoncello'  and dates, and hearts and more in it. 

Click to enlarge and enjoy more!

 Sandra worked on two brilliant paintings. Above a bout of bad weather coming up. Thunder and lightning coming this way. Donker. Below the fragile tulips and a beautiful patterned 'curtain'. It is almost finished and the thing is to keep the delicacy!

And I sign off with: I am so proud of you!