Thursday Sculpture Class

Every Thursday a regular bunch of us come to the Hangar to do sculpture with Christie. During the school holidays - occasionally some of the students bring along the youngsters in the family - that is, if there aren't too many other artists working. It's always fun to have young people around because they work on totally different things from everyone else. The first 3 pieces of artwork are from 3 of the youngsters.

The theme this term has been animals. Hanne has chosen cats. Below is one of her works made in white - high fire - clay.

Hanne's cat

Dom continues to work on his tools. This tme he had tools in white clay which he painted before firing, using a black slip with vinegar.

Dom's tools

Tracy has a series of abstracts in black clay - here is the latest addition

Tracy's abstract

The black clay starts out brown when we work with it. It is a clay that contains quite a lot of grog - so it will never give a smooth surface. It fires well and goes completely black when fired at 1200 C.

If you like what you see - why not come and join us on Thursdays 10-16 after Christmas ?

Tuesdays 9 - 12: Atelier Libre Oil-Huile with Nelly van Hijfte

Tuesday 16 December - a wonderful day in the oil class with birthday celebrations of Jacqueline. A lighthearted fun morning, with chapagne - and of course a lot of painting!

 

Jacqueline's painting - with balloon decoration. 

 

The birthday girl with Charmian and Gordon.

 

 Social gathering; starting with coffee in the morning-- Nelly being the hostess

 Serious stuff - Claudie and  Francis 

And then... Jacqueline's birthday celebrations at the bar.

  Nelly and Claudie continue in serious conversation

Arie arrived, looking good!!

Francis and Matthew; I am sure ; it is not True!

By Marina Pino

Aquarelle - Tuesdays from 2 to 4.30pm, with Marina Kulik

Optical Illusions 

 How's that for depth... By Avril

 That's what watercolours are all about - suggesting stuff, like 'depth' and 'volume' and 'light'... To stress that a little, we challenged ourselves, concentrating on the 'illusion' side...

Liz just started a series of four optical illusions

And Anna-Karin is suggesting this deep hole... 

Cathie

Hands suggested by changing the shape & direction of stripes

Edith

Agnès (no paint yet - but lots of masking fluid!)

Agnès also created this fabulous Winter/Christmas picture with a strong illusion of light

Lo-ve-ly subtle, fluffy Christmas tree by Christiane

 Suggestion of transparency - what a great watercolour-in-progress by Christine

The shadow needs a bit of enhancement - and than it will be an illusion of a tear! By Dom

 Dom's Dewdrops

 

Gourdon... A cubist version, now finished - by Liz. I love its' composition!

And Anna-Karin's dreamy forest is finished now. Delicate and poetic, as only she can!
 

EXPO Marina's 'Ever Evolving' @SMART in Nice

Most of you know my watercolours, but I'm also painting in acrylics. Interested? Until 30 December, my non-watercolour work is on display in the showroom of Smart in Nice (the big glass tower you pass on the way to Italy). Less than one minute from exit 52. 

 There are big roses, fingerprints and the newest version of my 'Ever Evolving work of art'.

That's my 'monumental, conceptual and strictly autonomous' painting in mixed technique (oil and or acrylics), constructed from several canvases, large and small. These canvases are ’stand alone’ and also fit together. Whenever a part is sold, it will be replaced with a new part, that is different, yet ‘fits’ again. At this moment it is over 6 meters long, and exists of 35 parts. I had to work like crazy to replace 2 of the 'banners' that sold in the last exhibition in Théoule. But it worked out, and if you happen to pass by exit 52 of the A8, you're most welcome to come in and check it out!

If you can't make it: in January it will be exhibited again, in La Roquette, together with the sculptures of Patience aka 'DEVAS'. I will let you know about that and the vernissage on 8 January in a later post... Because of the setup of that space, it will look more like a 'mix', like  this:

AQUARELLE - Tuesdays 2 - 4.30pm with Marina

Anna-Karin's stunning background with trees

Tuesday 2 December

Last Tuesday Catherine and Dom did their very best on a variety of starters' exercises, and the results (although they are just meant to practise!) are very promising:

Catherine painted 3 background exercises on one board! 

Existing forground - background first - flowing background. 
Not finished, more later, but well done already

Dom worked hard on the spheres - and is now hooked! Next time - dew drops for him...

So we worked on 'backgrounds'. Either combined with a detailed foreground - or background only. It certainly inspired Cathie and Sandra who both painted their own version of 'stormy weather'. 

Cathie

Sandra

Avril and Christiane chose a background with a detailed foreground, and both chose a tree - and that's where the resemblance ends, isn't it fun to see the differences!!

 An African landscape by Avril 

(note how she makes the background go on behind the tree)

A fairy-tale tree coming out of the clouds by Christiane...

All ends of branches will be animal faces!

South French Village by Liz (forgot to ask which one) with blue-sky background

she used small torn-off pieces of masking tape for the whites, which gives a very playful effect.

Christine will work on a background too - but has started a (very complicated) foreground! This is going to be gorgeous (but will take a few more sessions to complete)!

And then last but certainly not least, a couple of projects were finished!

 Anna-Karin's Red Cabbage

 Avril's Jellyfish

Edith's Jellyfish

It was another fine class! With music (thanks to Avril) cookies (thanks to Nelly), tisane and coffee - and a great atmosphere. I'm ready for the next one... Wanna join? Pop in to have a look! Starters program available... Materials provided.

EXHIBITION Chris Savage in La Kavanou Valbonne, 2 - 20 December

From last Tuesday 2 December, until 20 december, Hangar member and live-class enthusiast Chris Savage is exhibiting her new art collection in wine bar la Kavanou in Valbonne!! They are open from 5pm - 11pm. Chris will be there this Friday (5 December) to explain and have a drink (or two) with you...

Aquarelle Tuesdays 2 - 4.30pm with Marina Kulik

 

Starters exercise 2 by Catherine - well done!

Last week there was a board meeting right after our Watercolour session, there was no time for a line-up and I promised the aquarellistas to make my remarks in the blog... and then funnily enough there was not so much work to take pictures of...

☺☺

 

 

Jellyfish by Avril. Way before the end of the starters program, she really gets the behaviour of the watercolours! More transparency of the Jellyfish can easily be achieved by adding a bit of the background wash to the blue... Let's try that next session!

 

 Meduse par Elia- ongoing project, but especially the flowy stuff is fab!

 Jellyfish by Liz (do you see the funny faces?) they are SO transparent!!

Sunset on Antibes by Liz

Love it, Good work!!