Model Drawing on Monday mornings - with Marina

Last Monday we had a session with the beautiful Marie. It was as always very inspiring, and required a lot of concentration. Everyone was exhausted after 2 hours of intense observation, but the results were very good. We drew quick poses, one minute and two minutes:

 We drew 10-minute poses:

And spent the last hour drawing Marie in a reclined pose:

Coming Monday (16 March) there's another session, this time with Melisandre, another favorite of our group...

NELLY!

Last Tuesday was a glorious day in many respects!
Most important, it was a significant birthday for our beloved teacher of the oil group Nelly 'TIM' van Hijfte... Her class, some aquarellistas and the Hangar board threw her a little party with presents, bubbly and nibbles... After a nice birthday speech by our president Ton van Schijndel, and vice-president Charmian Murley, Nelly promised to stay at least another five years - which makes us all very happy! Here are some pics:

Spring is in the air...

 Last Tuesday the weather was so fabulous, that Christiane and Anna-Karin decided to make a watercolour of spring flowers instead of our theme du jour...

  Crocuses by Anna-Karin, not even finished but already fabulous!

 Mimosa by Christiane - you can almost smell them...

The theme du jour by the way was 'reflection of a female figure' and most aquarellistas started with it, did good work, but not far enough to show here yet.

 The one by Avril is so cool! We agreed, it has a 'fifties' atmosphere

 And how about this cute little girl by Edith... A fairytale...

 Start of a beauty, reflection not yet there, by Sandra

And then the Animal-section:

 

  Edith's cat with interesting knot

Cathie's back from SA - she warmed up with these (wooden!) fish - they look amazing - and quite real

 Edith created a stunning driftwood elephant, combining the 'pattern' of drift wood with a 'real' elephant...

 Agnès can't be with us at the moment - but that doesn't mean she is not watercolouring! Here's another wonderful wild animal from her hand - combined with driftwood - he's on it ☺

Exposition in La Napoule, now running until March 15

A lot of color in a bright place!

Here we are , come on in

Hope to see you there, Sylvia and Imme

Model drawing on Monday mornings

 Good work in last week's Model session with Mélisandre! Have a look at our drawings!
Below them is an invitation to a full-day drawing workshop in les Beaux arts de Cannes...

 Here's the info about the workshop: 

For the agendas: Marie Boquet, our model of coming Monday and a very good artist herself, will host a live model day on Saturday 14 March (in Les Beaux Arts de Cannes, 2ème rue de Bari, in le Suquet) see poster below & ask her about it Monday! 
Marie Boquet, notre modèle et très bon artiste elle-même, organise une journée de modèle vivant le samedi 14 Mars (dans Les Beaux Arts de Cannes, 2ème rue de Bari, dans le Suquet) voir affiche ci-dessous & lui demandez lundi!

Aquarelle - Tuesday 2 - 4.30pm, with Marina

Driftwood & Manga...

Last Tuesday we let ourselves be inspired by driftwood... It was not easy - but the results were impressive. Also, we had two guests, Manon and Christine, who brought their own subject - also inspiring and defiunitely something we will one day give a try: Manga... a typical Japanese style of comic book drawing...

Costanza took a simple  example and made this exciting aquarelle out of it!

 Christiane created a colourful and real-looking piece of driftwood

 Christine combined watercolours and felt pen for this excellent worn wood

 Edith (work in progress) created a driftwood-elephant

 Great colours and shapes inspired by driftwood - by Sandra

Avril's driftwood - in progress

And then there were two guests: Christine (L) and Manon (R) - they brought their own subject: an Egyptian beauty in Manga-style... Difficult drawing and then watercolours, it was the first time they used it - and wow - they did great!

 Christine

 Manon

'Our own' Christine also gave Manga-drawing a go - and came up with a really good one:

Liz and Sandra didn't go for the Manga's but painted beautiful females with a touch of spring...

 Liz

Sandra