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

Live model on Monday - with Marina

 We had a great session last Monday! The 'starters' are no longer starters, there is so much progress! Also I was delighted to see Kyriakoula and Maria back from their travels and busy schedules - and they were both in excellent shape...

The morning itself doesn't change much! We had Melisandre as our model and we started with a 'warming up', one-minute poses, in which she slowly turns around. Not everybody is equally good at this, but because there's absolutely no time to think, participants often surprise themselves with their accuracy! (see above). After the one-minute poses, the two minutes all of a sudden seem very long...

After the warming up we draw a couple of poses for 10 minutes and because we started early we could squeeze out three poses before the coffee break!

After refreshing tea coffee and healthy cookies, we have a long pose - until 12 o'clock. Some use that time to get a lot of detail in, shadow, background, resemblance, others walk around and draw the model from various positions, and then there are some who like to experiment... With colours, with paint or other materials... Very interesting results - I love to see so many different styles!:

 

 Wet silver

 Very subtle knife and spoon by Christine

 Again, we had a fruitful session, this time with the subject 'cutlery'... As you can see in this post, the aquarellistas were at their best once more with this difficult project! There is the drawing, interesting darks and lights, perspective, reflection and metal-look, and then the waterdrops on the silver... a lot of challenge all in one painting.

I am proud to say that it worked out very well, some are even finished. (And I am happy that my knives and forks have their 15 minutes of fame!)

  

Double spooning - an almost graphical take on things by Avril

 

 Gorgeous start of an interesting still life, how-does-she-do-that-every-time?? by Cat

 

 Another graphical representation of two spoons, this one by Costanza

 Is this plate half-full or half empty? What's on it? Is it broken or just covered... Edith's art evokes questions!

 Guest-Guus created a quiet painting out of the still life...

 Liz had her own example with her, even more complicated, but up to now it looks like that will work out very well. The dark dots on the lemon will go: they are dots of masking fluid (also in the reflection)

Sandra worked on her reflection in the lake - girl with flowers. I'm happy she did, the more I look at it the more I love this painting...

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...