News from Bibbi!
Our friend and aquarellista Bibbi Isaksson, who left the South of France to go back to her homeland Sweden, has picked up her brushes again!

 

 

 



To get started, she took a class with the famous Swedish watercolour painter Anders Wallin:

checkout http://awallin.com/ to admire his work.

 

 

And here's what she's been creating herself:

 

 

 

Your work looks so familiar - and at the same time so very new, Bibbi!!

Go for it! And keep us posted ☺

Aquarelle Tuesdays, 2 - 4.30pm with Marina Kulik

Spring is in the air!

Below a couple of paintings created last Tuesday...
My computer urgently needs a doctor but these pictures make me so proud, I wanted to post them first !
They are full of character, style - and spring...

 

 

 

Aquarellista Bibi Isaksson (now living in Sweden) visited and worked with us - we all agreed it was fantastic to see her again, she hadn't changed one bit and she is still a very good painter!

 

 

 

 

Merry Christmas to all of you!

Until 10 January the Aquarellistas won't come to the Hangar for their weekly 'Zen' Tuesday afternoon.

We had our last gathering on 20 December and it was cosy as always, and they gave me the most wonderful gift, a beautifully wrapped handmade Christmas card, with tiny delicate aquarelles on it, put together and made into a 'whole' by Sandra Seymour Dale... I was very touched and also very excited that I now actually have an original collection of some of the aquarellistas' work in my possession!!

'Small Guardian Angel' by Bibbi Isaksson

Ball & Tree by Edith Alborni

Xmas puppets by Cathie van der Stel

Christmas Rose by Brigitte Jansen

Wicked wish by Sandra Seymour-Dale

Small Christmas apple by Anna Karin Fast

Fun in the snow by Agnes McLaughlin

Snow Man by Liz Douglas

Christmas quartet by Lesley and Roly Bufton

Robin by Helene van der Kroft

 I'll use my weeks-off to frame this wonderful gift!

Aquarelle Tuesdays 2 - 4.30pm - Marina Kulik

Bye bye Bibbi!

The Aquarellista group has said goodbye to Britt-Marie Isaksson in style! We surprised her with a goody bag full of  memories, from photo's to the tea & cookies we have, the cd's we play, the (Arche Torchon) paper we use etc etc...

We didn't spend an awful lot of time working, but despite that, goodlooking aquarelles saw the light. Unfortunately my cameralens was dirty, so the pics presented here are all a bit vague...

Christmas Rose by Brigitte Jansen

Grapes by Liz Douglas

Village by Lesley Bufton

Lowering the sails by Edith Alborni

Sisters by Agnes McLaughlin

St Tropez Regatta by Roly Bufton

Bibbi Isaksson

Starting a new adventure...

One of the very very talented aquarellistas of our Hangar group, Bibbi Isaksson, is a professional artist with an impressive and very original, creative oeuvre of painted tales and landscapes of fantasy. But she is leaving the South of France and moving back to her homeland Sweden. I am happy to know her - and sad that she leaves us! She is a great and very inspiring artist as well as a super nice person.

2x Bowl of cherries

Bibbi has promised to keep us posted on her new aquarelles when she is settled 'up North' so it isn't really goodbye, and we may even have a chance to visit her and let us be inspired by the beautiful landscapes of her country. But for the time being we'll have to make do with a little random show of her work...

Bibbi's Lascaux

Those were the days

A story of trust and jealousy

Tomatoe girl

May the good times come

Bibbi wishes you all a great Christmas and very happy new year...

Older posts about Bibbi and her work can be found here:
http://aquarellista.blogspot.com/2009/11/exhibition-bibbi-isaksson-part-i.html
and here:
http://aquarellista.blogspot.com/2009/11/exhibition-bibbi-isaksson-ii.html

Aquarellistas' work of 15 November

Cherries by Bibbi Isaksson - not finished -according to herself.

I think they are wonderful in their simplicity

 

Last week Tuesday I missed out on another watercolour session and I am sorry about that, because a lot of very interesting things happened! Cathie organized it again and she brought a lot of inspiring stuff, a basket of pine-cones, coloured carafes, plain carafes with coloured water, marbles and cherries.

The pine-cones, marbles and cherries were the objects of choice

Pinecone (unfinished) by Anna-Karin Fast

Marbles by Liz Douglas.

Already very beautiful (and well done!) yet the colored shadows Liz is going to add will definitely 'finish' this painting

The 'autumn' projects were finished...

Liz Douglas covered a leaf with masking fluid, so that she could (after it had dried) add a spontaneous background with sponge. It worked ot very well, the leaves are now clearly falling!

Anna-Karin Fast finished her apples, they are so juicy!!

And very interesting paintings outside the suggested subjects were created as well:

Mysterious Misty Mountains by Brigitte Jansen. So transparent! Good use of the medium!!

Sexy girl with great mouth! by Agnes McLaughlin. Aquarelle makes it so dreamy...

Very surrealistic image by Bibbi Isaksson.

Note that left top part is done on another piece of paper, to see if it works.

Great way to check out changes in aquarelle!!

Coming Tuesday I will join this super talented aquarellista group in the Hangar once more! I look forward to it

Autumn leaves

Autumn leaves by Brigitte Jansen



Last Tuesday was organized and catered for by Cathie van der Stel. She made sure the afternoon was very cosy and relaxed and she inspired the Aquarellistas to paint 'autumn' -leaves or otherwise. As always the resulting paintings are very personal!

Misty autumn landscape by Anna-Karin Fast

Falling leaves by Helene van der Kroft

Autumn Leaves drifting by Agnes McLaughlin

Edith Alborni's selection of autumn leaves

and this is not all - there is also wonderful work-in-progress, by Liz Douglas, Bibbi Isaksson and Anna-Karin Fast, coming up next week!

Watercolour class on Tuesday afternoons

On Tuesday afternoons the Hangar offers a watercolour class, with yours truly as a teacher. We start 2pm and finish painting 4.30pm, and after that we have a line up and evaluation...

I always suggest a subject, and sometimes all join in creating their variations on that theme. This is very interesting because you see the surprising differences in style and personal view... I'll show you some of that later because we have a small group of starters, working on the same exercises and already showing a wonderful variety in design and expression.

Lately, most of the advanced participants have brought their own ideas and subjects, and I thought it would be nice to show you some of the results of that...

Yachts

Roly Bufton loves the sea and everything to do with watersports... here you see his silhouette looking at a classic boat  and below work in progress.. on another classic boat.

Landscape

In our Aquarellista group the theme 'landscape' often means something quitre different from the ordinary.

Like this one by Sandra Seymour Dale

Or this colourful and poetic forest painted by Anna Karin Fast. She used handmade paper of another type and the effect of this paper is amazing: the paint granulates so much more than on our regular Arche Torchon (enlarge picture by clicking it to appreciate what this looks like)

A weird yet very interesting landscape with great perspective by Hélène van der Kroft

This more classic landscape was created by a guest, Ellie. It is very well done - and will most definitely be stunning when the shadows of the village are added...

Still life

Fantasy still lifes by Liz Douglas and Brigitte Jansen (below), inspired by the starter exercise on 'transparency'. Note the differences, knowing that they worked from the same example in the 2nd Hangar Watercolour Book 

China still life by Cathie van der Stel with experimental background, made with wet aquarelle paint and cling film

Cup designed by Lies Timmermans, with her initials

 Surrealistic still life with many interesting aspects by Bibbi Isaksson

Next week - People, Animals, Halloween and more...