Aquarelle - Tuesday afternoons 2pm with Marina

Sunsets & Vitamins

...in all possible styles, by the Aquarellistas!

 

Agnès's Amazing African sundown... a passionate painting with brush and knife

 

Subtle Sunset by Anna-Karin

 

Rhoda Seymour-Dale visits France from time to time and then passes by to paint with us.

She painted two beautiful aquarelles, the one up here and the one below...

 

Sandra's Sunset, another completely different impression! Sandra used the typical watercolour 'cauliflowers' to create a snowy landscape. Very fragile, misty and cold!

Both starters Jim and Cathy created wonderful sunset landscapes, inspired by the same pictures. They both worked out fine, and for both I had a remark to improve their work. Because I like photoshop so much, I changed the pictures to show what I meant...

The horizon in Jim's aquarelle was not a straight line...

In the version on the right I have straightened the horizon for an even better image!

 

The reflection of the hill in the water needed a bit of tweaking, in the picture on the right I added a bit of reflection (not sure if it really improved things ☺

 

In the meantime starter Wendy did a GREAT job on the 'Volume' exercise, very well done on that!

 

And then on to the volume of healthy, vitamine rich fruit!

Here for example the juicy apples and pears by Liz...

Almost finished: Brigitte's Atmospheric Autumn still life

 

And last but not least, Cathie's unbelievable fruity fruit!!

 

 

 

Valentine variety in aquarelle

We took a break from the "Roses without Thorns", and dedicated last week's aquarelle session to valentine's day - as our theme du jour. And lots of interesting work came out of that, as different personalities think different thoughts with a theme like this! Angels, cupids, hearts - and yes, roses...

 Angel by Cathie van der Stel - note the peaceful wise expression

 Cupid by Bibbi Isaksson. This is just a try out, he doesn't even have his wings - but look at the light, his expression and the softness of his skin...

 Cupid, hearts and roses by Edith Alborni - done with humor as a kind of cartoon and that worked out well!!

 We had Rhoda Seymour-Dale visiting who hadn't been drawing or painting for a long time. She started out carefully with a still life and then couldn't stop! I think she's ready for a bit of paint now...we look forward to seeing her approach to watercolours...

Bibbi's little girl with ancient eyes (and roses)

Not finished but developing into a gorgeous painting, these roses by Sandra Seymour-Dale

And the next version of Anna-Karin Fast's Roses without thorns, the christmas roses... she's not quite happy with them but I think they are wonderful. Anna-Karin has a certain, recognizeable spontaneous style... More about that in coming posts...

There was much more work done, projects like the white still life and the trainer were finished...

The white still life, finished and stronger than ever - by Ann Edwards

The white still life by Edith Alborni - completed!

 The trainer by Edith Alborni - Completed!

...and other projects are still ongoing:

Marina Teding van Berhout's hands - still going on...