Drawing Class - Pim de Jongh

Every other Monday morning, Pim de Jongh welcomes a group of people who want to "sharpen" their drawing skills (or keep them sharp...). Last week the challenge was to make a drawing in pencil, where the main ingredient was a bottle in the foreground - and in the drawing the picture had to be seen through the bottle - but the distortion of the image had to be done from imagination...

an exciting excercise, with great results...

Anne-Françoise Gigho

SL

Betty Schep

Brigitte Jansen

Joop van der Zon

Lucia Gualtieri

Marij van Schijndel

Neville Moray

The Watercolour Class - Marina Kulik

On Tuesday afternoons from 2PM until 4.30PM, the "aquarellistas" use the atelier Le Hangar... Like all groups in the Hangar, the paricipants come from all over the world and all bring something of their own, in style and in culture - and they inspire each other that way. The pack leader is Marina Kulik (yours truly) who takes care of the materials (paper, paint, brushes), the subjects, new ideas and projects and last but not least - the tea!

'Hands' by Marina Teding van Berkhout

Some call the class "the Zen afternoon" - and it is, no stress, just fun - but nevertheless there is a lot of hard work and creativity going on on the Tuesdays!  We have just started with a couple of Christmas themes and a project - more about them in the coming weeks, yet next to that, all participants are always working on their own ideas... Here's some work in progress:

'Winter landscape' by Cathie van der Stel - halfway finished

'Wild Water' by Sandra Seymour-Dale - the yellow shiny stuff is masking fluid, that will in a later stage be the (white) foam...

Helene van der Kroft's 'little pelicans' - we all love them so much!!

Le Hangar in Chateauneuf

This is the first post in a blog that will ultimately be your extra source of news and updates and just fun information about everything that goes on in that big ole Hangar building in Chateauneuf de Grasse in the South of France... The Hangar community is a group of around 100 artists, professionals and amateurs who love art, painting and sculpting, get together on a regular basis and create all kinds of great things, develop their abilities and skills for painting and sculpting.

There are four teachers: Pim de Jongh, he teaches acrylic painting and drawing, Nelly van Hijfte who teaches oil painting, Christie Robinson who teaches sculpture and Marina Kulik (yours truly) who teaches model drawing, portrait drawing and aquarelle. All four are professional artists and you can have a look at their respective websites by clicking on their names in the comlumn on the right...

We hope to bring you reports of the classes, their artists, the teachers, cafés culture, parties, especially great lunches, exhibitions and events as well as results from classes! This blog will be open for everyone, and I welcome you to contribute...Contact me if you are interested to write posts!