Aquarelle - Tuesdays from 2 - 4.30pm with Marina

 

 Sitting Nude by Sandra Seymour-Dale

One of the superb aquarelles for our show in Chateau des Demoiselles

 Corks by Cathie

 

Grapes with curly bits by Agnès

Liz is working on several paintings at the same time.*
 

*That way you don't waste time as one can dry while you paint another

 Other, interesting work to be developed, by Cathie

The basic washes of Elia's painting. It will have such a warm glow when it is finished...

 This small fun aquarelle was created by Tricia, a new Aquarellista! 

 Also a couple of aquarelles that were not related to wine or 'demoiselles'

Bougainville by Anna-Karin

'Sun behind the door' by Mieke

Tricia also painted this one, with added pen and wax (the white on the avocado peel and pit)

Emily worked on two exercises for her 3d afternoon: the spheres with highlights and shadows (objective: suggest volume). She did a great job on them and is determined to practise this a lot while she is in Canada...

  

And the other exercise: washing off the colour (check!) and then creating volume using the spheres-technique or patterns (in progress)

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Hangar in the news (again)

We had a big article in the 'Chateauneuf Info' edition été 2014.
It is a magazine with updates and news about our region, and it is a very well-read source of information: even I read it as I am proving here ☺
NB: the picture must be old: The door on the right is open!

Aquarelle Tuesdays, from 2 - 4.30 with Marina

Preparing for our exhibition

 We are going to have a group exhibition in Chateau des Demoiselles in September. Watch this space for updates - and previews on the work we're going to show. Guess what the theme is...

 Demoiselle by Agnes - She will create a series. This little portrait is made throug putting water on random parts of face and then adding colour! Gives an interesting lightfall!

 Grapes by Agnes

 Grapes in shapes by Cathie

 Multicolour Grapes by Constanza

 Pouring a good glass by Elia B.

 Stealing a sip by Elia B. - now fnished

Glass of good red by Sandra

And a women- inspired painting by Sandra, 

The plan is to have a coloured inside and the outside (the passepartout part) will be uncoloured. Already visible in the longest finger and the bracelet. And there will be poetry. This sounds so good! Complicated, but good - and interesting! Watch this space for pictures of the result!

Aquarelle - Tuesdays 2 - 4.30pm with Cathie van der Stel

Wine, Women and song

 

A typical 'Chateau des Demoiselles'-bottle by Bev - cheese coming up by the look of it

Last Week the Aquarellista group was led by the wonderful Cathie van der Stel! She suggested to work on themes for our upcoming exhibition in Chateau des Demoiselles: "Wine" and "Women" in all possible ways.

As you can see above and below, it was picked up very well by everyone (not all artwork was photographed - but believe me it all looked so good! you can see who was the teacher du jour)

By the way - these are all projects in progress and they will end up being small paintings in our successful 'same-frame'-format...

 Elia B.'s Vin et souris

 Liz's inspiration from the word Wine

Wine according to Sandra - and a very beautiful hand. Well done!

 

Emily just joined the group. She's a bold user of colours as you can see here and she will no doubt blend in perfectly with the rest of the group after she's finished the starter exercises...

Coming Tuesday yours truly will be absent again and you can look forward to another lovely session with Cathie! From the 8th of July onwards everything is back to normal and FYI: the last watercolour class before the holidays will be on 29 July... We start again 2nd week of September (but we'll be working on our expo and be in touch before that)

Aquarelle-Tuesdays from 2 - 4.30pm with Marina

Agnès

Last week the Aquarellistas proceeded with the clouds - this time we didn't follow the youtube instuctions, but used our own insights (and lots of kitchen paper). As you can see below and above, that led to better results - we're better when the initiative is ours, so much is clear! It was a lovely afternoon and we welcomed 3 new painters, and also we had Mieke (who has been absent for serious reasons) in our midst, which was great! And what's more, she had not forgotten how to paint...

Sandra

Beverley

 Elia B.

 Elizabeth

 Jean

 Jean

Jean

Apart from the clouds, there were a couple of projects that needed attention - and which worked out very very well:

 Edith

 Liz

 Liz

Mieke

 Emily

The painting by Emily, is her very first watercolour. It is Exercise Number One of our book - meant to show the differences and similarities with colour-mixing and colour-layers, and she did a near-perfect job... I have high hopes for her!!

ABSTRACT VIBRATIONS NEWS:Price winners from THE HANGAR, yesterday at Espace Miramar in Cannes!

Who had thought that our 2 Hangar ABSTRACT girls would win a price?
I just went to look at the exposition, and support Karin Kellinger and Merete Frickmann  at the price winning ceremony. Than all of the sudden they win both prices for abstract paintings and on top of that Karin Fellinger wins the overal GRAND PRIX DE PEINTURE, de l'Association des amis de l'ile Saint Marguerite.
FANTASTIC, we are all soo proud!  Especially PIM de Jongh
Good publicity for our Association too.
Well done girls!

Karin Fellinger and Merete Frickmann expose in Cannes, ESPACE MIRAMAR 12-23 June 2014

The group Abstract Vibrations is very proud to announce that 2 of them have been asked to join an exposition of paintings in Cannes, this week, in Cannes.
Go and have a look. Remise de prix the 22nd.
Espace Miramar, on the Croisette.
Here a few of their works to have in impression.
For more information please, contact Karin 0607225464
Well done girls!!!