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...

NELLY!

Last Tuesday was a glorious day in many respects!
Most important, it was a significant birthday for our beloved teacher of the oil group Nelly 'TIM' van Hijfte... Her class, some aquarellistas and the Hangar board threw her a little party with presents, bubbly and nibbles... After a nice birthday speech by our president Ton van Schijndel, and vice-president Charmian Murley, Nelly promised to stay at least another five years - which makes us all very happy! Here are some pics:

Spring is in the air...

 Last Tuesday the weather was so fabulous, that Christiane and Anna-Karin decided to make a watercolour of spring flowers instead of our theme du jour...

  Crocuses by Anna-Karin, not even finished but already fabulous!

 Mimosa by Christiane - you can almost smell them...

The theme du jour by the way was 'reflection of a female figure' and most aquarellistas started with it, did good work, but not far enough to show here yet.

 The one by Avril is so cool! We agreed, it has a 'fifties' atmosphere

 And how about this cute little girl by Edith... A fairytale...

 Start of a beauty, reflection not yet there, by Sandra

And then the Animal-section:

 

  Edith's cat with interesting knot

Cathie's back from SA - she warmed up with these (wooden!) fish - they look amazing - and quite real

 Edith created a stunning driftwood elephant, combining the 'pattern' of drift wood with a 'real' elephant...

 Agnès can't be with us at the moment - but that doesn't mean she is not watercolouring! Here's another wonderful wild animal from her hand - combined with driftwood - he's on it ☺

Exposition in La Napoule, now running until March 15

A lot of color in a bright place!

Here we are , come on in

Hope to see you there, Sylvia and Imme

Model drawing on Monday mornings

 Good work in last week's Model session with Mélisandre! Have a look at our drawings!
Below them is an invitation to a full-day drawing workshop in les Beaux arts de Cannes...

 Here's the info about the workshop: 

For the agendas: Marie Boquet, our model of coming Monday and a very good artist herself, will host a live model day on Saturday 14 March (in Les Beaux Arts de Cannes, 2ème rue de Bari, in le Suquet) see poster below & ask her about it Monday! 
Marie Boquet, notre modèle et très bon artiste elle-même, organise une journée de modèle vivant le samedi 14 Mars (dans Les Beaux Arts de Cannes, 2ème rue de Bari, dans le Suquet) voir affiche ci-dessous & lui demandez lundi!

Aquarelle - Tuesday 2 - 4.30pm, with Marina

Driftwood & Manga...

Last Tuesday we let ourselves be inspired by driftwood... It was not easy - but the results were impressive. Also, we had two guests, Manon and Christine, who brought their own subject - also inspiring and defiunitely something we will one day give a try: Manga... a typical Japanese style of comic book drawing...

Costanza took a simple  example and made this exciting aquarelle out of it!

 Christiane created a colourful and real-looking piece of driftwood

 Christine combined watercolours and felt pen for this excellent worn wood

 Edith (work in progress) created a driftwood-elephant

 Great colours and shapes inspired by driftwood - by Sandra

Avril's driftwood - in progress

And then there were two guests: Christine (L) and Manon (R) - they brought their own subject: an Egyptian beauty in Manga-style... Difficult drawing and then watercolours, it was the first time they used it - and wow - they did great!

 Christine

 Manon

'Our own' Christine also gave Manga-drawing a go - and came up with a really good one:

Liz and Sandra didn't go for the Manga's but painted beautiful females with a touch of spring...

 Liz

Sandra

EXPOSITION in la Napoule starts in a week!

Here all information concerning the upcoming colourful exposition of 2 Hangar Abstract artists from Pim's Monday group.  Sylvia van der Weide and Imme Kooman-Visscher. It is in the new Mairie Annexe of La Napoule, just around the corner of the Chateau de La Napoule. For route  and parking information look on 

www.mandelieu.fr  under culture and expositions.

Please,come and pay us a visit.