Drawing on Monday Morning - with Pim

We proudly present the results of the last drawing session: the participants drew the biggest still life ever: The Hangar!! They worked in pen and ink, with truly heartwarming results...enjoy!!

 

 

The library table - by Betty Schep

 

The cupboard with sculptures - by Brigitte Jansen

The Workbench - by Lucia Gualtieri

 Pim's cupboard - by Neville Moray

Workbench with woorden sculpture - by Gaby Berendsen

Aquarelle - Tuesdays from 2pm with Marina Kulik

Last Tuesday we were with a small group (it's holiday in the South of France) and there were several projects that the 'select six' worked on. One of them was a portrait from the Help section in l'Aquarelle... read more about that following this link to the Aquarellista blog

 

Jim Kane started another portrait in the best and most efficient way for watercolours: determine where the light (in other words 'the white') is, and leave those areas unpainted, then paint everything else in the lightest colour... and in the next stage, add shadow and other colours, then start with the details... We will see more of it in the next post I'm sure!

 

We have a new aquarellista, Wendy Boyer, who is a painter in other media but just started with watercolours! She did a very good job on the colour transparency exercise and than happily started experimenting with colours, mixing them wet-in-wet and noticing all the interesting effects... The painting above is not finished but already looks great!

 

And then there are two paintings that I really want to show you because they are soooo great:

 

A perfect pinguin by Anna-Karin - not yet completely finished but already so much character! Click picture to see bigger version...

 

Anna-Karin Fast has discovered a new way of using colours, involving black - a colour we tried to avoid up to now because I always said, black is boring... But it looks like I was wrong!! I hope to get Anna-Karin to write a guest-post about her technique, or maybe tell us all about it and I'll do the posting.

Old cracked paint - a try-out by Cathie

Cathie van der Stel has also discovered something she likes and that involves old walls and ornaments... This is one of her first tries, she combined a couple of things like the ornament on the left, and the combination with rusty bolts  and handle and it looks so well together! Can't wait to see future versions of this!

All Couleurs Locales!

To check out all the artwork that was displayed during the 'Couleurs Locales' click this link:

 

http://artsurligne.com/HangarExpo.cfm

presentation created by Jim Kane (of the Woody Allen portrait)
 

and now it's really over...

The end of a successful exhibition

Today was the final day of the Valbonne exhibition - celebrated with a closing party. Below are some pictures from the event. The exhibition has been very successful - beautiful artwork on display, many visitors and quite a few sales. Congratulations to all.

Ørjan discussing with Lucia

Marina explaining

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Charmian and Neville

another orginal from Helen H.

Studying the details

The evenings bar keeper

GOODBYE PARTY!

Tomorrow, Sunday 4 November, from 3 - 6pm we hope to celebrate the success of our 'Couleurs Locales' exhibition with you!

At the same time there's an Antique Collector's Fair in Valbonne so plenty to do and see! 

 

Please pass by and don't hesitate to bring friends and family, the quality of the work is excellent and the prices are very friendly. You can have a look with a nice glass in your hand - what better way of spending your Sunday afternoon...

Outside the Hangar

 

 

If you visit the Hangar one of these days and you notice that the outside looks much cleaner, there's not much weed left and it looks like there's more space in general - you are right!

 

One of the participants of the Thursday Sculpture class, John Duddridge, has taken the initiative to do a BIG job on our terrain!!

 

This Tuesday he worked like a maniac and removed much of the growth, by hand, and with a chainsaw ☺and he will come back Wednesday morning for the details.... That's the spirit!! On behalf of all of us, a BIG THANK YOU John!!

 

EXPO VALBONNE: Couleurs Locales

Until Sunday 4 November (included) the Oil painters and Aquarellistas of the Hangar exhibit a selection of their 'figurative' work. This exhibition, in the 'Salle St Esprit' in Valbonne is more than worthwhile to visit! There are paintings as well as sculptures, for every taste and space! The paintings are without exception interesting and well done - and there are a lot of them, with subjects varying from portraits to buildings, there are animals, landscapes, seascapes, still lives and people in groups or alone... and all that for very attractive prices!! 

Edith Alborni, organizer and inspirator of this event! Here together with my hubby Jeroen, after a night of hard work to set up this beautiful expo!! In the background two huge & beautiful portraits by Chris Herlicq

The first informal opening reception was a great succes with over 100 visitors!

Three sales so far!!

Also in this exhibition, the Aquarellista calendar designs. The 2013 calendars are being printed as we speak and will be for sale probably this week! I will come back to you about them when they are 'in'.

 

Last but not least - we'll have a 'fermeture' party on Sunday the 4th of November... more about that later!