Wednesday Evening Meetings Are Back

We had a really fun and interesting talk and two demonstrations yesterday evening from the hugely talented Pauline Hazelwood Artist

Pauline is an award-winning artist having exhibited with the Royal Society of British Artists and the Mall Galleries. She paints in oils and watercolours and illustrates and writes her own children’s books on steam engines.

Having also worked in a framers she shared her tips on how to frame your work, styles galleries are currently looking for and how to cut mounts.

We were also able to see her beautiful sketchbooks which are filled with pen and watercolour sketches of people on the Tube, faces and places. Pauline encouraged us to sketch every day to improve our observation skills and our fluidity.

After a tea break Pauline completed two paintings of people moving - a man pushing a wheelbarrow and a girl on a swing - with an emphasis on showing the stresses of the material to emphasise movement and using loose brush strokes with a big brush.

Thank you Pauline for a very entertaining evening and for Sydney Smith for organising. We are taking a two week break now due to half term but will be back on Monday 8th November, 1pm-3pm, with DAG member Mandy Whittick doing a demonstration of abstract flowers in watercolour and pen.

This will be followed on the evening of Wednesday 17th November with an oil demonstration from Paul Alcock Artist who this week won the Supporting All Artists Award at The SAA Exhibition in Nottingham. Congratulations!

Thanks to all who came last night

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