A lovely afternoon of mindfulness today with Mandy. First gallery is of the process in mark making and the second gallery is the variety of effects we created today 🎨

 

This Monday's class will be taken by the lovely Mandy Whittick. Mandy has provided the below information: We will be creating small abstract paintings. Please can you bring: -Your usual paper (larger than A4 if you have it) water pots etc. -Masking tape -A few acrylic paints plus black and white and a few brushes. Don't worry if you don't have acrylics, you can do this with watercolours. -Old tester pots of emulsion you may have. -Anything that can make marks or scratches - eg. bubble wrap, bits of card, an old credit card, stencils, a bit of collage and glue, ink pen and ink, whatever you fancy. -A few colour pencils or pastels. Don't worry if you don't have all of these, just bring what you can. Hope to see you there.

 

Woodwork, Willowwork, Linocuts, Sculptural Ceramics, Painting, Weaving, Encaustic Art …..are amongst the many treats waiting for you at NORTH WEST ESSEX ARTISTS OPEN STUDIOS TRAIL June 27 28 29 & 30 21 artists waiting to share with you with their artistic processes. Refreshments available at some studios. Free downloadable brochure available from the 15th May.

 

It is good to be challenged…and we are always open to try something new; today was no exception! Learning to use acrylic as if it were oils was certainly very challenging! Fabienne taught us how to blend gradually as acrylics dry so quickly…a skill that will take a little practise! This gallery shows our work in progress.

 

What an amazing event we had at the Dunmow Showcase today in St Mary’s Church in Great Dunmow - it was amazing to see so many people supporting the event and amazing to learn about the many events available on our doorstep. If you picked up a business card, leaflet or flyer from our stall, we hope you decide to join us one day soon and unleash your creative spirit! Thank you for stopping by, it was great to meet you! Well done to John and Helen Wright for such a well organised event! 👏🏻👏🏻 Thank you for letting us join you 😊 Attached is also a poster that members may find of interest - it would be great if we could support this event….have a read!

 

Please join us tomorrow at St Mary’s Church in Great Dunmow where there will be a showcase of community events, groups and clubs happening in Dunmow. Dunmow Art Group will be there promoting the art group and would appreciate any of our members popping in to share your work and your experience of attending the group! It starts at 10am and runs through to 4pm. Hope to see you there! 🎨

 

For Monday's class, please print a good quality copy of the attached photo and sketch/trace an outline of the image on your chosen painting surface. Please see the following notes from Fabienne: ‘Next week we will need 3 different brushes: fine medium and a fat round brush. Acrylic Paint wise, we'll need: Titanium white Cadmium yellow/lemon Burnt umber Burnt sienna Ultramarine blue Yellow ochre Crimson red. Support: Paper canvas, canvas or multimedia paper with a coat of Jesso.’

 

An afternoon of two halves today! Firstly, we carried on with our pastel portraits and then created some abstract watercolours aka Neurographic Art - letting our minds run freely and not controlling anything at first! Enjoy the gallery! 🎨 #dunmowartgroup #dunmow #art #pastelart #portraits #neurographicart

 

On Monday, to start with, we'll finish the pastel pencil drawing we started last week, then for the next hour we'll do some relaxing and therapeutic abstract work. We'll need a black sharpie pen (fine tip) a white sheet of watercolour paper, watercolour paints, a medium size brush and masking tape.

 

A lesson in pastel portraits with Fabienne today - a gallery of our work in progress 🖼️ 🎨

 

Here are the details for the class on Monday 15th April with the lovely Fabienne. Fabienne will be using pastel pencils (pastels for those who don't have pencils) to work on skin tones in portrait. Fabienne has chosen this picture of a young woman which is quite standard and where there is contrast in value, but not too much. The colours you will need are: -Grey for sketching -White -Crimson or cadmium red -Olive green -Ultramarine -Lemon yellow -Black for details. Fabienne has said that you can bring a putty rubber, but personally she doesn’t use them.

 

Fabulous fun with Holly Casey today learning how to gel print. Some very creative results were achieved as you can see from our gallery below. Thank you Holly 😃👍🏼🧑‍🎨🎨 If you think you would like to join Dunmow Art Group, please take a look at our blog page for more information: https://dunmowartgroup.blogspot.com

 

🧑‍🎨🎨 We are now fully booked for the session with artist Holly Casey on printing, using and applying gel mould for Monday 25th March. However, for anyone who would still like to come along and do their own work, you are still very welcome to do this. 🧑‍🎨🎨