I’ve been looking out for signs of Autumn in the hedges and gardens, not only for leaves for the Autumn Leaves workshop but also for my last studio workshop of the year billed as Autumn fruits, flowers, etc.
Month: October 2010
Photos for the SFP painters
I promised the ladies at the SFP workshop last Saturday that I would post the reference photos, so here they are. Hopefully you can print them out if you want to. The single flower images will give you an idea about the placement of the cast shadows on the petals. Essential in order to give the painting that sunny look.
Painting Cosmos with the Society of Floral Painters
We had a great day’s painting in Bursledon with the Society of Floral Painters and although the paintings were unfinished at the end of our long day’s creative work, they really did make a good show as you can see in the above photo.
Society of Floral Painters workshop coming up…
Today I’m preparing and packing up all my stuff ready to make the journey down to Southampton for a workshop I’m running for the Society of Floral Painters. I’m always delighted to be asked to do this for them as I know that they are great flower lovers and serious floral artists. No pressure there then!
A good time was had…..
We had a good day today at the Autumn Leaves studio workshop.
Autumn Leaves….workshop coming soon.
I’ve been looking at leaves and using up my tubes of gold, crimson, yellow, pink, and siennas. I’ll have to get a new stock in for the workshop! But it is great fun. As long as you get the outer shape of the leaf right, (and don’t tell anyone, but a real leaf makes a wonderful template!), then you can go crazy with your colours and textures within the leaf.
Rainbow Hydrangeas
I had good fun with this yesterday. Used a piece of the back of an old painting and just set off with a little bit of drawing with some watercolour pencils right in the middle plus some loose washes of the different colours I could see in the flowers. Then worked my way out, adding more flowers. I had a vase of about 5 flowers in front of me and I kept turning the vase to get different views. I suppose I was trying to get them to look as if they were growing outside in the garden.
Walled Garden workshop debriefing….
There were eight of us, Margaret, Anne, Rosie, Shirley, Marion, Di, Jean and I here in the studio yesterday for the workshop and we did some good work. Everyone ended up with a very decent painting. I’ve uploaded a photo but Jean had to go early and so her lovely painting isn’t there.