Our Open Day is next month on Saturday 25th November and if you will be exhibiting any framed paintings on the walls please don’t forget that we’ll be hanging them on the evening of Friday 24th November from 7pm.

Hopefully you’re finishing off paintings now and getting them mounted and/or framed, all ready to show them off!

Here are the ideas for this month, but you’re always welcome to come along and ‘do your own thing’.

Wednesday 11th – 7-9pm – Fungi

There are some interestingly named fungi called Devil’s Fingers, Fly Agaric, Jelly Ear, Collared Earthstar, Shaggy Inkcap, Stinkhorn, Candlesnuff, Dead Man’s Fingers, Slime Mould, Witch’s Butter and Yellow Brain, to name a few.

Draw or paint unusual fungi or buy some mushrooms from your local supermarket and create a picture by carefully looking at the cap, gills and stem.

Paint a lifelike picture or get imaginative and put faerie folk amongst the fungi or create Zentangle inspired art in fungi shapes.

Use any medium but get creative.

Saturday 28th October – 10am-3pm – Inktober

Inktober during October was first created in 2009 by American artist Jake Parker as a challenge to improve his inking skills and develop positive drawing habits.

On the official Inktober website there are 31 daily prompts that you use ink to create. You don’t have to do them all, just the ones you want to. Or do one every 3 or 5 days, or at weekends only. If you join in please bring your pictures to the session to be photographed, or send your photos to Tracy for inclusion on the blog.

Here’s the website for more info… www.inktober.com

Here are all the daily prompts on the website…

If you’re on Facebook you can follow the ‘Inktober’ page and/or ‘Jake Parker’ the original artist.

There are also 31 prompts for inking Zentangles, each led by an accredited Zentangle artist. Click on this link to follow the prompted tangle…

https://bit.ly/InktoberTangles2023prompts

Whilst black ink is mostly used for these ideas, bring coloured inks to the session too so we can be really colourful and creative.

Experiment with vibrant Brusho powders if you have them, or colour some paper, tear it up and glue down to create a collage. Any subject but if you’re stuck for an idea, bring along some colourful Autumn leaves or interesting pumpkins.