On our first Saturday meeting of the year it was good to see so many members , 24 in all, turn up
Some members kept strictly to the theme of ‘A Winter Walk In The Snow’ or painted snowy scenes with various wildlife.
Some members chose to ‘do their own thing’
We would like to welcome three new members to the group. Elizabeth (Betty) Foxworthy who came along on Saturday and Graham and Pat Lock who were unable to make the meeting in January but will be coming in February. Graham is a returning member from the early years of the group.
I would like to give a big thank you to Ann Brooker who had to leave the group last year because she had to give up driving. She still looks at the blog and gave us a very generous donation which we will put to good use. Thank you Ann
Our next meeting is on Wednesday the 14th February from 7pm to 9pm
Angela D has finished the flower painting she started at the last Wednesday session about Pantone’s Colour of the Year Peach Fuzz. It’s delicately painted in acrylics.
Angela also goes to weekly art classes and is working on a portrait of Canadian-American singer and songwriter Neil Young.
Nine hardy members braved the cold evening to attend the first session of 2024. Creating a picture using the colour Peach Fuzz was the suggested idea, either as the only colour or as part of a painting.
It’s a year long colour project, so try and include Peach Fuzz in your paintings throughout 2024. Some members drew and painted to their own theme.
A great start to the year, well done!
The next session is on Saturday 27th January 10am-3pm.
Here are suggestions of what to paint at the sessions in January, but you are very welcome to come along and paint whatever you want to.
Wednesday 10th 7-9pm– Pantone Colour of the Year – Peach Fuzz / or bring new art supplies to try out
Worldwide colour company Pantone’s Colour of the Year 2024 is Peach Fuzz, a soft gentle peachy colour. Use any medium to paint or draw any subject using this colour alone, or make it the most used colour in a picture. Draw or paint flowers, animals, food, a landscape, abstract, Zentangle, a person wearing peach coloured clothing, a car, absolutely anything at all!
Remember this colour, Peach Fuzz, and try and use it in paintings throughout 2024.
Or if you received new paints or paper as Christmas gifts bring them along to try them out. It’s always a pleasure unwrapping and using art supplies for the first time.
Saturday 27th 10am – 3pm – A winter walk in the snow
Imagine a wintry walk in snow either in the countryside or an urban landscape. Wrapped up in hat, coat and scarf include figures in your painting either close to or far away. Paint footprints leading to the people, giving a sense of depth of field, and a dog being taken for walkies if you want to add an animal to your picture.
Leave the white of a watercolour sheet of paper as snow or add white tissue paper for texture. With acrylics or oils use a palette knife to add depth to snow in the foreground.
Before you recycle your Christmas cards look through them all to see if there’s one or more that you can use for inspiration for your painting. Or if you have an Instagram account look at snowy winter photographs.
If you can’t make January’s sessions please pop in anyway for a chat and to pay your subs.
HAPPY NEW YEAR and THANK YOU to everyone for your continued support for M&C during 2023, attending sessions or painting along at home.
Membership
We will finance M&C this year with an annual subscription of £84 to cover the hall hire fees for 2024.
Alternatively, equal payments of £28 will be due 3 times this year in January, May and September. If you choose to pay in instalments you are committing to pay for the whole year. Without this support we will not be able to raise enough funds to hire the hall. Steve emailed everyone on 18th December with details of how to pay by bank transfer, cheque or cash, so look back to his email if you need to. Please pay promptly as this saves members being emailed and phoned to be reminded to pay!
If you no longer wish to be a member please email Steve asap so you don’t continue to receive emails from us.
Please pay your membership fee by the end of January to continue to be a member of the art group.Thank you! :o)
Sessions
Our sessions will continue to be on the second Wednesday and the fourth Saturday of the month, with session ideas being published on the 1st of that month.
You don’t have to paint the suggested ideas, you’re welcome to come along and paint anything you want to. Or if you come on a Wednesday and want to paint the Saturday idea or vice versa, that’s no problem at all.
Free tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided at all sessions, so if you just want to come and chat with your art friends then that’s fine too.
Workshops
If we have any workshops they will have the usual ‘first come, first served’ policy of putting your name down, with an additional amount to pay to cover the tutor’s fee. If more artists wish to attend the session than the tutor has room for, we’ll have a waiting list and you have a chance of getting a place as members sometimes pull out at the last minute.
Even if you don’t want to attend a workshop you will have already paid for the hall hire in your subs. You are therefore welcome to sit and paint quietly at the kitchen end of the hall, whilst the workshop session takes place at the window end of the hall.
Here are the session dates for 2024
Please print them out or write them in your diary or calendar. Some months have 5 Saturdays but we meet on the 4th one.
Please note that our Open Day is on Saturday 23rd November, with hanging the evening before.
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