The group has had a very positive start to the year with most members attending one session or other, which is great news. For those too poorly to come along at the moment, we wish you well as soon as possible so you can paint with us again!

Here are this month’s session ideas but, as always, they are simply suggestions, you can come along and ‘do your own thing’.

Try and get Pantone’s Colour of the Year, Peach Fuzz, into at least one of your pictures.

Wednesday 13th – 7-9pm – Heroes and Villains

A broad subject that you can create in any medium. Your hero, heroine or villain can be real people, living or dead, famous or family, from fiction or from popular culture like films and animation. Draw or paint one hero or one villain, or a hero and their arch nemesis together.

Saturday 23rd – 10am-3pm – Soft pastel workshop with Paul Hinks

Paul Hinks is a local artist whose work you may have seen at an Under the Rainbow exhibition at Bluewater and at events in Gravesend. His pastel artworks and paintings are absolutely amazing and you can see them here on his website… www.paulhinks.art

It will be a soft pastel workshop and the subject will be animals. More details of photographs and equipment needed will be supplied very soon.

The cost will be £10 each to cover Paul’s fee, the hall hire fee already covered by your subs. Please note that Paul is booked from 10am to 2.30pm, the extra 30 minutes of the session to be used for clearing up the hall. Please turn up promptly to start at 10am so we don’t waste any time with him. If you arrive late please find a free seat and unpack quietly.

Check the date first to see if you are available. There are 5 Saturdays in March, but we’ll meet on the 4th one. The 5th and last Saturday of this month is Easter weekend, but we are meeting the week before.

If you are free and want to attend then EMAIL Tracy on her usual email address.

*** DO NOT USE the comments box as messages can take days to get through! ***

Once Tracy has confirmed your place please pay by bank transfer (preferred) or cash.

If there are more people than places then there will be a waiting list. 

Please don’t book a place then realise the day before that you won’t be able to come. Unfortunately in the past we have had members cancelling on the day or just not turning up. This means that people on the waiting list miss a place and we also lose the person’s fee, costing the group money.

As you have already paid for the hall in your recent subs we aim to make the hall accessible for everyone on the day, even if you’re not taking part in the workshop. We’ll have the workshop towards the big window end of the hall and a couple of tables at the kitchen end of the hall available if you wish to come and ‘do your own thing’ on the day, but please work quietly, thank you!