Three paintings started at the May Wednesday session have been completed at home.

Angela painted Salvador Dali’s striking portrait in acrylics. She has perfectly captured his intense stare at the viewer.

Susan painted Dali’s mermaids and sea creatures picture in watercolour and finished the details with coloured pencils.

Tracy used black pen for the telephone and watercolour paints for the lobster in the image of ‘Aphrodisiac Telephone’. One of four such telephones made by Dali, this one was made in 1936 and is now in the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Pantone Colour of the Year, Peach Fuzz, is in the lobster’s tail and claws.

Good work, ladies! It’s good to see completed paintings when we’ve seen the beginnings at an earlier session.

Eleven members attended the session and either drew or painted their Salvador Dali pictures or did their own thing. Some used Dali as an influence in their paintings or studied one painting or Surrealist object in detail, and some drew his portrait. One member channelled her inner Dali and drew a merhorse, then continued with other images that flowed from her pencil. There’s also an homage to Dali’s ‘The Persistence of Memory’ with ‘The Persistence of Washing’, which never goes away!

Most are works in progress, so if you finish your picture before the next session either send a completed photo to Tracy or Steve or bring it along to the next session on Saturday 25th May to be photographed.

Peta drew a tram in great detail and will paint it soon.

Thank you to everyone who embossed metallic dragon scales at the session, details and photos will be in the next post.

Hopefully everyone is enjoying the warmer weather when the sun occasionally shines, but wet weather is due over the bank holiday weekend, as usual!

If you didn’t pay your yearly subs all in one go at the beginning of the year, please look out for an email from Steve about paying the next payment of £28, due at the beginning of May. Thank you :o)

Wednesday 8th – 7-9pm – Salvador Dali

120 years after his birth, Salvador Dali (May 1904-Jan 1989), is globally recognised for his skilled, precise draughtsmanship and the often strange images in his paintings. He is one of the most well known artists of Surrealism. Paint a scene or image in the style of Salvador Dali or study and recreate one of his original paintings which are in galleries worldwide.

If you prefer drawing and painting portraits then choose Dali himself or with his wife Gala.

Click through to these websites to read about Dali and see his paintings…

www.salvadordali.com

www.thedali.org

www.salvador-dali.org/en

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dalí

Saturday 25th May – 10am-3pm – Underwater Life

We are always drawing and painting animals on land, so instead let’s look at life in rivers, seas and oceans. Huge whales and sharks, tiny colourful tropical fish, predators and prey, life at ocean depths, plants and animals on coral reefs, octopuses, starfish, shells, jellyfish, scuba divers exploring underwater. There are so many options.

If you prefer drawing or painting a portrait then choose a famous diver like Jacques-Yves Cousteau the inventor of the aqualung, his son Jean-Michel Cousteau, or environmental campaigner and botanist David Bellamy who studied coral reefs and pollution decades ago.

If you use watercolours then perhaps use the paints really wet-on-wet to achieve a watery effect. Using any media you don’t have to paint animals precisely, why not try a Surrealist picture of underwater life in the style of Salvador Dali?