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.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?
Chalk Art Group 