2026 started well with many members attending both sessions in January, so hopefully you want to keep coming along!

Here are two suggested ideas for February, but if you prefer to draw or paint your own theme that’s absolutely fine. Come along and join your friends for relaxing art sessions over a cuppa and biscuits.

Wednesday 11th – 7-9pm – Chinese New Year of the Fire Horse

February 17th is the start of the Chinese New Year, which this year is the Year of the Fire Horse. Along with the twelve zodiac animal, years also have one of five elements associated with them, earth, fire, metal, water or wood. The sexagenary cycle means this combines the horse and fire for the first time in 60 year.

Draw or paint your vision of the fire horse. If you prefer your subject to just be a horse, that’s fine.

Saturday 28th – 10am-3pm – People in Winter

Last month we drew and painted animals in winter. This month we look at people in winter but add in landscapes as they are very popular, and portraits, which some members prefer.

Landscapes – people in a wintery landscape, urban or rural, walking, working, skiing, ice skating, building a snowman, having a snowball fight etc

Portraits – at home draw a person in a woolly hat, wearing earmuffs or a hooded coat. Bring your sketches to the session and paint their portrait.

Fast and loose – work fast and loose with pencils and paints to bring energy to your picture. A downhill skier zooming past would work well.

Texture – as suggested last month, add watercolour ground, acrylic ground, fabric or paper textures to your surface and paint over the top.

Collage – collage the whole image. Bring a cover for your table if you choose this as collage can get very messy!

Mixed media – use three or more mediums to create your people in winter picture.