October demo: Painting abstract trees
Wallingford and District Art Club invites you to come along to our next demonstration at 7.30pm on Tuesday 24th October, in Centre 70, Wallingford. Aurora Spain, a Berkshire-based artist, will be showing us the stages she works through when painting abstract trees. She expects some of her techniques will be new to us. Aurora says...Continue reading→
ARCHIVE: September demo – seascape in acrylics
On Tuesday 15th September Mark Wood, a Wallingford based artist, gave a demonstration on painting seascapes in acrylics. Here are notes Nicola took on the night. Scilly isles beach. 3 photos as reference, beach, sky, foreground. Split canvas into 3rds – land, horizon one third and third of sky. Draws simple sketch to start. ...Continue reading→
ARCHIVE June Demo: watercolour florals
On Tuesday 16 June from 7.30pm to 9.30pm, Buckinghamshire based artist Nicky Hunter gave a live demo on creating flamboyant florals in watercolour. Below are notes taken by Nicola Webb throughout the demo. Uses 300gsm weight paper. Rougher paper and larger brush to get expressive marks. Lots of water! Uses 4 brushes including 2 squirrel...Continue reading→
ARCHIVE: May Demo: River scene in oil pastels
On Tuesday, 19th May, from 7.30 to 9.30pm, we will be welcoming Jan Gaska back to Centre 70. Jan is a landscape and portrait painter based in the Chilterns. He uses oil paints and has a particular love of working outdoors. We will be treated to a demonstration where he uses oil pastels and focuses...Continue reading→
ARCHIVE: April Demo: wildlife in mixed media
On 21 April from 19.30 to 21.30, we will be welcoming Jennie Whaley, a mixed media artist who will demo painting a wildlife scene. She has lived in Berkshire for twenty years contributing to Berkshire Artists and art events in the UK. Her early life was in Zimbabwe where shortages of art materials meant she...Continue reading→
