Acrylics - Boats on the Beach

Everyone enjoyed their Acrylics Class last week, Boats on the Beach

Great paintings, with textured sand, rolling waves and lovely skies.

We had the last of the Treetops apples in an autumnal crumble alongside pears and blackberries, delicious!

Acrylics & Collage Class

We started our Art Term with an Acrylics and Collage Class with Claire.

- Cafe Scene -

The majority of the class were new to Arylics.

Claire started the morning talking about acrylic paints and how they are best applied.

Using a canvas board attached to hardboard, Claire then demonstrated how she plans her painting with blocks of colour, preparing your paint beforehand is key, make sure you have got enough mixed up in the colours you need.  She shared a lot of tips with everyone.

Once the blocks of paint had been applied it was time for the collage.  Photocopies of cafe scene photographs were used, waiters, menu boards and customers sitting at tables and chairs.

We used pva glue to stick these onto the dry acrylic paint.

After lunch, it was time to put in the detail and blend the collage into the painting.  If you click on the photo below, you can see Claire's close up, see where she painted in people, where she left collage and added some gold pen to help things stand out. 

Claire spoke about creating a pathway into the cafe, creating depth in the doorway and adding shadows to the floor, all these touches helped complete the paintings.

Below is our brilliant gallery from the day....

 

 

When you stand back from the paintings, it is very hard to tell which bit is paint and which bit is collage. 

There are a couple of spaces left in December on our Pen & Wash class and also our Winter Scene.

Some new dates for the diary

I have some new Autumn dates for you and the diary, for Art and also Aga.

We have an Acrylics and Collage day with Claire Warner

Thursday 14 September

A Cafe Scene

followed by an Oils class with Claire

Wednesday 27 September

Inspired by Turner

Both of these classes run from 9:30am - approx 3pm and cost £80.

This includes all of your materials, a 2 course lunch with a glass of wine and refreshments throughout the day.

We have two brand new Aga classes next term with Sarah Whitaker; 

Autumn Treats

Tuesday 26 September

A brand new set of recipes from Sarah.  I'm looking forward to this one already; warming stews, soups, pies, tarts and puddings.  All the great autumnal meals that the Aga is so fantastic at during the autumn and winter months. 

Christmas Parties

Thursday 30 November

Another NEW class, full of delicious ideas to start the festive season, from canapes to roulades, tarts to flapjacks with lots of festive flavours.  Sarah will show what can be prepared ahead and how to make the most of your freezer as well as the Aga at this time of year.

Both classes run from 10am - approx 1:30pm and cost £70.

This includes a tasting lunch of all the food cooked, a glass of wine, refreshments on arrival and a copy of all the recipes to take home with you. 

Acrylics and Collage Class

Friday was our new class - Acrylics and Collage with Claire Warner.

Our artists bought photos, images, sand and shells with them to help create their pictures.

They worked on a canvas board, attached to cardboard.

Claire demonstrated the various techniques needed.

It may be quite hard to see on the blog but some of the pictures do have real photos and magazine/paper cuttings glued on to them.

The shells below were attached to texture paste to build up around them.

Everyone really enjoyed using the acrylics in this way, mixing the paints to match the colours of their images to help blend them together.

If you look closely at the birds below you will see they started as torn out pieces from a newspaper

Below is an unfinished painting, we thought it was a great idea, to incorporate the artist's grandchildren into a painting.  Hopefully we will get to see the finished painting.

Below is my favourite beach shot from last week's trip to the 'Wild' South West!

Not the best week of weather to go, but a great excuse to sit by the fires on lovely sofas!

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Summer Term Classes

We have some great classes to look forward to next term, below is a list of our Art classes run by Claire Warner, which have spaces available:

Bluebells Watercolour
Tuesday 12 May

Feathered Friends Watercolour

Wednesday 13 May

Cornish Sunsets Watercolour

Wednesday 20 May

Blossom with Acrylics, Inks and Tissue Paper*

Wednesday 3 June

Mixed Media in Watercolour
Tuesday 9 June
(new and alternative methods of using this unusually flexible medium.
Things you never realised you could do!)

Beginners Watercolour

Thursday 18 June

All Art Classes run from 9.30am - approx 3pm and cost £70
(*Acrylics = £75)

This includes all of your materials, a 2 course lunch with a glass of wine and refreshments throughout the day.

Sarah Whitaker will be here for an Aga class on Friday 15 May

RELAXED DINNER PARTIES

a new class with plenty of fresh ideas for parties and suppers along with loads of Aga advice and support.

10am - 1:30pm

£65

This includes a copy of all the recipes to take home and a delicious tasting lunch of all the food cooked and a glass of wine.

I am also taking bookings for her September class called
ONE POT WONDERS
 this will be held on Wednesday 16 September.

Acrylic Seascapes

Today was fun, busy, noisy and really creative.

We did this class a few years ago and I loved it.  It reminded me of playschool!  White PVA glue, the little plastic glue spreaders, crumpled tissue paper ..... brilliant!

Our artists dropped some vibrant acrylics inks onto the paper, dried it and then added glue and crumpled tissue, the next stage was rolling out the tissue, so that there were no air bubbles.

Here is Claire demonstrating another layer of colour, creating the idea of water and waves.

Today's key message was to remember to stand back and look at your painting now and again, as otherwise you sit on top of it and can lose perspective.

Here is the gallery of the fantastic paintings:

Below is the mixer full of lovely smelly herbs and tasty ingredients that I turned into a salsa verde to accompany our salmon at lunch, it smelt gorgeous.