The Gorge WI Ironbridge.

We went over to Ironbridge yesterday to do the first demo of the year...Maureen the club secretary has been to quite a few of my workshops after we met at Ludlow market over a year ago..so she recommended me to the organiser Ann..we put up the display of paintings and greetings cards as well as it was quite a big room.I was able to do my demo first before the ladies did they meeting and then we stopped for coffee and did the raffle for the paintings. There were quite a few ladies who painted already there so there were some questions from the audience about the techniques I used.I painted the usual pictures I use for demos--The Waterfall and Summers Day as they use a wide variety of techniques and brushes to achieve the picture-they are also very quick for me to do as I have had lots of practise doing them....I actually had the waterfall picture done in less than 20 mins right from blank canvas to signing it much to everyones amazement,,,,the Summers Day took a little longer at 25 minutes! That left 15 nmins for me to chat to the ladies about the workshops in more detail.

the paintings were passed around after so everyone could take a closer look..

Elizabeth won the Summer Day and Jenny The Waterfall... we will see one of the ladies here at Ludlow for the Stormy Skies and it looks like we may go over there and do a workshop with the ladies as well...

Bridgnorth and District Art Society Demo- Wed 14th Dec

After a busy day on Ludlow market yesterday we rushed home  and got everything ready for the demonstration at Bridgnorth and District Art Society.. we arrived at 6.50 pm and were met by Sandie who had organised the evening.She kindly helped us unload the van..We soon had everything set up in the room -stands with paintings on , photos of students etc.

 

I did my usual demonstration of The Waterfall and Summer Day..both went down well with the audience and there were lots of interesting questions asked ..I think everyone was surprised at the speed of the technique ,and also the lack of horrible smell that can accompany some oil painting demonstrations when the artist uses ordinary turps! Why some artists still use the smelly stuff amazes me---its very nasty stuff-very bad for you and your health! I always use low odour white spirit to avoid that!

The winners of the rafffle...Ann on the left was over the moon when her number was drawn...I thought we were going to have a few tears there for a minute...she had been over chatting after I had finished painting and had been saying how she would love to win the Summer Day painting! Her hubbys number was drawn next --it was their lucky night  but they kindly let someone else have a go for the Waterfall painting! Sandie won that painting and she was going to donate  it to one of the members who was at home poorly--what a lovely gesture.We had a lovely evening and the time flew by...we had a lovely moonlit drive home--and a lie in this morning which was just great! For once the phone didnt ring or the postman kock the door...and I woke up when I had slept enough!