We had people coming to class from all over today-- Sue, Jen and Peter (aged 12) came all the way from Wellesbourne Warwickshire-we first met when I did some demos for the art society there.
Diana's son bought her a gift voucher as a birthday present and I met Sally and Jenny on the local Market when we were up there a few weeks ago.
After checking out the previous results when we used other colours other than the grey-everyone decided to do either blue or brown-no one did the grey which was a first!
I think everyone thought I was being a bit mean with the paint when I first put out the colours ready to start-but they were all amazed by just how far the paint went! you can how little by the photo above.
As usual right form the start we had completely different painting's happening--its so interesting to see just how quickly the painting develops-we had a good selection of skies-stormy and calm!
The sea proved to be quite easy but there was bit of tutting and holding breath when we started to paint in the distant hills!Everyone was careful not to make them too big-or paint boobies in as sometimes happens--the amount of times a student has painted in two hills that look like a pair of boobs is amazing!
The next bit of the painting is usualy the hardest-using the painting knife--well this group seemed to have very little trouble at all with it--after just a couple of angles not being quite right all of them soon had the knack and made some beautiful waves.
I showed everyone how to make some simple rocks and grasses and I put in a tree as well--everyone went back to their paintings and did their rocks and grasses-and then decided they really liked their paintings without adding any trees! I must admit they did look stunning without-and least they saw how to do them for the future!
We had lots of laughs in class today--mainly about the state of Sally and Jens palettes--boy did they get them in a mess what they would be like with 6 colours on the palette I dont know!
Sally and Jen were already booked up to do the Waterfall painting on September 5th but enjoyed themselves so much decided they couldn't wait that long so have booked into the Winter Wonderland class on Aug 8th as well!Sallys Dad is going to have awonderful suprise tomorrow-she is planning on giving him the painting as a Fathers Day present--Im sure he will love it.
We will be seeing Sue, Jenny and Peter again to paint the Birches soon.
Its a shame the brown paintings havent shown up well on the final photographs-they look a bit pale on them, the blues have shown up better!
