Today's class was something of a family affair-- We had Mr Derby of Old Barn Print, Stanton Road,Ludlow who does all my printing needs for me--posters, leaflets etc ,along with his wife Marion, daughter Jeanna and a friend of Marions- Jan.
Marion and Jan had seen me at one of the local WI demos that I did last year and decided they fancied a go!
It was a very laid back class as usual, after a coffee and some chocolate biscuits to start , we got stuck in to painting.
Everyones painting became very individual to them straight away as always happens.
Peter was quite bold with his use of colour while his daughter was quite light-handed with it.
Jan seemed the most nervous of the four of them, but settled down quickly!!.
When it came to painting the hills, Marions took on the appearance of the Welsh Coast while Peters was most distinctly Mediterranean.
Everyone had fun with the painting knife, it took some getting the hang of to get the pressure and angles right with it but everyone got there in the end.As I told them all -"its not something you have come across before,so it will take some practise to use it easily." Once we sorted out the angle to hold it , everything went well.
Its amazing to see how different the waves turn out, when the paint is pulled from the back of the wave with the fan brush it really shapes up!!
Marion decided to paint marigolds in her painting as a change from poppies, while the other tree did some beautiful poppies in theirs.
Peters grasses turned into wild onion heads bobbing around in the breeze, very effective and in keeping with his bold colour and style.
Everyone went away happy with their "Summer Day " Paintings.
Unfortunatly the weather decided to pour down at the end of class so we had an interesting 10 mins with 2 big unberellas , transporting paintings to the car! It was interesting to see that none of the students bothered about getting wet, just worried about their paintings getting wet!
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