Wellesbourne Art Society Demo

We had a lovely time in Wellesbourne over the past few days. We stayed at The Stag-a thatched roof pub, in Wellesbourne.

We went to the room at the fire station to do the demo.

Its a lovely big room, I had space to put up my stands with paintings on both sides, as well as some spaced around the walls.

There was a good crowd-many we had met before last November when we were there last time.

They also had some visitors from nearby art societies.

One of the members from last time bought along a painting that she did after being inspired by the demo the last time--she had made a lovely job of it!

I decided to paint a new picture that I had never tryed before in a demo.

Using just sap green and a touch of black I created a version of Serenity in Green- a landscape with water and trees.

It worked very well, everyone was amazed at the speed at which I managed to paint it!

I also painted a version of the waterfall on a black canvas.

There were lots of interesting questions asked!

Again, it was finished very quickly, I passed the paintings round to everyone to see just how much detail is in them.

Pictured are Sue (serenity) and Julie (waterfall) with the paintings they won in the raffle.

After a quick break for a chat and a coffee , I plugged in my encaustic iron and showed them the addictive craft of encaustic art.

Everyone was intrigued with it and soon the imagination of some of the members was working overtime as they had a go with the iron and waxes!

The club bought the complete set of encaustic equipment for the members to share, Im sure they will have a lot of fun with it all.

It also sounds like we will be having a group or two coming over to Ludlow to do a workshop in the near future.

While we were sat in the lounge of the pub this morning having breakfast, several very dressed up --- complete with fancy hats, ladies trooped in for a champagne breakfast before going off to Ascot in the very stretched limo that turned up outside! Great Fun!