We had a great time in class today as usual--a few people met up again after a break and Tony who was with us for the second time soon found he had 6 new friends!
As Tony had arrived early it was his job to make the tea and coffee while we got the class set up!
As the painting is done using acrylic paint rather than oils it dryed quickly-a bit too quick sometimes--but as soon as everyone had got the first coat onto the canvas it got a bit easier!
Everyone found it funny to be able to use such large amounts of paint on this painting-they are all used to using such small amounts on the oil paintings --Im always telling them-not much paint on the brush-so I had to keep encouraging some to use plenty of it so there were no dry brush marks on the canvas.
We used a new shape canvas for this painting too-a nice chunky deep edge one that suited the new painting subject beautifully.We were able to paint all of the sides, so there wil be no need to frame them.
There were a variety of colours used-Jan and Tony chose to use the grey, Pauline and myself used the purple and Chris,Jack,Bev and Doreen used the blue.
When it came to putting the moon in Chris came up with the idea of using something to draw round-which was a bit of a cheat-but we let him do it!
He used the bottom of the water containers, so Chris, Paulines and Jans moons are all bigger than the rest who did it free hand! He got a lot of ribbing from us I can tell you!(as usual)
You could cut the concentration with a knife when the moons were being done-I think everyone stopped breathing for a while while they were done!
The trees and foliage were the last things to be done- Jan had the advantage over everyone as she has quite shaky hands, which she was worried about before she came to her first class--I had assured it it would be fine-and it was!
Jans trees were beautiful, she didn't have to try to hard to get some lovely wobbly branches , something the others had to try really hard to do!
Chris bought along a painting he has done at home--he had told me he was doing one when he saw us on the craft market.
Its completely different to any class subject we have done in class-a brick wall with ivy and flowers on it.It really is stunning .He worked very had to get all the different shades in the brick work and ivy leaves.
Im very proud of him.Well Done Chris.
As I was busy supervising everyone else during the first stage of the painting I had to ask Bill to carry on doing my painting-he made a lovely job of it and enjoyed it as well.
I shall have to watch him-he will be after his own canvas and brushes if Im not careful.
I have got to have a look and see if I can change the date on one of the classes in the near future--4 of them have booked up for the new birch tree pool class in Sept but they are all disappointed they have to wait til then, as they have done all of the class subjects so far. I have had a look at some of my paintings and have found one they haven't done-so I will be ringing them to see if they want to do Winters Walk soon.
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