Sunflowers Workshop March 30th

This was a new class subject...and the students had a choice of background colours..although everyone chose to do the green background--they also had a choice of composition too...everyone enjoyed creating the background--its a very free, loose style and they had a lot of fun doing it! Here is Sara-nearly finished..

Margaret is Sara's mum... it was their 3rd time painting..and confidence is growing every time...

Jenny used a touch of blue alone with her greens and ochres and it worked really well..

Jennifer was bought alone by her Mum Mo and sister Tracey....she hadn't painted since school...and was amazed by what she created--it will have pride of place in her kitchen which is decorated with sunflowers!

Tracey's sunflowers are really jumping out of the canvas!

Mo making a start on the sunflowers....

lots of concentration going on here..

the styles of the sunflowers were as different as each person painting..fascinating to see how they all differ...we had every sort--from fluffy to spikey!!!

the flowers were done in several layers, adding more texture each time...

 I didn't have time to finish my own painting because I was busy supervising everyone else-Bill stepped in and added a bit more  for me...

After the painting came the real fun bit...adding the melted wax detail...

some used a couple of shades of gold wax with some brown but then the silver came into play--and boy did it look good--it was at this point that we realised that when viewed through sunglasses the paintings looked like they were moving..it really was very odd! We also realised that the paintings looked great hanging 'portrait' way up as well as landscape--and for that reason we decided not to add stalks to them!

Wonderful results and I will be setting another date for this one in November...