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TUESDAY 18TH MARCH - FIONA HOOPER - DEPICTING GLASS IN OILS



Fiona is an experienced artist who in addition to demonstrating her painting techniques provides useful tips on tools and application of paint


For our tuesday evening demonstration Fiona set up a Still Life of nectarines in a glass bowl which she then proceeded to paint using oils and palette knives


Fiona uses a limited palette of colours and for her background to the still life combined a little of each colour mixed with white to provide interest and harmony


She made this look effortless and the end result was stunning all completed in less than two hours


Thank you Fiona for yet another excellent demonstration

JC



Laying in the background with all the palette colours mixed with white



Filling in foreground and within the glass bowl



Adding Quinacridone Rose and shadows



Addition of Indian Yellow



Adding shadows within the glass bowl



Highlights and Shadows added to complete the picture - Fiona Hooper



TUESDAY 21ST FEBRUARY - MELANIE CAMBRIDGE - WOODLAND SCENE IN OILS



Melanie is an experienced artist and has been teaching art for over twenty five years through courses and publication of instruction books


She is drawn to wide open spaces to capture light and atmosphere which was demonstrated through her depiction of a bluebell wood


Melanie is very knowledgeable and has developed her own range of paints and brushes




Mapping out with ultramarine blue on Acrylic magenta background



Blocking in background and shade



Adding Greens and shadows



Adding Foliage with cold wax for impasto



Adding sky and light



Adding variety of Blues



Finished picture - Melanie Cambridge



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SUE BRADLEY - WATERCOLOUR WORKSHOP 15TH FEBRUARY



Sue Bradley - Venetian Mask Demonstration



Watercolour using masking fluid and splash technique



Sue Bradley - Finished Mask Painting



Watercolour using masking fluid and splash technique



Sue Bradley - Flamenco Dancer



Watercolour using splash technique



TUESDAY 21ST JANUARY 2025 - CHISLEHURST ARTISTS AGM



Chislehurst Artists held their AGM where the Chair and Treasurer reports were received


Jacky Franklin out going Chair told members that 2024 had been a successful year with a variety of activities and she thanked Gwenyth Wheeler for organising the Saturday Life sessions and Wendy Russell plus Gail Murray for the Still Life sessions


Wendy Russell was also thanked for organising the programme of demonstrations and workshops


Jan Clayton was elected as the new Chair of Chislehurst Artists who then thanked Jacky for her valuable contribution to Chislehurst Artists as their Chair from 2019 to 2024


The evening was rounded off with a bring and buy and an opportunity to socialise



TUESDAY 19TH NOVEMBER - RODNEY KINGSTON - STILL LIFE IN OILS



Rodney studied art and design at Wimbledon School of Art then completed a degree in graphic design at Camberwell College of Arts


He then worked as a Graphic Designer on weekly print publications


Rodney is now a full time professional Oil Painter who prefers to work from life using traditional oils


For our demonstration Rodney used oil paint paper prepared with gesso and plotted out the still life objects with thinned down paint


From here background shadows were placed before working between cool and warm tones


Rodney is a contributor to The Artist magazine and appeared in Sky Arts Portrait of the Year 2019 and Landscape Artist of the Year 2017


Rodney thank you for a very interesting demonstration providing us with lots

of useful tips



Prepared Board and Still Life



Adding Shadows and Blocking in Shapes



Blocking in Colour



Addition of Mid Tones



Highlights Added



Rodney Kingston - Finished Picture



TUESDAY 15TH OCTOBER - CURTIS TAPPENDEN

A COASTAL SCENE IN WATERCOLOUR



Curtis is a well known performance artist and painter so this evening we were treated to a combination of his poetry and informative watercolour demonstration


His preference is to paint en plein air and for this demonstration he chose a scene of Margate to show us how he plans and progresses his work


Curtis explained that he does not usually do any under drawing but prefers to rough out the shapes on the horizon with blue paint which will disappear into the painting


He has a unique style where he scrumbles the paint into the paper to feel its scratchiness and uses a limited colour palette


Curtis works quickly allowing the strong colours to mix on the paper rather than on a palette giving a fresh and vibrant finish to his paintings


Thank you Curtis for an entertaining and informative evening

JC



Roughing out the horizon in blue paint



Colour added to sky and foreground



Building up detail



Adding more colour



Adding detail to background and foreground



Finished Picture - Curtis Tappenden