November's Gallery

It is really pleasing for me to see how some of the group members are not only continuing to practise their skills but also experimenting with styles and techniques.

  

Lyn

Marian

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 The Iris was done in coloured pencils following a step by step tutorial from a book.  Very time consuming and laborious, but I learned a lot about the application of colour and was pleased with the end result.

Machine - This one was done with a pastel pencil, which I found a bit easier than charcoal when it came to the finer detail.

Folding fabric - I like using charcoal and enjoyed drawing this one.

Rain - Judy says my Dalmation would have been put down at birth!  Perhaps I should stick to horses.

 

Halloween -  OK, not quite Halloween, but I could not resist this stone plaque in the Doges Palace, and it was used to denounce witches by posting the name through the mouth.  I used soft pastel sticks, quite messy but I think they represent the stone quite well.

Reflections - so many sketches I want to draw following my trip to Venice - the city of reflections - but sadly beyond my current capabilities.  This is of the lagoon, I used an underwash of pastel followed by detail in coloured pencil.  However I could not get the depth I wanted so I also highlighted with charcoal.  I was quite pleased with the foreground and the channel markers, but felt the background island did not work very well.

Judy

  

Not exactly a self portrait but my Mum with a hat! Taken from a photo of her taken when she was about 20 years old in her nurses uniform

Not a chimney but a lighthouse. I wanted to do the dark moody sky but think I need to learn to do clouds better.

Ok, maybe not a pet but it does have 4 legs even though you can't see them all

 

Grapes on a vine. Taken from a photo of our own vines.

November's Tasks

Catherine

Drew the olives first then painted them. 

Still not happy with olives as would like them to be more loose or less formal.

 

This is a view from the other end of our land looking at our house.

Would like to go on and paint this eventually !

The drawing of our house and land I really enjoyed doing and took a while. I did it from a photo.

Still enjoying myself though and have a long list of ideas waiting for me to have the time.