#lakelandcontourlines

After a few weeks of heavy rain, the lake had overflowed.  Usually, in these circumstances, it would be too muddy and boggy to walk beside the lake but the very cold weather had frozen the flooded parts in increments and created icy contour lines in the water.  #lakelandcontourlines

Seasons greetings

 Have a purrfect Christmas and all best wishes for 2023.  Cx

painting with paper

Unintentionally, we made landscapes reminiscent of war artist, Paul Nash's work.

What started as making a winter's landscape became desolate when vertical elements were added - interesting.

Well done John & thank you for your company.

 

John (paper on A3 card)

Christine (paper on A3 card)

 

undercover portraits in coloured pencil

As a warm-up exercise, we drew with our less dominant hand and then our dominant hand under a tea towel so we couldn't see what we were drawing.  

We then made an observational drawing of the same subject.  

We repeated this process with a different subject. 

The observational drawings are below.

This was fun to do, and we finished with some exceptional work.

Well done everyone! 

John by Christine

John by Debbie

Monica by Debbie

Monica by John

Debbie by John

Christine - demo page

Christine - demo page

John by Monica

Debbie by Monica

 

observational drawings exploding into contrasts

After a dodgy start - who thought folding paper could be so tricky - we made observational drawings of drinking straws.  These were then exploded by drawing imaginary centre folds.

The mad & wonderful drawings are below.

Well done everyone! 

[The coin is to hold the folded paper flat for the photo and to give a sense of size.]

Monica

Monica:  straw to peashooter

John

John

Debbie

Debbie

Christine & demo

Christine:  to piña colada