More Mixed media, Colour and Celebrations
We are at the end of week two already and I can't believe how exhausting it is standing in front of an easel all day. But then again, I suspect that professional artists rarely have to complete a piece of work in one day. Even my feet seem to have become half a size larger with all the standing! Either that or my shoes are shrinking because of the continuous rain. In fifteen days we have only had two days of fine weather. And its a shame as this place is truly beautiful as you can see in some photos taken by Renee, my brother's partner.
This was a week for celebrations. One of the students celebrated her 68th birthday and we had both Halloween on Tuesday and Ullapool Community Fireworks on Friday.
Hannah and Rosanna, two of the younger students, came to class like this.
The other local somewhat smaller zombies were out in force wearing sheets and green hair dye, tricking and treating for Scotland and desperately hoping for lots of chocolate.
There was a hallowe'en disco for primary aged children in the village hall.
I was on my own in the main studio at 8.45pm finishing a piece of work and could hear them all next door having a wonderful time.
We are expected to leave the studio by 9.00pm. The others had already left for the night. I had cleared away and was collecting my coat. Bar one light in the corridor the rest of the building was in total darkness.
Suddely there was a resounding crashing in the main studio followed by several less violent ones. I was the only person in the building.
I went back to the main studio just in time to see a china plate slide off the display and shatter on the floor followed by a small blue and white vase and a large enamel jug! There was no-one there but I took everything else off the display, cleared up the broken china, left a quick note for the course director who would wonder what or who had destroyed one of her set - ups and I beat a hasty retreat home. It was hallowe'en after all.
The week was spent working with mixed media and colour. For collage work we had to first paint all the collage papers ourselves making sure that we had correctly observed the coloured we would need.
These two are my end results. We are still working from the original still life set-ups except of course, the one decimated on Hallowe'en.
The rest of the week was spent on using pastels - a medium I like
You can see the join in this one because half way through the day we were all told to stop work and add a much bigger piece of paper and to extend the composition. This became a very big piece and took all day
And this was done on three sizes of circles on black and brown sugar paper
The last exercise of the week was to cover a large sheet of cartridge paper with random colours and then to paint an observational still life on top of it.
And finally off to the Ullapool Bonfire and firework celebrations. It seemed as if the whole village was there. The fire was massive and on the shore.
There was a hog roast and various other foodie stalls.The Cats Protection League ladies sold hot chocolate , there was a sweet things table featuring toffee apples, Scottish tablet, cupcakes and marshmallows dipped in chocolate on sticks and - my favourite obviously - the local Freemasons had a table selling hot mulled wine and gingerbread.
Hannah and Rosanna, two of the younger students, came to class like this.
The other local somewhat smaller zombies were out in force wearing sheets and green hair dye, tricking and treating for Scotland and desperately hoping for lots of chocolate.
There was a hallowe'en disco for primary aged children in the village hall.
I was on my own in the main studio at 8.45pm finishing a piece of work and could hear them all next door having a wonderful time.
We are expected to leave the studio by 9.00pm. The others had already left for the night. I had cleared away and was collecting my coat. Bar one light in the corridor the rest of the building was in total darkness.
Suddely there was a resounding crashing in the main studio followed by several less violent ones. I was the only person in the building.
I went back to the main studio just in time to see a china plate slide off the display and shatter on the floor followed by a small blue and white vase and a large enamel jug! There was no-one there but I took everything else off the display, cleared up the broken china, left a quick note for the course director who would wonder what or who had destroyed one of her set - ups and I beat a hasty retreat home. It was hallowe'en after all.
The week was spent working with mixed media and colour. For collage work we had to first paint all the collage papers ourselves making sure that we had correctly observed the coloured we would need.
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These two are my end results. We are still working from the original still life set-ups except of course, the one decimated on Hallowe'en.
The rest of the week was spent on using pastels - a medium I like
You can see the join in this one because half way through the day we were all told to stop work and add a much bigger piece of paper and to extend the composition. This became a very big piece and took all day
And this was done on three sizes of circles on black and brown sugar paper
The last exercise of the week was to cover a large sheet of cartridge paper with random colours and then to paint an observational still life on top of it.
And finally off to the Ullapool Bonfire and firework celebrations. It seemed as if the whole village was there. The fire was massive and on the shore.
There was a hog roast and various other foodie stalls.The Cats Protection League ladies sold hot chocolate , there was a sweet things table featuring toffee apples, Scottish tablet, cupcakes and marshmallows dipped in chocolate on sticks and - my favourite obviously - the local Freemasons had a table selling hot mulled wine and gingerbread.
Sounds as though you're having a lot of fun.
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