Pauline Cherrett Chinese Painting 4.9.13

An unusual demonstration tonight with Pauline Cherrett Chinese painting which is quite a precise way of painting using set strokes with specialised brushes and inks on bamboo paper or silk, very different from watercolour or acrylic painting Pauline talked us through the complexities and demonstrated the techniques fascinating demonstration thank you Pauline we all enjoyded the demonstration.

John Heywood Demonstration in Liquitex 7.8.13

Virginia Water Art Society saw a demonstration by John Heywood in Liquitex Acrylic medium and watched while John created the painting from scratch using a pencil sketch that he had done earlier.  John talked us through the process of his painting and gave us tips and hints along the way, his method of creating reflections in water had us all spell bound and we thoroughly enjoyed his demonstration.

What a fantastic day we had with Jo Louca in the water colour workshop on Saturday we all opted to recreate the picture that Jo demonstrated not just because it was a really good painting but Jo had been kind enough to give us all copies of her stage by stage paining giving all the information about the way each stage was produced. It made a marvellous reference to work by and at each stage Jo demonstrated the techniques she used.  We all took our references home so that we could apply the methods to one of our own compositions. It was one of the best workshops I have ever attended Jo was so attentive to each of us helping us through the various stages of our work provide water sprays reference material and handouts. Below are the results of our hard work but in the main the day was good fun and we learnt a lot thank you Jo.