looking forward to a week in the sun with some enthusiastic students at “The Casa Rosa” in Olháo a seaside town in the Algarve. We have 11 participants which means every room in the hotel is taken up and which means Pat and I have been farmed out to another hostelry just down the road! This is the first time I have worked with the people from “Friendship Holidays” who run the hotel. The biggest decision is what to take with me in the way of art materials without... Read More »
Delighted to report one of my submissions to the Deeside Art Group’s Annual exhibition was awarded a prize during the judging. My multi-media piece called “St Ives from Smeaton’s pier was the winning entry. Great Encouragement to try a few more artworks in this style.
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Enjoyed a lovely day with an enthusiastic bunch of artists from the Deeside art group. Because the usual venue was closed for refurbishment one of the group offered her beautiful home as the venue for the day which worked very well. In the morning I set a number of fun sketching tasks which the participants did in groups and which turned out to be expertly undertaken by everyone. The afternoon was focussed on a single sketch/picture which was after I did a demo piece looking at the summerhouse... Read More »