At our meeting on July23 rd., with a change to the
programme, we welcomed John Rosser from Poole .
John is an entertaining speaker and started by relating the
story of how he "lost" a painting given to him by Francis Bacon. He
used to share a studio with Bacon and slept in a roll of canvas!
Now living at Sandbanks he works outside and paints views of
the beach especially as seen from his house. This was the subject of his main
demonstration picture. First he showed us his working method by drawing the
audience. Using felt-tip pens, he sketches first in one colour then refines the picture in a second
colour so removing any mistakes.
For his beach scene he did a basic drawing in turquoise
using gouache. He then put more detail in the picture starting with the sky and
using a few appropriate colours. All the time he was very careful not to loose
areas of light. He finished with a small brush to put in a few foreground
details. The result was a beautiful
impressionistic beach scene full of light and life.
Sketch of the audience
John with his beach scene near completion
Another of John's paintings
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