WORKSHOPS ON 27TH FEBRUARY

The workshops postponed from February 14th will now take place on February 27th.


The "Inks" workshop will take place at a later date and is replaced by a session led by Mary Maskell on painting either a still life or a subject of your own choice in any medium. More details from Di.


Don't forget the Adventurous Artists are meeting at Calshot on Friday (February 13th).

INK AND COLLAGE WORKSHOPS

THE WORKSHOPS TO BE HELD ON SATURDAY FEBRUARY 13TH HAVE BEEN POSTPONED.
WE are waiting for further information.

The next Adventurous Artists meeting will be at

Calshot Activities Centre Calshot Spit, Fawley  SO45 1BR  tel 023 8089 2077 on

Friday 12th Febuary 10.15 for 10.30 a.m. 

 We do not pay an entrance fee but we will have to pay car parking:

£2 for 2 hours and £3.50 for up to 4 hours.

 

Please telephone Di (07979905192) to enquire about lifts on or before Sunday 7th Feb. She will need time to arrange a pick up schedule.

 

 

Boutique Village Outing

Eight members came to the Boutique Village at Third Avenue Millbrook on 8th January  to sketch some of the items on display. It is a large industrial building  containing small exhibition compartments which are rented by different sellers. There are antiques, shabby chic home wares, clothing, crafts  and collectables - many displayed with great flair. The village traders  have a programme of activities over the next three months - including craft workshops.

See the Events page on their website: http://www.theboutiquevillage.com/#!events/ci7x

 

 We enjoyed a natter in the cafe (they call it tea rooms in their brochure) for the last hour  and there was plenty of space to sit together. The group is now meeting regularly on the morning of the second Friday in the month, so the next outing will be at 10.30 a.m. on the 12th February.



Kate is pleased with her sketch





Pam and Ros chat with Helen





Helen gets down to it

 





Joan hard at work

Adventurous Artists

Happy New Year everyone!
Our first get-together for 2016 is the Sketching group on Friday, January 8th. We meet at the Boutique Village Craft Centre,Millbrook at 10-15 for 10-30am. There is a café for a chat afterwards but bring a stool to sit on for sketching!


Our next Demonstration is on January 27th. with Brionny Luxton who will show us how to be "Adventurous with Art"

 

Teresa Rogers, our November guest artist, is extremely versatile, creating artwork not only in oils and other media, but also prints, collages, printed works, cards, coasters, fridge magnets and craftwork. 

Favourite techniques used by Teresa include collagraph or linocut prints using her own printing press. We saw one of her collagraphs -  a leaf shape cut from mount-board, scored with a scalpel, pieces of wallpaper stuck on top and the whole thing sealed with shellac button varnish. It would then have been inked with oil-based printing ink and pressed onto wet watercolour paper as many times as required.

Teresa showed us that layers of the mount-board peeled back create interesting textures. Other materials used for collagraphs include: dimpled polystyrene trays string, torn scrim or gauze, creased tissue paper, aluminium foil PVA glue which also acts as a resist - creating white shapes in the printed image. Teresa sometimes uses lace shapes as a background for wedding invitations.

The first demonstration piece was not a collagraph but a collage made with pieces of cut and torn wallpaper applied to mount-board with either matt acrylic medium or diluted PVA glue (which dries more slowly). They were then embellished with scrim, sequin waste, small stars and scraps of printed thin paper. Acrylic inks were applied for more tonal contrast. Daler Rowney Goldfinger Metallic Paste was rubbed onto some of the textured areas. (Silver Goldfinger is available in five colours) Teresa has boxes of sparkly materials to embellish her work.

 

 

Teresa Rogers, our November guest artist, is extremely versatile, creating artwork not only in oils and other media, but also prints, collages, printed works, cards, coasters, fridge magnets and craftwork. 

Favourite techniques used by Teresa include collagraph or linocut prints using her own printing press. We saw one of her collagraphs -  a leaf shape cut from mount-board, scored with a scalpel, pieces of wallpaper stuck on top and the whole thing sealed with shellac button varnish. It would then have been inked with oil-based printing ink and pressed onto wet watercolour paper as many times as required.

Teresa showed us that layers of the mount-board peeled back create interesting textures. Other materials used for collagraphs include: dimpled polystyrene trays string, torn scrim or gauze, creased tissue paper, aluminium foil PVA glue which also acts as a resist - creating white shapes in the printed image. Teresa sometimes uses lace shapes as a background for wedding invitations.

The first demonstration piece was not a collagraph but a collage made with pieces of cut and torn wallpaper applied to mount-board with either matt acrylic medium or diluted PVA glue (which dries more slowly). They were then embellished with scrim, sequin waste, small stars and scraps of printed thin paper. Acrylic inks were applied for more tonal contrast. Daler Rowney Goldfinger Metallic Paste was rubbed onto some of the textured areas. (Silver Goldfinger is available in five colours) Teresa has boxes of sparkly materials to embellish her work.

 

 

Teresa Rogers, our November guest artist, is extremely versatile, creating artwork not only in oils and other media, but also prints, collages, printed works, cards, coasters, fridge magnets and craftwork. 

Favourite techniques used by Teresa include collagraph or linocut prints using her own printing press. We saw one of her collagraphs -  a leaf shape cut from mount-board, scored with a scalpel, pieces of wallpaper stuck on top and the whole thing sealed with shellac button varnish. It would then have been inked with oil-based printing ink and pressed onto wet watercolour paper as many times as required.

Teresa showed us that layers of the mount-board peeled back create interesting textures. Other materials used for collagraphs include: dimpled polystyrene trays string, torn scrim or gauze, creased tissue paper, aluminium foil PVA glue which also acts as a resist - creating white shapes in the printed image. Teresa sometimes uses lace shapes as a background for wedding invitations.

The first demonstration piece was not a collagraph but a collage made with pieces of cut and torn wallpaper applied to mount-board with either matt acrylic medium or diluted PVA glue (which dries more slowly). They were then embellished with scrim, sequin waste, small stars and scraps of printed thin paper. Acrylic inks were applied for more tonal contrast. Daler Rowney Goldfinger Metallic Paste was rubbed onto some of the textured areas. (Silver Goldfinger is available in five colours) Teresa has boxes of sparkly materials to embellish her work.

 

Teresa’s second piece was an impressionist landscape, created with layers of paint and cut paper shapes. Paper pre-printed with fennel leaves made effective tree shapes in the foreground. Teresa enjoys using greens and blues in her work. She proposed to finish the work at home and varnish it with a layer of gloss acrylic medium or gloss varnish which would preserve the work and prevent the colours from fading.

There were questions about adapting Teresa’s techniques for those without access to a printing press. Teresa recommends scavenging wallpaper samples from DIY stores. Although it is not possible to create dark enough colours using water-based paints, Teresa suggested making coloured papers by crushing tissue paper onto glass coated with acrylic paints. Many natural materials, such as a cabbage leaf, will produce an interesting shape. We were all intrigued by Teresa’s very unusual artwork and members showed a keen interest in her displayed work.

Teresa’s studio gallery, where she also holds her art courses, are located at her Courtyard Studio in the Wilton Shopping Village three miles west of Salisbury (postcode SP2 0BH).

Teresa is pictured with one of her finished works.