Sketch Soho Saturday, March 29, 2014

Not sure I'm going but 50 people drawing in Soho is certainly worth seeing...

http://www.meetup.com/Drawing-London-on-Location/events/172733472/?a=me1_grp&rv=me1&_af_eid=172733472&_af=event

Don't panic - Painting 2

The next painting module is not til Thursday 1st May, but Hilary already put this on Moodle for the Tuesday group.

It does involve some preparatory sketching/painting before the first class, so I thought it was worth posting here.

Painting Project 2014 CLFA year I

This project is to encourage you to gather and formulate research to enable you to further your artistic practice plus working from memory and observation.

Please make a series of images i.e. drawings, using charcoal, pencil, oil pastels or coloured pencils etc of a room in your house or flat i.e. a kitchen or a bedroom which you occupy at present. I.e. direct observation

The drawing / images can be of part of the room, i.e. what is near the window, a view out of the window, what the furniture looks like, i.e.. Details of the bed, chair/ colours in the room simple annotated drawings and colour swatches. 

Digital images can be used as aide memoires but it would be really useful to draw and make graphic/painterly images from the chosen subjects to create research material 

I suggest no less than 8- 10 of these images please plus digital 

The other part oaf the project is to recall the same kind of imagery from your memory, a room from a previous time in your life. Maybe childhood or when you were a teenager /student

So these second set of drawing will be formed from fragments of imagery from memories remembered from a bedroom or kitchen recalling the atmosphere in the room, recalling some of the furniture.

  I suggest you draw the images from memory using the same media as the room at in your present living accommodation. Please try to make about 6-8   0f these images. 

 When we are in the studio, please bring these drawings with you. I would like you to start building these images into a series of small juxtaposition paintings using various paint handling methods a specific colour paint palettes.   For example , using opaque/ transparent layering of paint.  Also we will be experimenting with different mediums to use with the oil paint. 

   Many thanks.

            Hilary

PM listeners' sounds - Send your favourite sounds to the BBC

Sounds can be even more evocative than sight. Radio 4 is archiving their listener's favourite sounds. What is yours, a purring cat, bird song, waves crashing on the beach...check out the archives and nominate your own!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01q81ld

Try the egg cutter song!

Dulwich Art Group Painting and Drawing sessions

I used to go to this place on Thurs evening before City Lit. This is untutored but artists-led, they are a social bunch and there's a voluntary constructive crit at the end.


Sea Scout Hut, Greendale, Dulwich, SE22 8TX
 

Drop-In Groups - click on the links below

Wednesday 12th March 12.00-3.00pm
Thursday 13th March 7.00-9.30pm
Saturday 16th March 10.00am -1.00pm

Is it not a huge relief to see the sun again? Nature looks like it's kicking off, can you feel your creative sap rising?

The Wednesday Introduction to Life drawing continues at 7.30pm and we've got the second week of our Portrait Workshop on Sunday at 10.00am. Both groups are full. Also thank you to all of you who came to our nude wrestlers session and helped to make it such a fun event. The quality of work was exceptional and the wrestlers were very professional, making our job easier than I'd imagined, a tremendous evening all round. If you missed it don't fret, we had such a good time we'll certainly be doing it again.
 

Linocut workshop, UCL

from Sally

We hope you can join us for the following activity taking place this week:
13 March, 1 - 2:30pm
Make a Linocut for UCL Art Museum
Join us in the South Cloisters for a drop-in introduction to linocut printing with artist Ling Chiu and help us produce learning material in the process. During this lunch-hour workshop you will learn how to make a block and how to print from it. Your block will be added to a learning pack that will go to schools across London for young people to learn about printing and UCL Art Museum's collection.
Best,

Martine

Dr Martine Rouleau
Learning and Access Officer
UCL Art Museum
South Cloisters
University College London
London
WC1E 6BT
+44 (0)20 7679 2540
m.rouleau@ucl.ac.uk

First Thursday

Pat proposed that we can take advantage of our Thursday by going on a First Thursday East London Gallery tour. 

The galleries also often have their Private Views on Thursday - free wine and crisps!

Next date is Thursday 6 April. We could meet at  Aldgate East tube by the Whitechapel.

The website has an art map that you can use to plan your route, and a "Top 5" list of suggested galleries to visit this month.

It's worth having a look at the website first to see what interests you.