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The Summer’s Over…

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… and we can get back to painting rain, storms, puddles and all the other things we haven’t seen for a while!

We also finished our Summer Exhibition and HOS25 studio. Thank you to everyone who exhibited or took part in the studio section – it was really rocking at times! Also welcome to all those who are now following this website, and hopefully your enquiry about membership has already been dealt with.

Here’s a selection of memories from August, which is followed by the usual monthly update.

… and here comes September

It does not often happen, but we start with a free week! Grab your art kit and get out between showers for a quick sketch – the theme for the month is action/sport.

The first event of the month is on Wednesday 10th, the Drop-In Session at the Community Large Hall on Hursley Road (members only)- Details

On Saturday 13th, Jill Iliffe will be doing a workshop, for which we have some places remaining. Contact Bev if you would like to join in (this may be available to non-members who have already contacted us about membership) The workshop is called ‘Kingfisher in Oils/Acrylics’ and it will be at the Dovetail Centre Hall. Details

Our Sketching Group will be out and about on Monday 16th. Hope for good weather, or at least a nice place with shelter!

Sunday 21st see our monthly Life Drawing resume in the Dovetail Centre.  We have been using the hall, but I think it may be moving to Meeting Room 3 (where we had the HOS studio) where the heating is alleged to be more reliable. The life drawing booking sheet went out in early summer, so if you missed it, you’ll have to join a waiting list. Watch out for the new year’s sign up list, which will be out soon. Details

Finally, we finish the month with our last Live Demo of the year, on Wednesday 24th, when Rebecca Hurst will be demonstrating Something Large (all will be revealed!) in the Methodist church, where there is a lovely video feed set-up so you can see the details wherever you sit. (visitors welcome, for a small charge) Details

Chris Tappenden Workshop – a monoprinting blast!

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by Bev Dunstan

Curtis provided the Group with an amazing Monoprinting workshop on Saturday 10th March 2024.  After demonstrating the basic techniques, everyone had the opportunity to try for themselves, pulling the monoprint and then the ghost print from the inked plate.

He generously provided the plates, inks and paper and there were soon plenty of examples spread across the floor as people perfected the art of inking up the plate and scribing the image onto the paper before removing the paper and seeing the resulting print.

An alternate method, known as Additive Process, was introduced.  This required the artist to paint the image on the plate.  The paper was then applied and pulled to provide the mirror image of the print.

The final technique of Subtractive Monoprinting was demonstrated by Curtis.  In this method the ink was applied over the plate and then the image was developed in negative by removing the ink from the plate using various tools.  Placing and pulling the paper then produced the Monoprint as a negative image.

The 6 hours flew by as everyone gained confidence in applying ink and using different textured tools, including lego tyres, potato mashers, embossed wallpaper and dried leaves to produce some wonderful pieces of work.