The clocks may have gone back to sensible daytime hours (yes, I know you prefer light evenings) but it isn’t stopping our art.

Autumn Exhibition

Sat/Sun 9/10 November 2024 – Church Hall

Yes, it is far too late to enter now, but your help is still needed for stewarding, and most importantly getting everyone you know along to have a look. There will be artists doing their thing if you think the kids might be too bored just looking at things stuck on walls.

Other Activities

Wed 13 Nov 2024 – Drop-In Session – Community Large Hall – Details

Members are always welcome to drop in and get on with your own activities if you’d like company, or a warmer room than your own (not guaranteed). Bring your own equipment, and a mug, and something to protect the floor and furniture from paint splashes (and £5 towards to cost of the hall).

Sun 17 Nov 2024 – Life Drawing –  Church Hall 2-4pm Details

Let’s hope the heating holds up in the Church Hall for a new winter season of life models posing for our confoundment. Getting perspective right can be a challenge, and if you find a pose too difficult, you can move, or sit it out, but why not just give it a go?

Mon 18 November 2024 – Sketching Group

I’m really pleased the Sketching Group is keeping going while the weather holds. Yes, there have been one or two Mondays rained off, but on at least one occasion, they made an impromptu decision to postpone it to the Tuesday instead. Contact Lisa Marshall (details on the newsletters)

Wed 27 Nov 2024 – Zoom Demo – Les Darlow – winter landscapes in soft pastels over watercolour  – Details

This promises to be another excellent demonstration, with a tutor we have enjoyed in the past.

Zoom details will be sent to members a few days beforehand. If you haven’t used your Zoom since the spring, you will probably have to download a new version (that’s my excuse for being late to the last one. It took twenty minutes to load and process itself, even with the new ‘faster’ wifi connection.)

Workshops for 2025

Bev has circulated the sign-up form for our workshops in the first quarter of 2025. Please get yours in by 27th November if you want to participate in any of them. For a quick reminder of the menu, see the Workshops page here.

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September whizzed by in a whirl of excitement, plus whirling weather and a mini-Indian summer followed by rain. If you were trying to get any outdoor sketching done, you were lucky if you didn’t get wet!

October is more sedate, except that preparations are in hand for our Autumn exhibition at the Dovetail Centre Large Hall, over the Remembrance weekend. You need to get your entries entered (if you are a member you have been sent details), and your artwork ready to hand in!

And we finish the month with our first Zoom demonstration of the winter season. They all look particularly interesting, and ‘painting along’ is optional, but encouraged! You could always sketch, of course 🙂

October activities

Wednesday 9 Oct – Drop-In Session – Community Large Hall – Details

Saturday 12th October – Helen Talbot – Flour Paste art – details

Sunday 20 Oct – Life Drawing –  Church Hall 2-4pm Details

Monday 21st Oct – Sketching Group (details as per email)

Wednesday 23 Oct– Zoom Demo – Graham Webber ROI – East Anglia landscape in oils – Details

I was impressed with the artwork Graham Webber displays on his website – he has the North Norfolk coast light exactly right! Do check it out. Graham Webber

Header image (c) Graham Webber ROI

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