Article about Susan Harrison's exhibition

Session 18 December Cancelled

Sorry we have to cancel again, but at the moment it looks like it is to difficult to drive to the meeting place.

A super big Thanks to Jane Flux! she made it to the centre, she is absolute brilliant!

Merry Christmas to all, an see you again on 8 January!

Marina

Session 18 December 8 am update

Dear All,

I spoke yesterday with the model and with tha people tha hire us the room, and both are keen on keep the session on track. This morning it looks like the weather conditions are similar to yesterday's.I am checkingtha travel conditionsand the weather in East Grinstead.

I am expecting a phone call from the jubilee centre at 9 ish to confirm the room, so Please check the blog at 9.30 am for further news update.

Marina

The session on 4 December is canceled...

Dear all,
the session on 4 December is canceled due to the bad weather. So the next session, and last for 2010, will be on 18 December.
I hope to see you all there!
Marina

Richard - Sketches of Bella

Something a bit different this week. Bella brought along her cellos and we had a couple of sessions during which we drew while she played. I'm still working on my painting, but here are my sketches.

Michael: Bella and the cello

Bella and the cello. Both pencil on paper, approx A3.

Michael: Jo

Pencil on paper, A3

Saturday's work

Here are a few of the images from Saturday's session...

Kat:

 

Mine (Sheri)

 

Caryl:

Richard - Saturday Life

My picture of Jo from Saturday's Life Session.

Michael: Guy

My drawing of Guy from Saturday's life drawing session:



Pencil on paper, A3.

Karen's picture

More pictures from Saturday

Marina

Caryl

Richard - Saturday Life

My picture of Guy from Saturday's session.

More Pictures from Saturday

Karen's drawing and Caryl's painting from Saturday.

Richard - Saturday Life

Michael hard at work on his picture of Guy!

Sheri - today's painting

Here's my first stab at painting Guy. We're going to work on this pose again at the next session, so hope to put some arms in eventually though I'm not to do much more.. okay Marina!! (LOL)

Michael: Guy

Today at the life drawing group, everyone produced some inspired work with our new model. Here are my three warmup drawings, and a longer pose.







Pencil on paper, A4 or A3.

Richard - Saturday Life

My picture from Saturday's London Road Life session. Pen and acrylic on card.

Sheri - Life painting

Here's my oil sketch from Saturday's session. I like to think this is a warm up after the long summer.

Liz: life drawing

'You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.'



Manet 1880.

Michael: Back

Pencil on paper, A3.

There's a lot of space to fill in a back.

Thank you!

Thank you all for a lovely session last Saturday!
Pease let us know if you have any suggestions or comments on how to improve things....
x,Marina

First session

On Saturday we held our inaugural session with seven artists coming along and Jo taking the honours of being our very first model. We were pretty inefficient at getting set up for the first time, but it turned out to be great fun. Special thanks to Marina for organizing the attendees and much else, Michael for the baking, our hosts at the JCC for their helpfulness and everyone else for turning up. See you all next time!