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June 2020

Pencil skills and mark making.

I hosted the Ponterwyd Art Club evening last night. Using sketching pencils we discussed their respective qualities, uses and had fun making the following library of marks.

Hard and soft pencils.
These are common terms used to describe marks.
Every one then drew a circle and used Mark’s to turn it into a ball. Then I added a few more so it could become an orange.
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Coffee painting

This weeks Ponterwyd Art Club Challenge was to paint using coffee. I did two small paintings. I don’t drink coffee and found the smell overpowering. Here are my paintings, I don’t know how long the image will stay clear before it fades.

Sleeping dog in coffee.
Comical Hare in coffee.
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Amid the stress of present life, listen to the calming sea.

Limited to 5 mile journey in Wales for non essential travel. I need to travel 12 miles to shop, so when I do my shopping, I take a walk to the seafront.

Aberystwyth absolutely amazing.
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Collage

Collage is an assemblage, a piece of art made by sticking together a variety of materials. It began when paper was invented in China 200BC.

Picasso used collage in his art.

Henri Mattise used scissors to create art.

Henri Matisse.
This simple collage was created by cutting magazine photographs and reassessing them.
These are the tools I use, a cutting mat, a sharp craft knife, tweezers, a crinkle gadget, double sided sticky tape.
A very simple collage using different coloured papers, cutting and sticking.
At the end of the day. A slightly more complex collage using a variety of materials.
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First painting for months.

Lockdown proved an even less stimulating time for art in the form of painting. We had just started back to Art Club Ponterwyd after the winter break when it happened.

I had an invitation from Cefn Croes Winfarm Trust to trial meetings on Zoom. Trepidation followed, I love ICT but am always wary of new innovations. I canvassed the membership, got invitations sent out and panicked. Now friends from my teaching days may not associate that word with me, I was always good at hiding panic. The meeting drew near and it worked. Basically we had a verbal ball. We talked about the future and I set a challenge. Inside outside picture medium of individual choice. Taken from work I had seen by David Hockney and Cornish artist Sarah Bowman.

I set the challenge so I had to do the work too. I started with my little blue jug from the windowsill.

My first sketch a little blue jug.
I don’t like sketching under the work so I create a reference sketch in my book. I annotated this with colour references. I also use this as I go along to practice, in this case leaves drawn with felt pen.
I was using watercolour paper so masking tape to a clipboard (I have posh wooden ones somewhere but couldn’t find them)
I do a watercolour wash like this one, it gives the shapes I need.
I used watercolour pencils to create more image, then add depth with the neo colour watersoluble wax pastels. Finally use the drawing fibre tips to put in fine detail.
My final painting.
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Lockdown Art Crochet

When lockdown started I found it difficult to concentrate, I simply couldn’t settle.

A friend was short of wool for her project, I decided to open my wool stash. The nearest bag yielded some of what she was after and lots of crochet cotton from when I made flowers.

I looked for patterns, couldn’t find anything so decided to look on you tube. I typed in shell stitch as it was a favourite for making baby blankets, my mother used to do them. Found a pattern with an American accent, struggled at first to follow her instructions but this is what followed

Delicate crochet cotton centre.
In the pink.
Dramatic Colour Contrasts, my favourite.
Something that helped me and is beautiful.

I still have more crochet cotton in the stash, proving stashing is good practice and should be maintained. Lots of mine was bought as odd balls on offer and some from charity/goodwill shops

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