Big Roses

Phew - last time I actually remembered to bring some examples of roses - and the aquarellista's present painted like crazy all afternoon!! We did a fabulous job, as you can see below:

Big Rose I by Cathie van der Stel

Big Rose II by Cathie van der Stel
(not yet finished - will be portrait or landscape together with another rose...)

Rose & broken heart by Birgitta Engvall

Lily by Bibbi Isaksson

(it is huge and still has "the light" - wonderful work)

Pink Rose by just-joined Aquarellista! Beverly Ellsly - great to have her as a new member

And I did 2 experiments, one "graphical" - monochrome with lines and surfaces only - is that still a rose? I think so...

And one in a non-rose colour. Still a rose, but a bit artificial looking..

Tomorrow we meet up again and will do vertical shapes and forms! More about that in the next post...

Unfinished projects II

Iris part one by Brenda... Because there were no examples of roses, she took up another flower. This first attempt looks great already, but it is very small. Coming Tuesday she will start with a bigger version - maybe. Might be in the "cartoon-style" she has been developing lately. Or she begins with a big rose too...

Honeysuckle by Anna-Karin Fast, painted in her recognizable natural, lighthearted style

Bibbi took an impressionist painting and used the flowers in it as example to inspire her to this attractive aquarelle - which may change during the week - she's not completely ready with it...

Peonie of Lies Timmermans - she made two versions and used it as practice for next week's big roses

Aquarelle Experiments - and unfinished projects

What's this then? - No "Big Rose", this is an experiment: Sandra thought of using kitchen paper on watercolour paper to achieve "relief"... The results may not all be as beautiful - but when dried up, they looked at least promising. Worth looking a bit further into!

As you may remember we were going to do good-sized paintings of big roses. I promised to take examples with me and... I forgot. (Brought everything else though :). We'll now do "big roses" next session, and worked on other projects last Tuesday. Here are some results, mostly unfinished projects:

Rooster by Marina Teding van Berkhout - look at the beautiful plume-tail, very typical Marina style!
First big rose -with tiny dewdrop, by Cathie van der Stel. She finishes this week, look forward to the result!

Next to her kitchen paper experiment, Sandra started a portrait of two special roses - a female figure with dried rose

Ann will start a rose coming Tuesday - And may finish this gorgeous waterlily. I wonder if she should "finish" it - actually it looks great as it is now!

Next post will present you the work of Lies, Bibbi, Brenda and Anna-Karin

Expo Chateauneuf

The past two weeks have been dedicated to the show in Chateauneuf - many aquarellista's took their turn in having "permanence" in the gallery, and now it's over! We cleared out everything today, and looking back I think we can say it was a great success. All visitors were impressed with the quality of the work and lots of them left messages in our "show book" with very positive comments! The dust has settled now and we're going to have our "rentree" session coming Tuesday... We're going to paint roses, as Aquarellista's do - but different, in fact, very big. We'll keep you posted with the results...

Exhibition in Chateauneuf - the Vernissage!

And then the expo opened...We started with great drinks and appetizers and an informal speech "en Provençal" by the mayor of Chateauneuf (R), who by the way told us he was very impressed by the quality of the work - and he wasn't making that up: he is going to write an article in the Chateauneuf Newspaper about it!! (I'll make sure I get that and scan it and post it - with a translation)

After the mayor's words, the president of our atelier, Anton Dikken (L) spoke -with quite a bit of humor in it - and that left the audience in such a good mood that some good deals were done on paintings - and especially those of the aquarellista's I might add (I am proud of you)!!

A lot of people visited the vernissage, but also the following days there has been a lot of interest!

The show is on until Sunday September 13th 4PM, if you haven't been, don't forget to pass by, the art is great, truly worthwhile!