Scarecrows for Halloween! In watercolours

Sylvie painted a scarecrow you wouldn't want to meet in a deserted area!! In Sepia and black...

Last session the suggested subject was 'Scarecrows' - related to Halloween an actually on request...

Most of us worked on really scary ones - and scary they are 🎃, but there is of course also a friendly variation. Shown here below.

This is Celina's scarecrow. Note that she used Ocre and Red which makes this painting a collectors' item: she hardly ever uses them! Maybe because they are a bit threatening. Very halloween-atmospheric in this case.

Corinne started this friendly looking scarecrow - it will not scare the crows away, you want to be friends with it! And as a watercolour it is so lovely and well-done.

Corinne brought her granddaughter Chloë, who has clearly inherited the talent. What a lovely painting she created, using the same inspiration as her 'mami'...

And the prize for the creepiest scarecro-painting goes to Shirley! Fantastic, I guess it will scare even the spiders. She created this almost entirely with Mars Black and a straw! 
Shirley

 

Anna Karin created this fabulous pumpkin, with an interesting reflection and a good and interesting background, with a signature 'stripe' that adds just that little bit of mystery

Randi started this scary scarecrow! It is not at all finished but looks so good already! Hope to show you the finished one next week..

And we finish this chapter with a sexy witch on a broom! From Vanessa wishing you a Happy Halloween!!

By the way since Anna Karin has given the workshop with pouring and splashing, a whole new vibe has entered, and it has freed up more inspiration than we would ever have imagined...

The gorgeous abstracts above and below are created by Cathie. You can recognise the talent - but for the rest it is very different from what she usually creates!!

Thecla also keeps going on with her experiments! She is beginning to develop a style and there is much personal experience symbolized. This one could be about travel between countries according to some and others see a wall between continents - or animals...

For Judith this of course is 'business as usual' and she continues her search and discovery of colours, tones and shapes.Above a WIP, and below the amazing result of last week's experiment!

And more Judith - Up here another WIP and below a very interesting finished experiment - which, I suddenly see, has the same thinking as that of Thecla.

Thecla's abstract, started last week and full of choices! You should see this one in it's original large size because of some great details, but even small it is interesting

We loved to see Christiane again, after a long time!! Much has happened in the meantime but she hasn't changed one bit. She painted an old building in Scotland that had inspired her enormously at the time. This already looks so good, I am happy to see her back all inspired, positive and full of ideas!

Next to her creepy Halloween painting, Sylvie has also finished her 'splash' with a bit more blue - and I find it stunning. Well done!

 

Randi painted two versions of the Knæk Cancer flower that you buy in Denmark to support Cancer research. There's engagement here of course - and she did a tender and wonderful job. 

This painting is created by Geneviève. She has used the very wet technique that gets you the good clear outlines for the leaves.

Anna Karin has finished the spring flower painting that she started before the abstract project. It looks so god and light - and so early spring! There is still ice.

After her scarecrow, Chloë still found the time to paint some flowers. I hope she will come back soon, she was very nice and a good painter, look at these colours and lines...

An amazing playful, loose bunch of poppies, painted by Anna! Such a happy picture - spontaneously painted. Great stuff, love it!

The last two works are by Sandra, the freestylin' painter who shows her world from various angles.
Above a shell with all kinds of meandering shapes and colours. And below a strong and telling portrait of Masha Amini, the 22 year old Iranian woman who died by the hands of the moral police for  improperly wearing her hijab.