Showing posts with label Agnes McLaughlin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Agnes McLaughlin. Show all posts

Monday, 9 July 2018

Bottle & Brush Challenge continued + misc!


This is what I saw when I downloaded the 'bottle & brush' results for the blog... seeing all those fantastic real glass bottles really made me proud and happy! 

And here below they are on a larger scale - look and enjoy, they are awesome (with more to come) - and also have a look at Cathie's posts on the facebook page FRENCH RIVIERA ART

 
 Agnès!

Bev!

Brenda! (discussion on Facebook still hot: should she go on or stop now...)

 Brigitte!

Hélène!

 Vanessa! (not yet finished - so will be even better)

Isabelle! (not yet finished - so will be even better)

 Liz!
 Sylvie M!

Misc...

And then there were some ongoing projects like
 Bev's view on Piazza Ducale (going to be awesome!)

Abstract flowers by Sheila...

Summer with the kids - another brilliant painting by Carol-who-will-now-start-with-the-bottle&brush challenge!!

Monday, 18 June 2018

Fabrics - Flowers and other Fun subjects in Watercolours

 Amazing result of Isabelle, also proof that 'persevere' is the thing to do when you paint silky fabrics

During our last aquarelle session, many were still working on unfinished watercolours or inspired by other things! But 4 Aquarellistas worked on the subject du jour: 'Fabrics' and as you can see interpreted it all in a different way!

'Weaving' was the swing that Sylvie D gave the subject. She will finish this later, adding the part on the right that is the actual fabric - but already an awesome image!

 Sheila started a basis for brocade, but it ran away with her and she ended up with this gorgeous fantasy-lace! That's one of those things with watercolours...


 Patience really bended the subject  towards surrealism. These folds look beautifully melancholic and if you look carefully (click to enlarge picture) you will find a foot, and eye and more...

The group was very big and we worked with a still life and different pictures as examples and inspiration...

 Michele F brought daughter II, the beautiful Violet. Clearly the talent for colours and composition runs in the family! Above. Michele's little bouquet (almost finished)
Violet worked with watercolours for the first time (!) and here's the big lily she created. So fragile - and the white works splendidly. I love it.

 And talking about talent, Brigitte is really on a roll. She finished her beach view (below) and to fill the time 'doodled' these tulips in a very relaxed way. We were all in awe, looking great!

 Brenda's almost fnished tuscan landscape. It is very sunny - and just needs a little bit more of that typical background - to be added next time

 Sylvie D.also created a Tuscan landscape - I so love the little village on the hill top and those typical cypress trees!

Michele C. works with us in between travels all over the world! She read about our 'perspective workshop' and that inspired her to paint this little street on the road to Compostella (9 points out of 10 for the perspective Michele)
 
Awesome, what more can I say... Brigitte's sunny sandy beach  now finished

Here's the very start of Carol's new painting. I use it as an example to show that in some art the subject is all-important, more than the execution. Even though this is not even half finished, it already touches you with it's story doesn't it!? I already look forward to seeing the next stages...


 Not only is this amazingly well done by Agnès (look at that water, look at those drops from the fountain in the background!) but to me it is also a funny picture: to me the guy in the shell is on the phone - do you see it too? 


Liz started with a new project that will later be a group effort: the brush in the water jar. Cleverly done by her, and who knows, after it is finished we may have to ask: 'is it a painting or a photo?'  
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More later - actually much more work was created as we were with a big group, but many had left before I could take the pictures... So sorry - and of course Next Time!

Monday, 4 June 2018

Bella Italia - by the Aquarellistas

Scorcese by Brenda. Love the glasses and the expression!

La Dolce Vita by Agnès! Fantastic those quick drawings - proof that practice pays off

A young and very subtle Sophia Lorèn by Elia B.

To be tweaked but the resemblance is already spot on! Lino Ventura by Sylvie D.

Another subtle portrait, very watercolour: Claudia Cardinale - by Hélène

Venice, a memory of Isabelle. Lovely in atmosphere - to be finished next time!

Portofino, revisited by Liz - now still light & lots of masking, I'm so looking forward to seeing it finished!

Still life with shells by Bev, she is a magician with 3D effect - it looks so real

Broken glass heart - by Patience. So poetic and subtle and sad. There's a story behind it - which makes it a true work of art...

Monday, 23 April 2018

9 Aquarellistas - 11 different subjects

A very Zen session last week, we used it to finish ongoing projects, try out ideas and experiment with colours and lines. And welcomed two brandnew group members:


Cyndie and Hélène both painted for the first time with transparent, watery aquarelle. 
They both really enjoyd the 'Spheres' exercise, clearly visible in the results above and below!!


 Hélène started the washing exercise, and washed it thoroughly! 
Next week she will give this vague shape its volume...

Cyndie went on painting when at home, and created this brilliant patchwork! 
With a bit of volume, and loads of patterns. Well done!

Healthy green smoothie in a bottle. This is going to be another gorgeous still life by Carol, can't wait to see it finished!


Cathie worked on this amazing begonias in an old rusty blue pot.

Liz finished the complementary coloured sunflower, now forming a set with the oranges. I  love it very much!

Right now mostly masking fluid and tape - but already super cool, this painting-to-be of Menton. Also by Liz

From here: the portraits section! Starting with a very good monochrome portrait of Johnny as Jack Sparrow. By Elia. Look at those lips...

A super experiment by Agnès, she started this in her carnet de voyage: Bic Pen, combined with watercolours... Looks like a good combi to me! This was done on paper with a layer of gesso, next week more, on 'untreated' torchon... LOve his name! So very fashionable 😝

 Another wild experiment, by Isabelle. She drew a couple of portraits of her gran and on this version, which came out with a bit of a scary look, had a ball with patterns and stripes

 Elia finished her portrait of Sylvie Testud. It is a very interesting face - just like the woman herself!

  Fab portrait of Sylvie Vartan, by Carol, now finished. Still Love the Look

 Two more portraits of Sylvie Vartan, both by Sheila... I'm sure both she and Carol were looking for character and expression when they chose these!