From Chess to Chat - A wide range of subjects in Watercolours

 Jutta's fabulous chessboard, I absolutely love the 'loose' style!

The Aquarelistas are more and more productive - especially now that we also have a session on Thursday! And a post with too many paintings won't get the attention it deserves, that's why I seperately show you the overview of what was done next to the Zentangles in today's other post 😃. Starting with the chess boards and pieces, ending with Maud's Chat - and everything in between

 

The finished board by Michele C. It is astonishing! I am so happy with what she has achieved in such a small period of time!

 Liz's large stone Chess painting is getting sturdier and the composition has fallen into place...

 Anna Karin has added the board underneath. It gives her painting such depth

 

Sylvie D. was away for a couple of weeks. Once back she finished her soap bubble-inspired painting. I think it is seriously awesome

Isabel D. worked on the forground-background exercise and finished with zentangle in the tree.The result is really great!!

 

Carol tweaked her already-gorgeous lonely wind mill on the water front. It is now perfect! We all love it to bits

 

The gorl with the blue scarf by Marie-Claire.Very beautiful, in colour as well as shape! Well done...

Sylvie let herself be inspired by Modigliani for this fabulous nude.

 

Maud a mis le dessin sur son papier, en couleurs Si vous regardez à travers vos cils, vous pourrez distinguer un chat blanc dans une poussette rose et des nombreux jouets: un commande!

As you can understand I am so proud of our group - both by the quality of the painting and the hard work... Especially impressive if you know that we are also working on Christmas Cards... In a next week's post I'll present some of those!

Aquarelle Chess

In last week's sessions (we also own the Thursday afternoon now 😊) the Aquarellistas used Chess pieces and boards as their inspiration... As always, the difference in everyone's styles makes it very interesting to look at the paintings.There are so many ideas, interpretations and perspectives - and everyone gives their best!
I am very proud of our group, and here's the work - for you to enjoy:

Celina's Knight, Tower and Bishop, on an unusual board. (The marble effect is achieved by sprinkling a bit of coarse salt on the wet paint) It is somehow very calming to look at and I am curious about how it will look when finished!

This still and determined set is painted by Anna-Karin and her big pointy brush. She also used salt and the effect (always a surprise) is awesome!

 Glen had to leave earlier so she must have worked hard on her chess board, it is almost finished! She will paint the background a soft blue so that the highlights are the only white and will come out a bit stronger.

This is the subtle start of a beautiful painting by Michele C.The white pieces in the background have blue masking fluid on them and that creates an interesting effect! When they are black it will be a different look -- but no doubt very good.

Liz is going for a huge stone chess game, not placed on a board but on pebbles. Still a lot of painstaking paintwork to do, but knowing Liz she will pull it off!

 Judith carefully constructed her chess pieces using masking fluid for the light parts. She came back on Thursday and finished it. Best she's done up to now! It has great volume, light and shadows on and below the pieces. Perspective improved and salt on the black for a marble effect. Well done!

 

 Helene's Queen - a monumental shiny chess piece. It is obvious that it is not finished - and I look forward to seeing the reflection of the black and white on it!

Jutta first finished one of her soap bubble paintings, but I want to show you the drawing, because of the exciting perspective. The colours will come next week!

News from the 'bubble' project:

  Both Jutta's soap bubbles now finished!

 Celina's soap bubbles - and where they come from - now completed. The girl is not the focal point - but she is so cute - and there's a story there...

 Judith's soap bubbles finished and I think we can say she nailed them!

No painted soap bubbles but marbles - and how! First exercise, well-done by Katherine

And here some inspiring 'other creations'.

 Isa works on the background (bluish)- foreground (reddish)-and-details-tree.

Inspired by the 'lonely houses', Carol started this lonely mill. It is not yet finished, but it already has so much character. As does the painting of the girl with her brothers - version2!

 

Sylvie M could make it last Thursday, we were happy to see her again! Her arm is still hurting but that doesn't keep her from making wonderful watercolours. How about this girl with the pearl earring!

  Maud a terminé son Bouddha. C'est une commission pour une salle d'attente et je suis sûr qu'il va jouer un rôle important pour réconforter et calmer les personnes qui attendent ...

Reminder: a Zen Watercolour session will also be organised every Thursday from 2 - 4.30, same subject, same structure...

Theme - Turquoise in Watercolours

a turquoise turquoise by Isabelle.

Another great session on Tuesday afternoon, with the Aquarellistas of the Hangar! We had the colour 'turquoise' as our guideline &  inspiration. And as always the results were very different, interesting and inspiring!  The pictures are a bit bluer than the actual paintings, it turned out that turquoise is a hard colour to photograph!

 Isabelle also painted this turquoise stone mask - a bit on the green side, but  o so mysterious!

  

 Sandra has started with a beautiful wreath-like shape, with fantasy leaves (of which some are turquoise). She works on handmade paper, on the wrong side, without top layer. Which absorbs the pigment immediately - and leaves the water on top. Great effects - curious how this will look when finished!

 Glen has finished the basics of this window with turquoise shutters. I love the south french light & shadow! Needs a bit more contrast in the window itself for an even more exciting effect, that I'm sure she will do perfectly!

 Sylvie combined her favourite colour with her favourite way of working, the mosaic, into this composition. Is she going to leave the middle white? I'm curious!

Amazing mask of turquoise stones, by Liz. Super well done! 

Anna-Karin is back and she experimented with fantasy-landscapes, using turquoise. We all agreed that all three are awesome - and different -  but o so recognizable as Anna-Karin's

Anna Karin used round shapes in the last of her three watercolours. Works so good as a foreground

Liz' round shapes of the odd one out also work excellent on their own...

And the last one in this weeks'  Liz - collection: a very good evening painting! with violet, that is so much warmer than paynes grey for instance...

More evening paintings: the starters exercise is now finished 

 Judith finished hers - we agreed it is super and looks like a cruiseship

 And so did Jutta - and hers looks like Cinqueterre!

Our three starters are almost done with their must-have exercises!  Next week I will present the 3 versions of the last one, a pair of eyes behind an elegant black mask...and here's a preview, created  by Ilse

The odd one out

 The red apple when all the others are green, by Liz

 

Last week's inspiration was picked up in a great way by all participants! We saw a diversity of fruity interpretations of 'the odd one out'...

Glen put an apple between the oranges

And Marie-Clair put an orange (slice) between the apple slices. And coloured them blue

Between these two beautifully painted tennis balls there will be an apple that looks like them but definitely is different! Very clever. By Carol

In the mean time, fantastic work by the starters:

Out of her washing exercise Jutta created this abstract. It reminds me of a happy butterfly on its way to the sun. Well done, in composition as well as colour balance!

Judith also created an exciting abstract composition - the volume really works well and it makes you look more than once every time. Love it!

  Judith (above) and Jutta (below) have both started with the 'Layer' exercise, where a cityscape at night, seen from the sea, appears after 4 washes. Funny how different they can be!

Ilse finished hers but has second thoughts about the sea so an adapted version may be shown next time!

 

 Next to her 'Odd one out', Liz finished her rainy day painting. It worked out super well, that wetness!

Sylvie's fantasy fish. On the one hand it is mosaic, on the other hand, looking so lively and quicksilvery! Excellent!

And to give something to drool over, here's Cathie's onion-painting in its' finishing stages...