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Showing posts with label Derbyshire Times. Show all posts

Review of the year

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Nearly there!
I am approaching the end of my Canadian Rockies picture now, and will be making the left foreground a bit paler and yellower, to make the train stand out. 

Just a quick mention for the Barlborough art group's exhibition at Barlborough Methodist Church School Room, on November 26th, 10.00-4.00.  Paintings by local artists, refreshments and tombola.

My time blogging for the Derbyshire Times is coming to an end tomorrow, so I would like to take the opportunity of thanking them for giving me a link from their website for the past year. 
Rabbits in the snow
 And what a year it has been! Here’s some highlights.

Looking back through my archives, this time last year, it was about to get much colder and, when it did, I used the snow as inspiration for three new paintings.

Christmas arrived, with lots of arty goodies for me, including a special flattenable water pot for travel. Back in January, I used pen and ink technique back in January, to produce silhouettes of trees from the lost gardens of Heligan. I featured local amateur artist Zoe Edge’s abstract paintings, and began an abstract triptych myself. I helped my son make a dinner plate sized ladybird from paper mache for his school competition. I was very proud of our efforts when it was done, but once he brought it home, he wasted no time duffing it up until it was unrecognisable.
Easter brought Clowne and Barlborough art groups’ annual exhibition, where my cakes at least proved very popular.
A day trip to Hunstanton gave me the opportunity to photograph and draw the local lighthouse through the gateway of a ruined chapel in front of it. Our new kitten arrived in May, and I immediately put her to good use as a model for my pastel pictures.I reviewed the Humber Bridge farmers’ and craft market, before beginning my Canadian Rockies picture in August.
Humber Bridge Market

I reported on the Robin Hood Festival, and crafts there and in the Welsh coastal town of Tenby, where I went on holiday. I brought back about 6 photos for the group to use in a project on Tenby, and this takes care of my next painting – or two.

Portrait of Kizzie as a kitten
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Potter's Wheel at Robin Hood Festival

St Catherine's Island, Tenby

Art group antics at the exhibition

More Tenby - what's not to like?
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Genuine locals!

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I’ve been busy completing paintings ready for our exhibition. Some of you may remember the montage of scenes from around Clowne I completed last year for the Derbyshire Open Art competition at Buxton. To liven it up a bit, I’ve now started to add figures to it, and these are genuine Clowne locals munching their chips (who look just like other UK residents, oddly enough). I also plan to add some medieval figures to some of the older landmarks in the painting.

One of our members had been ill and Maggie, who had been making cards from her artwork, donated one as a “get well” card for her, and we all signed it and sent it off. She has created some greetings cards featuring her paintings, using decoupage (layers), and also some with an edge made with a decorative cutter, producing a doily-like effect, all which will be on sale at the exhibition. Kevin had lightened up his moody Whitby seascape, but was leaving the sides of the canvas dark. John finally completed his pastel tiger, which has taken at least all this year so far, by adding the whiskers, “I hardly dare do this” he said. Karen was being given a “scumbling” lesson by Sue. Scumbling is painting thin layers of light colour over a dark colour to give a shimmering, broken colour effect - or at least that was the idea.

Last week, I was in Chesterfield for a meeting with two reporters from the Derbyshire Times. You may remember that I won a competition to have my blog featured from the newspaper’s web site. Ellen Beardmore and her colleague Ellie (who I think must have been Ellie Hunter) are trying to meet all their website bloggers - there are five others as well as me. They wanted to know more about me, and also whether there were any places, people or events in Clowne worth featuring. Although we only have 7,000 people here, there’s plenty to do if you scratch the surface, and I was not short of ideas. Ellen told me that, to help attract more readers, each of us bloggers will be featured in the paper on a revolving basis, with our latest blog post.  This is obviously good news for me.
Whilst I was there, I visited “Chocolate by Design”, a small high class shop in the town centre. They sell a range of chocolate novelties that you can’t find anywhere else – here are two of their Easter range, bought for the youngsters in the family. They also had large Easter eggs for adults, and smaller ones for the kids, some had sweets set into them – highly original. Here’s their website link: http://www.designchocolate.co.uk/


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