Thursday Group

Thursday mornings is the highlight of my week. This is when I get together with other artists and paint different themes using various techniques.

Today we focused on doing a face as this is something that a lot of artists struggle with. We started with the shading of the face and then moved to the eyes, nose and mouth, eventually finishing with a complete painting.

Once again we used the same drawing but each painting is so different from the rest. Amazing how we all have our own style of painting and seeing colours.

Alet's painting

Hantie's painting

Nick's painting

Ronel's painting

My painting

Thursday Group

Last Thursday of the month - again! I can't believe it's only 3 months to Christmas. As it is the last Thursday of the month each artist worked on their own painting.

Marlene - she finished her painting from last week. Very pretty!

Stella - she has been working on this painting for quite some time and finished it today. A real storybook painting.

Ronel - being Ronel she did 2 paintings this morning! Lovely paintings.

My painting - I felt like doing some shoes. I haven't done shoes in a while and started getting whitdrawal symptoms hehe!

Thursday Group

We had a great time on Thursday doing another palette knife painting. This one was very challenging with all the different colours and detail. In the end everyone made lovely paintings. Well done friends and thanks Charles for doing the class the past few weeks.

Hantie's painting

Jenny's painting

Nick's painting

My painting

Anso's painting

Thursday Group

Yesterday we had another palette knife class. This time we did a simple landscape and created some charming paintings. Another class enjoyed by all.

The underpainting was done in sap green and raw umber washes.

Working from the top to the bottom I did the blue from the sky, the clouds and the little house.

My painting

The field was done in lime greens and bright red and yellow for the flowers.

Alet's painting

Anso's painting

Hantie's painting

Nick's painting

Thursday Group

Last Thursday of the month so time again for everyone to do their own thing. Last weeks lesson was all about using a palette knife. I missed it but got some great inspiration today from the other's paintings. As you can see everyone enjoyed the palette knife class so much that they used the same technique today.

Vivia's painting
She stayed with her "tree" theme and combined it with the palette knife technique with fantastic results. Love the colours!

Hanli's painting
Hanli is a wonderfull artist spesialising in realism and muted colours. Fantastic painting!

Hanti's painting
Hanti carried on with the "house" theme of last week and created a wonderfull painting today.

Marlene's painting
Marlene and Hanti did the same painting today and I think they are just charming.

Nick's painting
Nick also carried on with the houses and made a great painting. I love the red!

Ronel's painting.
This is a typical "Ronel" painting. Bold, colourfull and striking. Lovely.

Lion Painting

Last week the theme for our weekly painting was a lion. Sounds easy enough but is in fact quite tricky to get right. The challenge in this one was to play with light and shadows. As always there were some interesting paintings.

Hanli's painting

Stella's painting

Vivia's painting

My painting

Thursday Group

Today we did another painting with a coloured background. Today black. It is very satisfying painting on a black canvas as it picks up shadows and colour beautifully. It is quite tricky though to keep track of what to leave black. A great exercize for thinking about colour, shape and shade. As always everyone worked from the same picture but every painting is totally different. Enjoy.

First the darkest flesh colours are applied, working towards the lightest. Colours used are crimson, yello ocre, sap green, cad red and white. It is important to not touch the darkest shadows and leave them black.

The hat is painted in the same manner using raw umber, white and yellow ocre in different hues.

The jacket is painted using raw umber, white and c blue. Care is taken once again to not paint away the shaded areas as this creates great atmosphere and depth. Now colours can be blended to create a more uniform look and the background is added.

My painting

Alet's painting

Anso's painting

Ronel's painting

Vivia's painting

Thursday Group

End of the month again, meaning we all do our own projects at class. With the winter school holidays that started last week not everyone was there today. So here are a few I found interesting. We are going to Cape Town for 10 days, I will post some photos when we are back.

Alet's pretty flowers

Hantie's lovely Cape street scene

Stella's amazing chickens

My shoes

Happy holidays to all!

Thursday Group

This past Thursday was a real challenge for all of us. Painting faces are definately not easy and is something that needs to be practiced a lot. What made this class such fun was that we did a painting of a small boy. Children's faces have a lot of character and one can use more bold colours. Although we all did the same painting, once again they are all quite different, bringing out the artist's personality and paint tecnique. Hope you enjoy them to.

Nick's painting

Vivia's painting

Alet's painting

Anso's painting

My painting

Thursday Group

Sorry to all my Thursday Group ladies and one lucky gentleman. I have been neglegting to update this blog. Well, here goes.

Two weeks ago we did some botanical paintings. This was a class al enjoyed very much. It involved some craft and paint abilities.

First the canvas was primed in a dark blue with 2 white top coats. Once the paint dried, we sanded some areas to make it seem antique. Then stencils and filler was used to create a decorative 3d effect. The flowers were painted and a light green wash was used to create an old feeling. I love these paintings, they have a real old world charm.

Nick's painting

Ronel's painting

Anso's painting

Vivia's painting

My painting

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