Muskham Art Group - Demonstrations

Every year we try to have a  good variety of demonstrations and workshops by visiting professional artists. We have had Liz Haywood, Vic Bearcroft, Rob Wareing, Gwen Scott, Rachel Connolly, Jan Osbond, Dave Woolass, and Michael Webster (to name but a few) come and give us valuable demonstrations. Every demo teaches us something new and they serve to motivate and inspire.

On March 24th we have a workshop with Jan Osbond where we will be learning all about techniques for adding texture to our paintings.

On 2nd June we will make what has now become our annual pilgrimage to Michael Webster's house in Spilsby for a day's painting and tuition. We always have a superb day out. The food, company and painting are brilliant (the weather usually is too!). The group is taken by Mike to see the local sights and points of artisitic interest.

More demonstrations, workshops and perhaps some days out will be added to our calendar later. Watch this space...

Below are photos showing Mike Webster giving a demonstration. He was showing us how to paint a more interesting picture by amalgamating photographs.

In Liz Woodcock's last demo she showed us how she used gravity to get the required effects:

In Vic Bearcroft's demo he showed us how he created wonderful. realistic pictures of animals. His favourite subject is wolves and in his demo he produced a picture of a howling wolf using pastels on velour:

Jan Osbond gave a very comprehensive demonstration on how to create texture in painting. She gave us some amazing ideas which we are dying to put into practice. The photo below shows Jan with a painting that uses 101 different ways of creating texture!