Painting Raging Seas in St Francis Bay – November 2015

Painting with Fabulous artist friends in St Francis Bay. It was great having two days together to splash and pour and out of the chaos came some wonderful paintings. Read more here:

Ann Art St Francis Nov 2015 (80) — Ann seems to always create magical and mystical paintings

Christine, Cookie, Heather and Gesina

Art St Francis Nov 2015 (1) — Ann, Helga, Joy, Cookie, Christine, Berto and Lynn – (Heather not in the image)

Gesina with coffee – essential breaks required.

Huts & Houses Step by Step

A painting that was just a nothing can turn into a something

It is a fun challenge to take a painting that was just a lot of nothing and then add more to it and see what happens ….

Step Two – using corrugated cardboard print some hut walls

Just keep adding some fun stuff

Add colour and be a little bit reckless

Add some negative shapes here and there

so then I had to fix it a bit but it got worse … what’s a person to do except carry on making more reckless brush strokes

Some lifting to restore what I had destroyed and then a cup of tea

find some people in the shadows and pull out some highlights and negative shapes

a bit of cropping to cut out some of the tree disaster and ink pencil work, some lines and loose goose brush work

All in all a fun little painting that could have been discarded at any point but it was fun to push it as far as it could go. Looking back I see there are some moments that were good before I over played them – but if we played safe we would never learn.

Go ahead and have a fun time – take an old painting and make some huts and shacks – they don’t need to be perfect works of architecture.

Watercolour Workshop Port Elizabeth 6 June, 2012

Lovely Landscapes

East Cape Watercolour Association will be hosting a workshop in Port Elizabeth ARTEC – EPSAC on the 6th June 2012.

Visit their site at EpsacCommuntyArtCentre@southafricanartists.com

This is going to be a full day of wonderful watercolour adventures designed to allow for the unique flow of creativity from novices to the more experienced artists.

The cost per person is R130 and participants to please bring their own lunch and snacks to keep their energy levels up. Chocolate is always a good idea. Hmmmm! and drinking water.

The workshop will begin at 9:30’ish and will be a mix of demonstration time – learning some fun techniques – and work time. Please bring your art supplies and view the recommendations for colours to please bring along as this will help us with the first exercise.

What are we doing together?

Lovely Landscapes

If you have a scene that is calling you to paint, please bring a picture and we will work on it in the later part of the day.

Here are some photos from our farm beyond Rustenberg which our family owned some years back. This beautiful place is my Nature Home.

The Joy of Art Sings in my Soul

Top of the kranzes looking down at the river

Looking from the one end of the valley to the other

View across from the road just as it begins to descend into the valley and kranzes below

What to bring?

Watercolour art materials – Look at the suggested basic materials here http://joytruscott.co.za/category/supplies/
Several sheets of watercolour paper from A4 to A3 size
An old towel
Sprayer for water
Paper Towel
An apron or old shirt – we are going to be messy
Plastic wrap

w Colour Selection — Exploring some colour combinations

If you would like to play with these colours and learn an effect that can be created with them then please bring the basics which are:

Aureolin yellow

Raw Sienna or Gamboge

Purple Lake

Ultramarine Violet

Sap Green

This is the effect one can achieve with these colours