Welcome to the Cotswold Art Club
Membership is open to all artists both amateur and professional. The club gives support and encouragement to its members with a number of activities.
PREVIOUS DEMONSTRATIONS
Septembers’s demonstration by Timothy Wilmot was a masterclass in loose watercolour while conveying different boats with specific details. Starting by deciding where the focal point would be and what would be includeded and then sketching in enough details to get the layout and details of the boats. He moved on to damping the paper and getting in the backgound with a soft gradation where the white light would be. Then it was on to getting the different colours into the boats.
Cheryl intended to use pastels to create animal artwork but the velour paper she uses had not arrived. Instead she used a variety of different pens to create two images. A jellyfish and bumble bees.
Using 250gm weighted paper, she sketched the image in the centre and wet the paper up to the edges of her drawing. She squeezed blobs of 2 colours of “Sparkle water solvable ink” onto the wet paper, then dribbled over it letting the colours mix, dabbing the excess puddles. Once dry, she outline her pencil sketch with a “black art liner pen” filling in the image with acrylic pen and shading with a “coloured alcohol pen”.
TEAS
Heather and Audrey are retiring from doing the teas at break time after more than 30 years of sterling service. In recognition they were presented with some beautiful flowers to enjoy at home.
Pictured from the left Audrey Peacock, Evelyn Howson (Chair) and Heather Woodward
We will be moving to a bring-your-own drink for break time at future meetings.
NEXT DEMONSTRATION
Come and join us on October 21st when Mike Skidmore with be demonstating how to paint portraits in oils.
More information about future demos can be found on Club Meeting Page
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RECENT EXHIBITIONS
Bourton on the Water
We had a 3 days exhibition at the Victoria Hall in the heart of Bourton on the Water in August.
Hidcote
Our 5 week exhibition (Saturday 3rd June – Sunday 9th July 2023) at Hidcote Manor this year to celebrate their 75th year with the National Trust, has flown past. It was a great success for us and the Manor.
All art that was exhibited, was inspired by Hidcote, this included the gardens at Hidcote Manor, the Manor itself, the creator Lawrence Johnston, Hidcote village, the history of the gardens, the farms, the surounding cotswold landscape and nature, so it was really interesting to see how different artists interpreted this theme
Visit the Hidcote Manor Exhibition 2023 Page to see some of the work that was included.
Check the Club Exhibition Page to see all planned exhibitions and add them to your diary.