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.
DEMONSTRATIONS
Jean began the talk with a history of Chinese art dating back to Neolithic times with the discovery of pottery and early ceramics.
The Chinese invented paper and silk in about 1000AD. Jean showed us an Inkstone which is a shallow black container made of stone and also an Inkstick which looks like an ornate domino and made from pine soot and glue. Shavings from the Inkstick are mixed with water in the Instone creating fluid black ink.
We were given paint brushes of varying sizes to pass around made from the hair of wolves, weasels, horses and sheep. We also were shown three different textures of paper. Jean advised to put a cloth or newspaper under the paper as it is very porous.
On this occasion she used Xuan paper and Marie’s Chinese watercolours. She started by drawing the outline of flowers with black ink holding the pen like throwing a dart and colouring the centre in red and orange.
The next painting was a pink magnolia. When she mixed the red and white to make pink, she made sure the brush was filled with paint and the tip of the paintbrush remained in the red area of the palette creating natural shading on the petals. Jean continued to add the leaves and stalks.
Her final painting was bamboo sticks. She used the thickness of the brush to make several lines interrupted by spaces which she joined by arrow shaped marks and then added the new stems, finishing the painting with the addition of leaves and birds
In February, Jackie Garner came to to introduce us to patterns in nature using a variety of acrylic painting methods. This was a demonstration that was never going to end with a finished painting within the time but to lead us through several techniques and introduce us to Jackie’s approach to her art. Part of this was to find out what personally you really like and then follow that through with your art. For Jackie this included patterns, colour, nature and a little bling.
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Workshops
15-16th March – Nature in Art – Experimental Acrylics with Jackie Garner
5th April – Atmospheric Landscapes in Acrylic—Jackie Garner
NEXT DEMONSTRATION
Join us on 15th Feburary when Pattern in Nature will be the subject of the demonstration by Jackie Garner using Acrylics
More information about this years schedule is on Club Meeting Page
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EXHIBITIONS IN 2025
We are back at Hidcote throughout March in 2025 See the art
