ODIHAM ART GROUP
Demonstration Reviews
Jane Perkins
Saturday 3rd February
Chris Sharp
Saturday 5 October 2024
Chris delighted members with a professional demonstration of an acrylic beachscape, looking across to Burgh Island.
True to her style, the finished painting was a balance of loose strokes, a restricted palette and thickly applied paint that reflected and celebrated the atmosphere.
Working almost exclusively with a palette knife, she ensured that the composition remain fluid and was not encumbered by excessive detail. Not to overwhelm the composition, Chris created quieter passages in both the sky and sea and like many artist's that favour a more abstract approach, allowed the painting to benefit from a few happy accidents. Read more about Chris
Chris Used:
Titanium White - Seawhite
Prussian Blue, Raw Sienna, Naples Yellow, Permanent Rose
Palette knife
DIY Studio palette - tin tray, puppy pad and greaseproof paper
Acrylic satin medium to set the paint
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Brian Smith
Saturday 7 September 2024
Brian Smith gave a stimulating and 'fast-paced' watercolour demonstration to launch our new programme for 2024/25.
A lifetime professional painter, he held all members interest from the start, with a bold declaration that he would paint five paintings in two hours! He explained that he wasn’t aiming to produce finished paintings but use the opportunity to share many aspects and watercolour techniques.
In the event, he produced one full painting in the first half of the demonstration and a further four, clever painting exercises to encourage everyone to paint with confidence and undertake experimentation to develop their skills.
The demonstration was full of painting tips delivered by Brian with confidence, humour and a lifetime’s knowledge. He held everyone's attention and stimulated audience inter-action as the two hours passed by quickly.
A great start to our new demonstration programme.
Read more about Brian, see website
Wendy Jelbert
Saturday 6 July 2024
Wendy Jelbert, a well-established professional artist, provided a demonstration entitled “Tantalising Textures”.
Wendy started by illustrating a range of materials that could be used with watercolour or watered-down acrylic paints, demonstrating the affects on her old paintings. Adding grounds with a palette knife and PVA glues to stick sand, leaves, netting, paper shapes and tissue paper.
Wendy was keen to motivate her audience to try every combination possible through experimentation and practice, including masking fluid, pastel pencils, wax resists, salt, cling film and tissue to impact texture and design.
Following her enthusiastic talk she produced a seascape painting to illustrate her methods and favored painting techniques. Above all else, Wendy wanted artists to share in her passion for experimentation and gain confidence with a no-holds barred attitude.
Fatima Pantoja Hernandez
Saturday 2 March 2024
Fatima gave a light-hearted but very knowledgeable oil based portrait demonstration with sitter Peter McLeod, an OAG member, to over 50 members.
Using just blue, red, yellow and white oil paints together with different dilutants and a number of brushes, she produced a perfect image of the sitter in just 2 hours.
Delighting and interesting all members with her tips and technical skills as she went through the stages from the outline “drawing” in red paint, to adding facial features, neck and upper body (important for all portraits). Shadows and later facial details and blocks of colour where added as necessary.
The finishing touches covered the importance of setting the portrait into a background colour – including the importance of standing back regularly and assessing the painting and the sitter – to maximise the key facial features.
Jane Perkins
Saturday 3rd February
Jayne Perkins, is a professional artist and well-established member of OAG.
Using a pastel, oil sketch of the Cornish coast as reference Jayne illustrated how she liked to feature light and “drama” in her paintings.
The main materials were a range of Sennelier pastel sticks, charcoal and pastel pencils. Working on a 3 mm hardboard base coated with emulsion, Gesso primer, dark acrylics and a pastel ground.
Within 2hrs the finished painting illustrated a dramatic sky, realistic looking cliffs and rocks, a sea inlet, beach and illuminating reflections.
Through logical stages she:
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Blocked out the main background colour outlining the cliff face and rocks, forming the sea and water inlet areas alongside the beach and rocks
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Blending the blocked out areas by lightly (“tickling”) with her fingers to avoid a heavy finish, she added more colour to the sky, sea, and shadows on the cliff and rocks
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Finishing details were added – with pale grey, charcoal pencil lines to denote crevices in the cliffs, yellow and warm whites on the beach, shade at the base of the cliff and rocks and creating stronger reflections through light blending of the cliffs and rocks into the sea and inlet waters
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Finally Jane finished off with “dramatic” touches of colour in the sky, light on the water, cliff tops and darker shadow areas.
Mark Warner
Saturday 20 January 2024
Mark returned to Odiham Art Group, on a very cold January morning, as a tutor delivering an acrylic workshop.
With a comfortable and engaging style that followed a pattern of demonstration and individual tuition, Mark encouraged the group through a landscape painting. Starting from its dramatic skyline, he led the group stage-by-stage through the composition - a tree lined horizon and finally a river that spilled into the foreground.
The group, of both experienced and novice painters, relaxed under Mark's positive encouragement and all completed the assignment, gaining valuable knowledge and confidence.
