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Art in Poundbury Club, part of the Art in Poundbury Group aims to foster, promote and increase the knowledge, practice and appreciation of art in our local area - Dorchester, Poundbury and surrounding areas .
We hold regular workshops in life/portrait drawings as well as general workshop sessions in various media. We also run a summer plein air programme. If you are interested in joining in, please contact one of us.
Carolyn Fields mrsbiologyfields@gmail.com
Pam Philip pamphilip@btinternet.com
Thursday 4th September - at the Brownsword Hall...
An Art afternoon with Teresa Lawton
Abstracting and Simplifying Still Life Painting.
Doors open 1.30
Teresa says..."I will start by helping you prepare your still life composition.
We will keep it simple as time is short.
I will set up some still life compositions for you. Jugs, mugs, interesting shaped objects. I will be thinking of good shapes and colour combinations.
This is a studio exercise to help you simplify shapes and forms, this could be useful to you in any given composition, be it interior, landscapes or portraiture. It can help you be selective in creating your subjects without over complicating or cluttering, giving items space in order to create decisions of line, colour or tone.
I suggest you look at artists like Mary Fedden, Picasso, Matisse, Cezanne Ben Nicholson, Rose Hilton for inspiration.
You can use any medium that suits you best.
I hope you will come up with your own individual ideas, break all the rules and just think of shapes, simplify and balance within your composition, keep it simple and don’t over complicate it.
I will aim to get round to you all individually throughout the afternoon. £
Rules and regulations - BROWNSWORD HALL, POUNDBURY
1. Doors open at 1.30 so that sessions can start promptly at 1.45pm and end at 4pm. This includes setting-up and clearing-away time. (some sessions will have to end by 3.45 in order to clear up)
2. No smoking allowed
3. Following art sessions, members will be responsible for leaving their station as they found it.
4. Members will be responsible for ensuring their own safety and the safety of their art equipment and personal belongings.
5. If using oil paints, please only use non-odour solvents.
6. Please use floor/table coverings if using oils, pastels, acrylics.
7. There is a Fire Escape between the kitchen and Ladies Toilet.
8. The main downstairs door will be bolted once all members have arrived, but easily unbolted in case of emergency.
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