DUPONT ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION!
On Aug 15-17th from 10 am to 5 pm the DUPONT ART exhibition opens. The set up on Wednesday showed many exceptional paintings of in all price ranges. There is also an excellent craft table with craft...
08.15.2019
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Acrylic and Collage
Collage was first used as early as 1910 and Picasso did some collages. Collage is a great way to add new dimensions to your paintings. The list of things you can use in collage is almost infinite, but...
08.07.2019
Building an Acrylic Painting with Layered Washes
Guest instructor, Zara, introduced her favourite method of developing an acrylic painting by using many washes to slowly develop the picture. She said that this meditative process left a painti...
07.25.2019
The use of a flat brush
Brushes come in various shapes including round, filbert (a semi round top and great for portraiture), fan, angular, and the flat brush. Each has it’s own uses. Caroline Marsland demonstrated the...
07.15.2019
DEGAS – Pastels with a twist
Degas was one of the forerunners in impressionism. He preferred to work in his studio, and was not impressed with his contemporaries who painted en plain air. Born 1834, he was a little older than the...
07.02.2019
Painting in the style of Monet
Caroline Marsland lead us in a demo of a Monet painting. She pointed out the Impressionists of whom he was most famous, were into seeing colours in their environment. `Monet painted with thick oil pai...
06.12.2019
Monoprinting by Caroline Marsland
Caroline gave us three demonstrations of monoprinting Monoprinting is a spontaneous and quick way of working, and good for getting texture. The first example was using an oil stick. She started by p...
05.30.2019
Making Eye Measurements in Painting
Instructor Caroline Marsland demonstrated how one could take measurements of the objects you are painting. She provided us with a simple picture of how to do it. Just using a brush or pencil, one can ...
05.26.2019
Fish painted in watercolour
Caroline’s subject this week was “fish, painted in watercolour”. The vibrancy of the medium was well suited to this subject as can be seen in her beautiful rendition of a tropical fish. First Ca...
05.18.2019
The Zorn Pallet
On April 24th instructor Lucy Parker gave a brief talk to the Wednesday Dupont class on the zorn pallet used by many artists She described the colours used as yellow ocher, cad red medium. black and...
05.01.2019