DGA Winter Programme January – April 2022
TUESDAY MORNING MEETINGS at Beare Green Village Hall are 10.00 - 1.00pm
MONDAY ZOOMS ARE 2.00 - 4.00pm ALL DAY Sessions are 10- 4pm
If you feel unwell in anyway please do not attend
We would like to remind members that these weekly sessions are not classes, but have been organised to entertain, inspire and encourage you. They are a mix of ‘tasters’ and demos, with a variety of topics and ideas in different media and approaches, to enrich our artistic experience.
11thJan. 10-1.00pm |
Still life in detail with Pauline Allbeury |
See attached notes |
18th Jan. 10-1.00pm |
Self Portraits |
Bring a mirror or photos your preferred medium |
25th Jan. 10-4.00pm |
ALL DAY WORKSHOP with Mark Warner Bold Landscapes in Acrylic |
See attached notes |
1st Feb. 10-1.00pm |
Continuing with improving our landscape techniques |
Bring in your painting from the previous week or start afresh. |
8th Feb. 10/1.00pm |
Still life |
Bring your preferred medium |
15th Feb. 10-4.00pm |
ALL DAY WORKSHOP with Amanda Webster Abstract and Realism in water colour |
How to combine abstract to realism? See attached notes |
22nd Feb. 10-1.00pm |
Still life. |
Bring your preferred medium |
MONDAY 28th Feb. 2-4.00pm |
ZOOM ‘TAKE 6’ Lecture with Ronnie Ireland 6 Artists who use landscape for inspiration
Ronnie Ireland’s personal Zoom |
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8842589684 1?pwd=d2ZhTnhTdlhpRHJOa0g5VXB qWVh4Zz09 Meeting ID: 884 2589 6841 Passcode: 076201 |
1st Mar. 10-1.00pm |
Develop a piece of work based on the zoom lecture with Ronnie Ireland |
Bring your preferred medium |
8th Mar. 10-1.00pm |
Deanna Sergent Can’t see the Woods for the Trees |
See attached notes |
MONDAY 14th Mar. 2-4.00 pm |
ZOOM ‘TAKE 6’ Lecture with Ronnie Ireland 6 Artists who use music for inspiration
Ronnie Ireland’s personal Zoom |
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8842589684 1?pwd=d2ZhTnhTdlhpRHJOa0g5VXB qWVh4Zz09 Meeting ID: 884 2589 6841 Passcode: 076201 |
15TH Mar. 10-1.00 |
Develop a piece of work based on the zoom talk with Ronnie Ireland |
Bring your preferred medium |
22nd Mar. 10-1.00 |
Abstraction; trying to understand it and ourselves in our work, Annette Hall |
Bring photos, object or a piece of work to develop and preferred medium |
29th Mar. 10-1.00pm |
FIGURE DRAWING with Alison Carlier |
Bring lots of paper and drawing equipment/pens /pencil’s etc. |
5th April 10-1.00pm |
Preparing for Plein Air Painting- information and advice from Denise Doran |
Bring your equipment painting around Beare Green. |
12th April 10-4.00pm |
ALL DAY WORKSHOP PORTRAITS with Keith Morton |
We will be working from photographs. Keith will provide some or you can bring your own. |
FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES.
‘Detailed Still Life’ with Pauline Allbeury; composition and techniques. Followed by a painting session. Oils or Acrylics for preference.
Materials list Bring a fine grain canvas or smooth gessoed board.
Watercolour or nylon brushes, small size round, medium round and medium flat, not stiff oil brushes. ‘The Works’ Boldmere brushes are fine to use and very cheap.
If you have time to paint a thin background wash in a mid tone that would be useful.
A flow medium such as Liquin or Alkyd and your paints.
1-5 objects to create a still life composition. Fruit, vegetables, pots, anything. I will bring some spare items as well. A cloth or paper to stand them on.
ALL DAY WORKSHOP with Mark Warner
materials list: acrylic paint
hookers green (or dark green), brighter grass/leaf green, lemon yellow, naples yellow, orange, cerulean blue (important), prussian blue, ultramarine, magenta, cad red, burnt umber, white palette, cloth, water pot, soft brushes: flat approx. size 18, a rigger brush. Other soft brushes are fine no stiff brushes, canvas no smaller than A2
ALL DAY WORKSHOP with Amanda Webster
Abstract and Realism in watercolour
MATERIAL LIST: watercolour paints, gouache paints, coffee granules (the freeze dried stuff), salt, washing up liquid, cling film.scraper and palette knife, small sponges, photo references
Deanna Sergent ‘Can’t see the Woods for the Trees’
MATERIALS LIST: watercolour paints, white gouache, watercolour paper
masking tape, various brushes, ¼”to 1” flat one stroke brushes, riggers from 0 to 6, squirrel mop 6 to 10, toothbrush and plastic card, tree and landscape ref.
RONNIE IRELAND ZOOM LECTURES
The “Take 6” series of talks takes a theme and then examines how artists from different times and places haveworked with that theme. ‘Take 6 LAND’ includes Claude, Constable, Hokusai, Eardley and Goldsworthy, ‘Take 6MUSIC ‘includes Kandiinsky, Picasso, Pollock, Memling, Mondrian and many more. The differences and parallelsare fascinating.
ALL DAY WORKSHOP with Keith Morton
Keith will be bringing Burnt Umber to use to colour the paper members bring.
This list is for opaque media only. Anyone using pastels or water colour will be more expert than
Keith in this media. This is the list of materials when painting with an opaque medium.
if you’d prefer to stick to your own tried and trusted paints and brushes, that won’t be a problem.
Paints: Three ‘warm’ colours and three ‘cool’: Titanium White, Cadmium Red, Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Yellow, Lemon Yellow, Ultramarine Blue, Prussian Blue.
Brushes: Keith does most painting with three brushes, (sizes are approximate, not particular):15 mm flat, 9 mm flat, 3 mm round.
Support: Keith favoured support is Windsor & Newton acrylic paper from a 20” x 16” (508 mm x
406 mm) pad which is slightly heavier weight than Daler Rowney and so doesn’t need stretching
(thinner paper will need stretching). Canvas board is fine too, if members already have some.
-The Hall will be open from 9.45am, and members are required to wear masks when entering, and when moving around the hall. You can remove your mask when sitting at your table.
-The session will end at 1pm.
-Hand sanitizer will be available on arrival.
-Members (who are able) will have to get their own table and chair from the store, and be responsible for returning both at the end of the session. You are also responsible for clearing up after yourself and cleaning the floor are around where you were working.
-The kitchen will be open for refreshments but you are required to bring your own cup.
-You will need to bring your own reference material to the sessions unless otherwise stated.
-We would like to maintain the “no Covid conversations” rule on Tuesday mornings, as we did during our Zoom sessions over the last eighteen months.