Bruce Mulcahy – Gouache demonstration
Bruce Mulcahy came to Glasshouses from Teeside to demonstrate gouache painting for Pateley Bridge Art Club members and interested local people. Although he paints in oils, acrylics and gouache, he prefers gouache for outdoor paintings as he can reduce the weight of materials he carries, he can work quicker and the painting dries for safe […]
Heather Burton demonstration
Heather Burton travelled from East Yorkshire to demonstrate painting in acrylic paint applied with a palette knife. The demonstration attracted a full room of members and guests. The painting work was projected onto the back wall to enable everyone to see the detail. Heather explained how palette knives are designed to enable artists to hold […]
Tracey Krupianka Acrylic Painting
Following a successful Zoom demonstration of flower painting in April, Tracey was invited to demonstrate landscape painting. Tracey choose to paint a snowy woodland scene in acrylic paint on board. A splendid turnout on a cold winter night Tracey had painted similar scenes before. She used a variety of acrylic brands with mainly flat brushes, […]
Cath Inglis Pastels
Cath Inglis is a pastel artist and tutor from York who is also a professional associate with the SAA, a member of the Society of Women Artists, winning awards at their London exhibitions, and an Associate Member for Unison Colour Pastels and an online tutor for the Pastel Academy. She paints a wide variety of […]
Paul Talbot-Greaves
Paul is an experienced artist from Brighouse who previously ran a demonstration and a workshop for the club in 2016.In September 2021 he ran a demonstration on Zoom for 14 members. The subject was a canal scene based on the following photograph. Images during painting were taken from a computer screen. Paul choose Sanders Waterford […]
Demonstration by Mark Warner
Mark Warner is a professional painter in oils, acrylics and pastels, on canvas, board and pastel paper. He also runs demonstrations and workshops for art groups and tutors on painting holidays.He sketches seascapes and landscapes outdoors, capturing the weather, the sky and the light. He completes the paintings indoors from his sketches, notes and photographs.He […]
Demonstration by Tracey Krupianka
Our first Zoom demonstration was held on Tuesday evening 6th April when 15 Members enjoyed a lively and informative demonstration by local artist, Tracey Krupianka from Wharfedale. An artist for many years, Tracey is self taught and works mainly in acrylics. She teaches and demonstrates to art clubs and societies across the North of England and, […]
Oil painting by Nigel Overton
Nigel Overton demonstrated oil painting for Pateley Bridge Art Club.He explained that cheaper paints usually had far less pigment in them. He recommended that members use the artist quality paints. He uses low odour thinners and fast drying oil. He often prepares his own painting board using MDF. It needs smoothing with sandpaper, cleaning with […]
Bob Goldsborough – Colour in Composition
Bob Goldsborough travelled from Birkenhead to talk about using colour in paintings. He illustrated how a colour can appear to be darker in front of a light background. It can also appear to change its hue (colour), shifting away from similar nearby colours. He explained how the traditional primary colours of Red, Blue & Yellow […]
John Harrison – Line & Wash
John came to demonstrate his approach to line and wash and to show us his demonstration pieces and sketchbooks. He worked from a photograph of cottages, used a unipen with watercolours, painting flat on watercolour paper. He had his own camera projection onto the wall. John Harrison showed us his watercolour demonstration pieces. John allowed […]