Heather Dormer showed members examples of her pastel landscape paintings.
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She likes to paint river scenes, including the Nidd.
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Heather showed a wide variety of landscape paintings.
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Heather showed us her preferred materials and explained her working methods.
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She paints on Art Spectrum paper using Unison soft chalk pastels. Both are quite expensive. She uses cheap sugar paper to test layouts and colours.
She showed us a range of Art Spectrum pastel paper and a waterfall painting she had started on a dark blue sheet.
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Heather also showed examples of mark making.
Diagonal lines
Cross hatching
Side stroke
Line strokes
Mixing
Blending
Scumbling
Pointillism
Members’ results – some of the quick paintings
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For more paintings and details of this local landscape artist see website
> www.heather-dormer-artist.co.uk