The Pateley Bridge Art Club exhibition of members’ paintings, prints, photographs and cards will be on display from Friday 19th to Monday 22nd August. 10am to 5pm at the Broadbelt Hall, Glasshouses HG3 5QY. Near Pateley Bridge.
Tea/coffee and cakes, parking next to the village green, disabled access.
Valerie Wartelle came to the club to tell us about her work in wet felting, illustrated with slides, sketch books, sample felted pieces and finished pictures.
Valerie has sketch books to record landscapes and subjects from which to create felted pictures. She also works from photographic images.
Valerie explained that she buys wool tops in a wide range of colours and does not dye fabrics. The fibres in the wool tops are already aligned (carded). which is necessary for bonding fibres together or into woven fabric.
As Valerie states on her website – “The process uses wool tops, hot water, soapsuds and friction to interlock loose fibres together to create a stable fabric.”
She slowly lays fine layers of wool fibres onto a plain flat woven fabric, together with linen fibres and silk threads.
The process needs warm water and physical agitation of the mass of fibres to encourage individual wool fibres to bond with each other and intertwine with the silk woven fabrics.
The pieces can be squeezed, pressed, rolled on the table or through a mangle.
The resulting matted wool is bonded, stable and colourful.
Valerie explained how she sews linen and silk threads and fibres into her paintings to make organic forms.
Landscape scenes may be created with subtle or bright colours blending into each other.
Valerie has a website with more details of her vision and methods as well as courses she runs.
https://valeriewartelle.co.uk
There is a short film showing her processes. Go to the following page and click on the image.
https://valeriewartelle.co.uk/my-practice
Mick Burton explained and demonstrated continuous line drawing and colouring at the May 2022 meeting in Glasshouses to a full house.
Many artists have used continuous lines in their artworks, Mick showed images of drawings by Picasso and Salvador Dali that used continuous lines.
He demonstrated how lines could be drawn in sections or at key crossing points before joining up loose ends to complete the drawing as a single flowing line.
He provided outlines of familiar images to enable members to construct continuous line drawings.
These are some of the results by members.
Colouring
Mick explained how enclosed areas can be coloured in a systematic way to emphasis the shape and flow of the subject. There is plenty of scope to vary the patterns.
These are some results by members.
Abstract Drawings
Mick showed members some of his abstract paintings. There is immense scope to create patterns and shapes with colours flowing around the lines.
Artworks by Mick Burton
Examples of his work can be viewed at > mickburton.co.uk/
Some of the artworks shown to members
At the exhibition – Janet Holt, Dayna Cowper & Mike Holt
Images of the Pateley Bridge Art Club exhibition of members’ artworks are on display.
Click link to view > Spring Exhibition Images
Tracey made a return visit to demonstrate acrylic painting of a seaside scene. An enlarged image was projected onto the wall
She commenced with a blue/grey mix for the sky, applied with a flat brush. She added white to to the sky mix for the distant clouds, as illustrated.
Tracey painted layered horizontal blue greys with a smaller flat brush to create the sea, then blocked in the middle ground and foreground with a burnt sienna as a bright undertone to enhance the foliage to be applied.
After the sky paint had dried, Tracey applied white with a rough dry brush in swirling patterns.
Tracey then used a natural sponge to apply a dark green over the complementary orange ground.
Tracey added the chimney and windows and applied patches of burnt umber and Paynes grey with the flat of a pallet knife and rooflines and window features with the edge of the pallet knife as illustrated.
Rocks created with burnt umber, Payne’s grey and purple. In foreground, dark burnt sienna and dark green applied with scrapped pallet knife. A stipple brush used to apply yellow and greens and sponge to apply yellow ochre, lemon yellow and white to lighten the green gorse.
Tracey used the pallet knife to paint alternate dark and light for the steps and hand rails
In left foreground, dragged white to form grasses and in right foreground, red and yellow ochre dragged with knife.
Tracey applied a splatter of light colour using a toothbrush.
Painting at the end of the session.
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, swordliner brushes and a Rosemary’s “deerfoot” stippling brush in soft badger hair.
Background washes
Background trees using flat brushes
Undergrowth painted with Deerfoot stiple brush
Painting in progress at the break
Aplication of white acrylic with a pallet knife
Rabbit
Human Figures Added
Painting at end of demonstration
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 subjects including landscapes animals and portraits.
After having six Zoom demonstrations we had our first live demonstration. We had 18 members and guests and observed COVID precautions.
The image projection system helped to enable members to see Cath’s detailed painting and the sound system amplified Cath’s commentary. Thanks go to Gordon for organising it and passing on to three members on how to set it up.
The subject for the demonstration was a golden retreiver. Cath has used the image for many demonstrations to art clubs but each one is unique, uses many colours and shades.
Images of golden retreiver outlined on grey Hermes sandpaper.
Cath uses soft pastels made by Unison and Sennielier and thin, harder pastels by Conte for painting the detail. Pastel paints can be removed with a stiff brush and new colours applied.
Cath applied base colours with the side of the pastel (the paper covering needs to be removed). The light hair colour was Unison portrait brown (2464 – a light yellow). A purple on nose and black under the nose and lower jaw.
Cath demonstrated painting an eye in pastel on Canson Mi Teintes paper, colour Moonstone. This specialist paper has a good tooth suitable for pastel painting.
She used shades of blue, browns, oranges, purples and whites to catch reflected light.
A close up of the eye on the grey Hermes sandpaper.
Detailed colouring around the mouth using many colours and shades of red, blue, purple. Highlights on nose, cool blues under lips
After background coloured in purple, stray hairs applied.
Dark specks applied to muzzle and light hairs under nose.
The portrait at the end of demonstration.
