Fungi Creations
We’re having a short break at the Online Art Group during May before Sara Dudman returns to regular sessions in June. At our last workshop we spent a brilliant evening making mixed media paintings focussing on expressing the form, texture, colours and domed shapes of some lovely little mushrooms. We used ink and watercolours, bringing…
Curvaceous Walnuts & Doughy Hot Cross Buns
Our journey exploring mark making through seasonal produce has continued over at the Online Art Group through the beautiful shapes and tones of Walnuts and juicy Hot Cross Buns! Following on from our experiments with intricate Kale leaves, artist Sara Dudman guided us through frottage, collage and layering techniques to focus on expressing the shapes…
Curly Kale Frottage and the Humble Potato
We’ve been having a delicious time in the Online Art Group with artist Sara Dudman. Ahead of each session Sara has been sharing seasonal produce as a starting point for exploring exciting new mark making techniques. So far we’ve been experimenting with hand cut frottage, ways of seeing and drawing, using different types of ink…
‘You Are What You Paint…..or…..You Paint What You Are’’
Welcome back to Sara Dudman who will be leading the SAW Online Art Group as we move through 2023! And of course a big thank you to Simon Ripley for the last 6 months of inspiring printmaking workshops. “The subject / theme for this new series of 12 experimental online painting and drawing sessions will…
Final Printmaking Sessions with Simon Ripley
We will miss Simon’s wonderful printmaking sessions for the Online Art Group, final workshops on 18th Jan and 1st February. Thank you Simon for sharing a wealth of inspiration, skills, tips and techniques with us! ”My penultimate workshop will explore a fun but basic approach to lithography – the most widespread commercial print process there…
Collagraph and Intaglio
Over the past month we’ve been deep-diving into lots of different printmaking techniques with artist Simon Ripley. Simon’s been great at introducing techniques that might normally require specialist equipment or access to a print studio, but in a really fun and accessible way so that we can all experiment with and have a go at…
September Printmaking
The Online Art Group’s new sessions with printmaker Simon Ripley kicked off in September – beginning with a lovely, informal, introductory session where Simon talked us through the many variations of printmaking. He showed examples of the effects that can be produced, as well as giving hints and tips for what we may be able…
Online Art Group – Welcome Simon Ripley
Simon Ripley will be joining us from 7th September (new date) to begin our new series of online workshops with a focus on Printmaking. Here’s a short video from Simon to give you an idea of what you can expect from these exciting upcoming sessions. Simon is an Artist, Printmaker and founder of Double Elephant…
Not being ‘precious’
Through May and June our sessions with Sara we have been investigating different ways of drawing and seeing; using a viewfinder to help with composition and translating small subject matter into larger and braver pieces of work. Our inspiration has been the beautiful Spring and Summer flora that is so abundant right now, exploring this…
Composition, Shape and Colour
“These sessions breathe life into my creativity” Moving on from a focus on colour, we’ve been exploring composition, balance and shapes (both positive and negative) to create paintings of things we can see. Developing some of the techniques for mixing and understanding colours, we’ve been learning and becoming braver and bolder with laying down marks…
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