Richard - Work in progress

With our Ashdown Forest exhibition just confirmed to open the week before Easter, its time to buckle down and finish some pictures. At the moment I'm working on another group of four. Nearly there ...

Sheri - Ashdown

Here are my latest two Ashdown paintings - driven a little more to abstraction with each one.

Michael: Linocut, stage 3

Burnt sienna and red printed over the second layer. I used a paper mask to isolate the areas where I wanted these colours to appear.

Lynn - 2nd Devon painting - early stages

A way to go with this one as well...

I also mentioned on Tuesday about the small, postcard sized ultra quick studies we did in class. It was a usefull exercise, though obviously much easier to keep things simple when so small (as opposed to A1 full size paintings).

Just a few, we did about 20..

Lynn - some of the work I've been doing at Emily's this term.

Our theme this year has been New Work from Old, taking inspiration from classic works to create work of our own. Last term I concentrated on making studies/paintings from The Fighting Temeraire by Turner. All about mood, atmosphere, new versus old themes, seascape, boats and luscious paint. This term I'm building on this with work about Devon seascapes, predominantly Newton Ferrers where we holiday.

The first painting above (3 stages in reverse order for some reason!) is supposed to be about being out on the water on a still, misty morning. Still more work to do.

Even more work needed on painting 2, which I've worked on twice so far. Will post separately.

Sheri - Ashdown 2

And here's the painting I finished last time:

Sheri - Ashdown

I continued work on my latest Ashdown painting last night. There's still a bit more to do, but not to much, I promise. This is acrylic on canvas.

Michael: Chrysanthemums and tulip

Ink and watercolour on paper, A4.

Michael: Linocut, stage 2

A darker layer of blue and grey, and some of the details start to appear.

Marina's Ashdown Forest

Marina's first Asdown Forest painting.. and first work in oil. Still very much a work in progress