Adventure 2012: Private View

On Saturday afternoon we had the opening and private view of the Adventure art exhibition.

The exhibition was officially opened by Steve Alliston representing the Jubilee Initiative, the collection of charities to which commission on sales will be donated. There was a great turn out for the private view, with many friends and family attending.

  Adventure is open until 22nd December. We hope many of you will have a chance to stop by and have a look. We will post more pictures of the work in coming days.

Finally, from all of the other artists: a big “Thank You” to Sheri. Without her vision, enthusiasm and sheer hard work, this exhibition would never have happened.
 

Nearly all the artists. From left to right: Sheri Gee, Richard Wombell, Caryl Mann, Robert Meldrum, Kat Ferguson, Charlene Yates, Rebeka Lord, Fran Elliott, Alan Mathers, Chris West, Jenny Harvey. Missing: Jill Waldock and Lynn Warren.

Steve Alliston with Kat and Sheri

Adventure 2012 - Hanging

Got the exhibition hung yesterday.  In the end was too busy to take many photos. Will try to post some more soon.

Richard - Dancer with red skirt

This picture was developed from one of our Life Sessions just before the summer.

Sketch from Life Session

Finished painting

Richard - Summer shadows

A picture I worked on over the summer. Acrylic on canvas 60cmx80cm.

Richard - Painting of Kat

Back in the spring Kat, one of our London Road Group, volunteered to sit for one of our Saturday life drawing sessions. I liked the pose so worked it up into a finished picture. Oil on canvas, 60cmx80cm.

Richard - Winter Birches 2

I've been a bit remiss in posting work over recent months. With our exhibition fast approaching, I thought it would be a good idea to start posting pictures of some of the new work I'll be showing. This first is a set of pictures inspired by the trees in winter on Ashdown Forest.

ADVENTure Art Exhibition

Very excited about our new exhibition, just a few weeks to go!!

Sheri - New beginnings

I've been painting and drawing horses for a while and have been pretty much out of my comfort zone. Not naturally a horse enthusiast, they've been a challenge which has been at times rewarding but at others much less so! So, back in the comfort zone, I'm working on a new portrait of my daughter, reclining. I've just spent a couple of hours on it so far, mapping it out, drawing in the bare bones of the composition to get the proportions right. Many more hours to go, but it's good to be starting something human!

There are a lot of difficult areas that aren't really explained properly in the sketch, but hopefully the lights and darks that come into the painting will answer any questions. This is oil on canvas, about a metre wide.

Lynn Warren at The Gallery, Cork Street

Here are some photos of Lynn's sculptures from the Tactus exhibition at The Gallery, Cork Street,  April 30 - 5 May, 2012. Stunning work, Lynn - well done!

 

 

Richard - Recent Pictures

Like Sheri, I've not posted much here over the last couple of months. To make up, here are some recent pictures.

Sheri - latest portraits

A few times now I’ve been commissioned to do portraits as birthday presents. I always feel there should be a complete embargo on mentioning what I’m working on, publicly, or showing work in progress. I always fear that the recipient may find out, however random or unlikely that may be. So, what may look like a month of inactivity has actually been a period of solid painting. For the last month I’ve been hard at it, working on two portraits, brothers, as a surprise birthday present. Here are the finals - both oil on canvas, 10 x 8 inches, painted from supplied photos.

Michael: Moving on

In future, I'll be posting only on my personal blogs. If you'd like to keep up-to-date with my work in progress, please go to:

michaelwjgage.blogspot.com

and

floatingrabbit.blogspot.com

Hope to see you there!

Michael: Sissinghurst

A dark green layer (the ninth!) across the entire image completes the print.



Sissinghurst. Linocut, 30 x 24 cm.

Michael: Illustration Friday

This week's Illustration Friday theme is "intention". Here's my attempt: Floating Rabbit blog

Michael: Reduction linocut, stage 8

Another layer, in dark green:



Hopefully, one more layer will complete this print.

Life drawings updated

I've at last added the work from recent life drawing sessions to the other blog:

londonroadlifegroup.blogspot.com

Michael: Illustration Friday

This week's Illustration Friday prompt is "capable". Here's my effort:

Emergency at the carrot field

Michael: Reduction linocut, stage 6 and 7

Stage 6: Blue shadow for the wall that goes all the way across the picture.



Stage 7: Spot the difference.



As soon as I had printed all of stage 6, I realised I'd forgotten to put on all the blue that I needed. So stage 7 has just a bit more ink (nearer the top of the image).

Michael: Reduction linocut stages 4 and 5

Two stages for the price of one.

Stage 4 has just a slightly darker green at the bottom of the image.



Stage 5 has a darker green over the rest of the picture.



Can anyone identify the subject yet?

Michael: Reduction linocut, stage 3

Next layer has a gradient from blue-green down to yellow-green.

Michael: Linocut, stage 2

Another layer of colours; fingers crossed that they're not already too dark.

Michael: Popularity

This week's theme for Illustration Friday is "popularity". Here's my entry:

http://floatingrabbit.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-to-increase-your-popularity.html

Michael: New print

Here's the first layer (though there's not much to see yet):



To get some variation in what will be beds of flowers, I inked the block in selected places, using different colours. (Which works well -- apart from when you've finished, you realise that you have five rollers to clean...)

Michael: Illustration Friday

Here's my entry for this week's Illustration Friday theme, "Forward".

Kat: A little bit of printmaking

Here's the print I was drawing a few weeks ago, finally printed it last night...

Michael: Prepare

I got in early this week with my entry for Illustration Friday. This week's word is "Prepare".

Michael: Illustration Friday

My entry for this week's Illustration Friday theme, "Grounded", is over here:

http://floatingrabbit.blogspot.com/2012/01/grounded.html