Richard - Saturday Life

My picture from Saturday's London Road Life session. Pen and acrylic on card.

Sheri - Willow just about finished

Here's my painting for the Willow Foundation's Stars on Canvas auction, which will take place in December. I painted it over two LRG sessions, and a tiny bit at home, which I pretty much redid. I quite enjoyed this new departure, in the end.

Sheri - A little bit of printing

It's not long now until the Craft and Autumn fair at The Jubilee Community Centre, East Grinstead. Just over a week away in fact (2nd October, 10.30 - 4.30), so I'm pulling out all the stops to produce some screen printed childrens t-shirts to sell, besides the goodies on The London Road Group stall, which will have cards, paintings, prints etc.

I have about 5 designs in total, printing them for ages 2 - 7. I printed the first design today, and hope to have the lot printed by Sunday night if I can.

Here's a shot of my batch from today. Once dry, washed and ironed, I hope to add a few embellishments.

Michael: Ashdown Forest animals

Ashdown Forest was originally a royal hunting ground where monarchs such as Henry VIII hunted animals. Here, we see a group of boar sent out to entertain the king. It was a cold day, so they put on their sensible hats and scarves to keep warm.

Michael: Back

New life drawing group just started.


Pencil on paper, A3.

See more at London Road Life Group.

Richard - Birling Gap

Just to prove there were a few sunny days during August, I've been working on a picture of Birling Gap, which is on the Seven Sisters not far from Beachy Head. I liked this view because the sun was directly overhead, leaving the cliffs almost entirely in shadow. A little more tweaking to do and then I think I'm done.

Richard - Our first life drawing session

On Saturday we held our inaugural Life Session, with seven artists coming along and Jo taking the honours of being our very first model. We were pretty inefficient at getting set up for the first time, but it turned out to be great fun. I’d drawn the short straw to run the session for this week and managed to get my phone covered with oil paint while setting the timer for the poses, but luckily it cleaned up quite nicely. Special thanks to Marina for organizing the attendees and much else, Michael for the baking, our hosts at the JCC for their helpfulness and everyone else for turning up. See you all next time!

Oh, and some sketches from the class ...