Press Release - Writtle Art Group Leslie Bass Trophy

The Writtle Art Group held its annual Autumn Exhibition in Writtle village hall on Saturday 8^th November.

With an excellent attendance and many pictures sold it was a very successful show.  The exhibits maintained their usual high standard and there were many complimentary remarks about the high level of artistic content.

With a great diversity of artwork the visiting public were asked to cast their vote for their favourite picture, where the winning artist would receive the prestigious “Leslie Bass Trophy”.

This year’s worthy winner was Alan Vann with his beautiful and atmospheric watercolour painting of “Sunrise over Heybridge Basin” with 12 votes.  In a “Titanic battle” with 11 votes joint runners-up were Alan again with “Balloon over the Blackwater”, Sheila Deal with “Canal at Dusk” and Peter Robson with Racing Red".

  

Writtle Art Group Autumn Exhibtion

The 2014 Autumn Exhibition held on Saturday the 8th of November attracted nearly 200 visitors who enjoyed viewing well over 300 pictures.  A small selection of paintings are shown below and the usual apologies are offered for the lack of watercolour work (glass reflections make photographing very difficult).

Writtle Art Group looks at Mountain Scenes with People

Wet in wet skies, scraping out rocks, and placing simple people in a composition where all discussed and used in Writtle Art Group's latest tuition session.  Not easy but we all enjoyed having a go!

Jenny French Watercolour Demonstration 10th February

Jenny French joins us on the 10th February and will paint a scene of Burnham Overy Staithe, North Norfolk.  Start time is 10.00 a.m.

Spring Term Tuition

We will have 3  tuition sessions this term.

January 13th with Alan

Mountain Scene  This allows us to look at skies, people in pictures as well as finding another use for all the plastic cards we have in our wallets and purses - we will use them to scrape out rocks!




















March 3rd with Colin Steed - Watercolour 


April 7th with Alan 

Waterfall - Mixing colours on the paper, dropping in colours for texture, and blending are all skills used to create the waterfall rocks. Painting negatively is used to create aspects of the waterfall and we look at two ways of creating water spray effects..

Winter Waterfall

Writtle Art Group looks at Silver Birch Trees

Wet in wet, painting negatively, using side brush techniques for texture, and the use of the rigger brush where skills applied in our latest tutorial.  We've even added a tree loving animal painted by Paul!

We hope you enjoy our work.