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Monday, 17 June 2024
Blooming June!
Saturday, 15 June 2024
This week in the studio we painted...
Quails eggs and pebbles! This subject is just gorgeous to paint - I love the similarities of shape and scale and pattern. Luckily, my students loved it too. There is not much drawing involved, leaving more time during class to spend on the paint layering.
Above - this photo shows the start of my demonstration. I worked on several stones/pebbles at a time, which meant that I didn't 'poke' around when things got too wet to play with (I don't like waiting for things to dry...), but instead transferred my attention to another pebble to build up the layers gently.
I worked in a Moleskine book, A4 size, and used the page next to my drawing for colour tiles, as well as demo-ing possible processes.
Below - eggs for lunch! It took 9 eggs to make a modest amount of scrambled egg. But the biggest joy was the colour of the shells on the inside when I cracked them open - the softest, gentlest shades of blue. Delicious.
Thursday, 6 June 2024
Summer workshop add-ons
The Summer 2024 Programme of Workshops (check back as there may be additions)
June - 15th Drawing & Painting for age 8 - 18. Sharpen the drawing skills and brush up on painting in this session. Fun and fully tutored. Cost £35 per person
Friday 21st June 6pm - 8pm Life drawing. Fully tutored, with poses short and long. Cost £40
22nd - As part of the Comber Earlies Food Festival, a watercolour, pen and wash workshop, Comber Doorways. £45 The studio is on the way to the food festival - this is food for your eyes! 2.30 - 4.30.
Saturday 22nd June 6.30pm - 9.30 pm Portrait drawing session as part of National Portrait Day! We will draw a famous face in graphite pencil! Cost £75
July 17th & 18th Wonderful Watercolours! Understand the process and techniques to create lovely paintings from washes to pen using paint alone with graphite pencil and pen. Skies, landscape and still life. £220
July 20th Figure Drawing (clothed model), including long and shorter poses in any dry media. Fully tutored. £110
July 22- 24th Colour pencil. All things animal! Looking at texture, tonal variations, hair, fur and how to creat believable lovely colour pencil drawings. 10.30 - 4pm. £330
July 27 Portrait in pencil. 2.30 - 6.30 £100 Intensive, concept-changing workshop which changes your perception and improves your skills.
August 7th & 8th Portrait drawing including graphite and colour pencil.
August 12th - 14th Portrait in oils - includes colour mixing and how to work with a limited palette. This can be extended for an extra day if students need more time. £350
August 16th - 17th Birds. Drawing and on to colour using ether water colour or colour pencils. £220
Please note, courses are added regularly so please email if you'd like to be kept updated. Please also get in touch if you'd like to do something which is not listed here OR if you'd like to do something but can't make the date, and I will do my best to accommodate you.
Tuesday, 4 June 2024
Art hoiday in Cavtat, Croatia
There is something special about going away to somewhere warm and lovely with a group of like minded souls. Cavtat, just south of Dubrovnik, ticked all the right boxes, and even gave us lovely weather in spite of the forecast. Warm with a breeze - perfect.
Above - the view from our hotel. Below - across the bay to the back of the tow.
Below - Cavtat is at the base of a small peninsula, which we walked many times. It offered shade as well as beautiful little bays and beaches.
Below - Cavtat is full of friendly, sleepy cats. Here (below) is one asleep on a hot tin roof...
Below - more cats...
The first day we set up on the broad terrace in front of the hotel, and looked across the bay to a wonderful clump of trees. This meant we could sit on large comfy seats and not suffer too much discomfort to begin the week.
Above and below, my first demo
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| Student work |
The next day was a little bit overcast, so I chose for us to draw and paint the arched walkway as this didn't rely on sunshine and shade in the same way that other subjects would. There was definitely 'suffering' doing this, with a lesson in perspective as well as colour and tones.
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| Some of the students and I at break time..! |
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| arches demo |
Above - demo of the arches
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| Clodagh on the boat in Montenegro |
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| Lorraine and Sara hard at work |
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| Clive, sitting in a huge seat outside the city walls in Kotor, Montenegro |
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| Sunset over Cavtat |
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| Above and below, lovely little studies by Ruth |
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| Ruth, not stopping for the rain! |
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| Christine cooling down! |
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| demo in Cavtat |
Above and below - the demo on the last day, of the town itself on the hill
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| Finished demo |
On the afternoon of the last day we met again after lunch and walked along the peninsula to do two more drawings, of steps leading down to the sea and a tree leaning towards the water
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| The afternoon demos |
A lovely trip, and my favourite days were the ones with the most drawing in them...
For info on classes and upcoming workshops please email julie@juliedouglas.co.uk
Summer workshop programme available on my website www.juliedouglas.co.uk
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