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At our local art club, as with many others, we are struggling with falling membership and, consequently, with funds. This means that we are unable to offer the full range of demonstrators and workshops which we have previously enjoyed. We are, therefore, looking for other cost effective means to make our meetings attractive.Among those adopted or to be adopted in the future include: the first half of a session being a demonstration on a particular technique by a club member (and thus at no cost!) followed, in the second half, by the members trying it out for themselves. Foe example I will be doing sessions on painting acrylics with wire wool and twig and ink drawings.In addition we will do a session on painting photographs upside down - 10 minutes per photo then pass them on. This can actually result in some great loose little pieces often worth framing in their own right. The idea is that because they are upside down you paint shapes and colours rather than trying to replicate a scene. Good old dendritic art will also be included along with abstracts in the style which I have adopted using acrylic ink and plenty of water spray.I guess why I am posting this is to see if anyone can suggest any other options which can be used, are good fun for the members and will not cost a fortune. Anyone?
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Michael, a new idea we introduced at our art club last year which has proved very popular was a painting challenge where one member brought along a black and white copy for everyone of a picture by a relatively unknown painter (or it could just be a photograph of a particular subject or scene). We then all painted our own version - any medium and whatever colours we liked. The results were hugely varied and it was fascinating to see the different approaches taken to the same image. Afterwards we were then shown a coloured version of the original artist's painting and spent some time discussing that and the artist's other work. It was one of the workshops we've now decided to repeat each year.
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Great idea Michael, something needs to be done. I remember years back I instigated an activity which was popular but only doen twice, members of the committee ruled again any more on repetition arguments. The idea was initially copied from a Rolf Harris TV programme where many members of the public were given a piece of material and on it they had to copy and image. There were lot and in the end all the copies were placed on a grid and this was an enormous size I think in Trafalgar Sq on scaffolding. The end resulat was a huge image can't remember what but it was fun and highly successful.
So we decided on a Van Gogh still lfe and I got it printed twice to about 4m wide and 3 high, Then we cut one down to A4 sheets and the members were given them plus a piece of A4 paper, a mass of coulours was provided for them all to use, plus brushes.
WE pieced the resaults together and it was a a good represantation of the piece we could show.
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Our group recently did paintings in the style of Klimt - brought in silver and gold paper and other decorative bits and glue. Lots of good results.
We also did a study of hands - we've all got them and they are often left out, because of lack of time. I've posted a few on the gallery today. We also took casts of our hands in alginate and made plaster casts of them.
For life drawing we used dilute ink and a brush to find the shape of the person and then went in with a pen of black ink to finalise the lines. Good practice to speed up your drawing.
Another time we found forgotten corners in and around our houses, photographed them and then painted them. Result already on the gallery.
Hope this helps. Linda
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My art class today was on location.....in a scrap yard.....it was brilliant! A repeat of the charcoal base then rubbing/scratching out to create the tones and textures of the subject. Mine was rubbish but there were some super abstract pieces done from a pile of plastic car bumpers. Very messy though Michael!
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Lots of very good ideas here. May I just add one of ours. For an exhibition we were divided into groups to paint a landscape through the four seasons. The landscape was divided in half. So one of us had to paint the left half of the picture in spring colours and someone else painted the right half. So it went on through summer, autumn and winter colours. Here is the result