Fame for a month – Facebook group report October 2022
Are you enjoying our monthly Facebook competition? We have a very loyal group of Members and Friends who regularly contribute posts of their wonderful paintings to the dedicated SEAW Members and Friends Facebook group, following the theme set for the month. And it is always…
Exhibition report from Mel
We were delighted to hold our third WaterWays Exhibition at the Babylon Gallery, Ely, between 1st – 25th September 2023. We hung 110 framed paintings including several Friends paintings and we had a variety of unframed artworks and cards. We encourage our Friends to enter…
TUTORIAL – Considering Composition with Astrig Akseralian
For this exercise I have set up a small still life on a turn table using some of my hand painted collage paper and a remnant of patterned fabric. It’s important to be inspired by what you have set up so it’s worth spending some…
MEET THE MEMBER – Sarah-Cate Blake
Featured image: Joyful Sea by Sarah-Cate Blake When did you start painting? I’ve always enjoyed painting and I’ve kept some of my paintings from as far back as 5 years old when I won a prize for a very jolly clown! Seriously, I trained as…
MEET THE FRIEND – Chris Wright
When did you start painting? In 2015, I suffered from burn out and was out of action for three months. I had experienced this previously in my formative roll as a Police Officer and latterly working in education. This provided me with the opportunity to…
TUTORIAL – Jackie Devereux’s wonky pink pot
I have developed a passion for pots over the years and can never resist an evocative shape in a charity shop window, and in particular those that are hand built or hand thrown and showing signs of pressure marks. I turn them into my own…
TUTORIAL – Alan Noyes: Don’t be afraid of the dark, part I
I am assuming that those of you reading this Newsletter have some experience of the gentle art of watercolour – some more than others, some of you may even be starting afresh with a new medium. Those of us who have some experience of the…
TUTORIAL – Alan Noyes: Don’t be afraid of the dark, part II
Mixing interesting darks This is a difficult one. In theory we only need six pigments on our palette – A warm Red, Yellow and Blue and a cool Red, Yellow and Blue and with those six you should be able to mix any colour your…
MEET THE FRIEND – Ian King
Other art societies you belong to: Wisbech Art Society – I was President for several years, but resigned due to ill- health in 2010. When did you start painting? I was born in the Yorkshire Dales. Both my parents were painters, so my identical twin…
5 tips for great watercolours with Annie Rice
Know your paints Which colours are transparent and which ones opaque? A transparent is clear, beautiful, and will bleed into other colours for wet in wet. Opaques are solid but are useful for detail, overlaying other colours and making a bold statement. An opaque mixed…