RampArts Group
Due to the Coronavirus outbreak our weekly meetings have been cancelled until further notice. This page is to allow Rosemary to post ideas and completed work from members.
25 May 2020 Three pieces this week from Paul, Robert and Angela
Paul Morel: Skye
Robert Reece: The Hotel Inspector
Angela Tovell: Boats
18 May 2020 Lots of pieces this week from Steve, Ron, Penny, Katy, Margie, Veronica and Angela
Steve Chambers: Still Life
Ron Dickens: Kingfishers
Katy McConkey: Landscape
Margie McEvoy: Still Life
Penny Hay: Circles, Sunset, and Trees
Veronica Taylor: Blissful Isolation
Angela Tovell: Still Life
11 May 2020 Five pieces received this week from Steve, Margie and Veronica
Steve Chambers: Self-Portrait
Margie McEvoy: Maisie, Wicken Fen and Circles
Veronica Taylor: Fishing Boats at Harbour
5 May 2020 Rosemary: This week's topics:
- Pen Portraits (Grayson Perry started with portraits). Keeping the pen on the paper and drawwing from side to side/top to bottom/round and round etc. Fill in with colour.
- Still Life in black line making sure that all the paper is covered and thinking about different shading. The two pieces below illustrate this week's topic.
Jan Powell: Brenda Ward and a monocolour still life by ??????
4 May 2020 We have new pieces from Steve Chambers, Paul Morel, Robert Reece and Angela Tovell this week.
Steve Chambers: Kingfisher (coloured pencil)
Paul Morel: Thailand and Anglesey Abbey
Robert Reece: Copy of Paul Signac's View of St Tropez
Angela Tovell: The Lake
28 April 2020 From Rosemary: It would be great to get everyone to put up a picture - I hope a lack of materials is not a problem. Steve Chambers also did another fantastic picture using a forgotten box of crayons. Don't forget collage - easy to cut up magazines and flour and water makes good paste. Of course, if you're like me, photographing the finished article and sending it off is difficult!
27 April 2020 Pieces this week from Steve Chambers, Rosemary Millar, Veronica Taylor, and Angela Tovell. We have a new virtual member this week - Ron Dickens from Perthshire. A few of his bird paintings below.
Also Trevor sent some Youtube advice re photographing your art - see Saatchi's art photography advice Thanks Trevor - really helpful.
Ron Dickens: Nuthatch and Treecreeper, Wheatear, and Long-eared Owl (all using acrylic)
Steve Chambers: Ascending Bubbles (pastels), and Lovebirds (coloured pencils)
Rosemary Millar: Splendid Isolation
Veronica Taylor: Morning Sunshine
Angela Tovell
22 April 2020 Apologies to Jane Price - this one from a few weeks ago had slipped through early cracks.
Jane Price: Waterscape
21 April 2020 From Rosemary Helen Culnane suggested a project. Collect round objects and draw round them. They can overlap. Create a theme around abstract concepts - e.g. happiness, cold, bliss etc and, with a limited range of colours and tones, fill in the shapes. Helen's exercises of Opulence, Drama, Spring, Mystery and Innocence are below. Can you tell which is which?
Spring, Innocence, Drama, Mystery, and Opulence
20 April 2020 Work from Helen Culnane, Paul Morel and Steve Ferris this week
Helen Culnane: Mustill's Lane
Steve Ferris: Splendid Isolation
Paul Morel: Isolation (reading ,drinking, worrying and eating chocolate just about covers it!)
...and a reminder from Rosemary of one of our earlier group pictures.from Bruegel . You don't see scenes like that now ...but we will!
14 April 2020 From Rosemary "I see Grayson Perry is on Channel 4 on Thursday. I've never quite forgiven him for talking about "little old ladies art groups" but now he's doing one himself! Let's see what it's like - let's hope it isn't just a demonstration.
If you have pictures or ideas for pictures send them via email to [email protected]
13 April 2020 Four new pieces today - two from Paul Morel. Magic and The Landscape
...and two from Veronica Taylor: Countryside View and Courtyard View
08 April 2020 Some fun from the Heong Gallery (via Jane). Thomas Gainsborough painted several society ladies in and around Bath in 1763. We can tell they were painted around the same time because of the similarity in poses and clothing. Pretty as they are, the Heong Gallery believes their dresses could do with a bit of colour. Try your hand at dressing the Gainsborough ladies. You can download and print or save and colour online. Click here Heong Gallery Museums from Home.
07 April 2020 A couple from Steve Chambers today on the Getty Museum recreation theme.
Gustav Klimt's Tannewald
...and a wonderful Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring
06 April 2020 Several new pieces today
From Margie McEvoy
and from Angela Tovell
Two from Robert Reece
02 April 2020 From Jane today - if you have a moment why not try recreating a famous painting with objects/people/animals that you have at home? Click here to see some fabulous examples from the Getty Museum. If nothing else some of them will hopefully raise a smile
30 March 2020 - lots to add today!
From Janet Stockley
From Graham Mumby "a quick painting from a holiday photo using the canvas. Evening in Haldikik Greece looking out towards Mount Olympus
From Rosemary's daughter, Katy who many of you know. The view from her window, where she is now living away from Barcelona
From Steve Chambers. This painting was inspired by a free session on Facebook run daily by "The Paint Republic" whilst the schools are shut. It is an organisation that run fun art classes in normal times for adults focused chiefly on folks that are not active artists. The free sessions are daily (not weekends) 11 to 12 and are for anybody though a lot of the audience is clearly children. They have some interesting ideas and techniques and get a reasonable result in the hour session. Don't know if anyone would be interested, it is something else to do when we are all stuck in doors. https://www.facebook.com/thepaintrepublic/
28 March 2020 A piece from Robert Gumby this week. Some may remember this subject as he did a miniature of it in class.
21 March 2020: A few pieces from Veronica
20 March 2020: Delighted that Steve is still with us as a virtual member of RampArts although he now lives in Derbyshire! Here is his watercolour landscape.
17 March 2020: Rosemary. Continue with work on landscape using the canvas (if you took one). If you have no paints then try any other media - collage, pencils, pens
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