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Denmead Art Group meets fortnightly at Denmead Community Centre, School Lane

This Website is to show the work produced by our members mostly during our sessions

The sessions are a mixture of themed, please yourself and guest demonstrations .
Not all paintings shown are completed, hopefully the uncompleted ones will be shown again when finished

New members are welcome. Please contact Jeannie Brown on 02392 258136 or [email protected]

Spring Term 2025

January 8th - Please yourself January 22nd - Now you see it --- February 5th - Please yourself February 19th - Spring flowers/pastel March 5th - Please yourself March 19th - Painting knives/acrylic April 2nd - Please yourself April 16th - Zentangles Summer term starts April 16th

March 5th - Please yourself

February 19th - Spring flowers in pastel

February 5th - Please yourself

Now you see it - - -
We looked at an object for about 2 minutes, it was then covered up and we drew it in charcoal, then it was uncovered and we drew it again in conte sanguine. We were sitting in a circle so everyone had different view of the items

Dec 18th - Christmas celebration - Pictures we are proud of!

Dec 4th - Please yourself

Nov 20th - Still life ink and stick

6th November - Please yourself

23rd October Autumn leaves

October 9th - Please yourself

September 25th - Wish I was here

September 11th - Please yourself

Summer Term 2024

April 24th - Please yourself May 8th - I'm all ears May 22nd - Please yourself
June 5th - Bouquet (collage) June 19th - Please yourself July 3rd - Black and White
July 17th - Please yourself July 31st - Three Colour Landscape AutumnTerm starts September 11th

Fees £20 per term

July 31st - Three Colour Landscape

July 17th - Please yourself

July 3rd - Please yourself

June 19th - Please yourself

June 5th - Bouquet (collage)

May 22nd - Please yourself

May 8th - I'm all ears

April 24th - Please yourself

March 27th - Please yourself

March 13th - Monochrome Landscape

February 14th - Still Life

January 31st Please yourself

January 17th - There's nothing like a Dame

January 3rd - Please yourself

December - Celebrations
Paintings we are proud of!

November 29th - Please yourself

November 15th Sonia Passingham Demonstration

November 1st - Please yourself

October 18th - Pen and Paper

September 20th - Charcoal and brown paper

Summer Term 2023

26th July - Sunflowers

12th July - Please yourself

28th June - Ink and Stick

14th June - Please yourself

31st May - Now you see it now you don't

17th May - Please Your self

19th April - Please yourself

31st March - Easter Card Competition

15th March - Three colour Palette

1st March - Please yourself

15th February - Five a day

1st February - Please yourself

18th Jan - Seascape

4th Jan - Please Yourself

Autummn Term 2022

7th September - Please yourself 21st Sept - Now you see it------ 5th Oct - Please yourself
19th Oct - Zentangles 2nd Nov - Please yourself 16th Nov. - It's all about me
30th Nov. - Please yourself 14th Dec. - Prosecco and cake etc.

Spring term starts - January 4th 2023
Fees £20 per term

14th Dec. - Prosecco and cake etc.

30th Nov. - Please yourself

16th Nov. - It's all about me

2nd Nov - Please yourself

19th Oct - Zentangles

5th Oct - Please yourself

21st September - Now you see it

“Now you see it , now you don’t “.
Look at the subject for a few mins , cover it up and draw from memory. So hard. Uncover and draw again. See the difference.

7th September - Please Yourself

July 20th - Please yourself
Some completed paintings and some work in progress

July 6th - Landscape in acrylic
Some completed paintings and some work in progress

June 22nd - Please yourself
Some completed paintings and some work in progress

June 8th - Little Nipper
draw the statue shown below in charcoal
Some completed paintings and some work in progress

May 25th - Please yourself
Some completed paintings and some work in progress

27th April - Please Yourself
Some completed paintings and some work in progress

April 13th - Easter Flowers
Some completed paintings and some work in progress

March 16th - Collage
Some completed paintings and some work in progress

March 2nd - Please yourself
Some completed paintings and some work in progress

Feb 16th - Still Life
Some completed paintings and some work in progress

Feb 2nd - Please yourself
Some completed paintings and some work in progress

Jan 19th - Action
(drawing on large sheets of paper in Charcoal)

January 5th - Please yourself
Some completed paintings and some unfinished

Dec 15th - Prosecco and Cake
The first 5 are entries in our Christmas Card competition.

Dec 1st - Please yourself

3rd November - Please yourself
(work in progress and some completed pictures)

20th October - Ink, stick and wash

6th October - Please yourself
(work in progress and some completed pictures)

22nd Sept - BIG. Large sheets of paper
with drawings in charcoal.

For more paintings done by our members during Lockdown click on the header Lockdown paintings
Below Jeannies challenges, including the resulting paintings by members.

New challenge from Jeannie. Three pieces of fruit, in any medium, including collage.

Painted by Kathy

Painted by Ann

Painted by Jeannie
"finger painted on an iPad"

Challenge from Lesley
We are all missing people we love and are unable to get close to. So this challenge is to paint/draw a picture of the person family or friend, who you want to Hug as soon as it is allowed. (This should be someone it is not permitted to hug or cuddle now.) The picture can be in any medium and when completed should be photographed and sent to me I look forward to seeing who you are really hoping to hug or cuddle. I know who I will paint/draw, and hug as soon as allowed. Lesley

Not exactly the remit but it
was too difficult to choose!

Painted by Jeannie

Beautiful granddaughter Freya leaping into a pool.

painted by Kathy

.

My Grandson Ethan,

Painted by Lesley

The next challenge from Jeannie
Three peonies from my garden. Ignoring the canes, paint them using any
medium.
Be bold , these are not shy flowers. You could even try using ink and
>a stick!

Christmas Card competition entries

Peonys
Painted by Wayne.

Peonys
Painted by Lesley
.

peonys
painted by Kathy.

Peonys
painted by Jeannie.

Peonys
Painted by Guy

Another challenge from Jeannie
By using your own hand as the model, draw a couple of poses. Because a tinted paper was used, white chalk was added for the highlights.

Drawing by Wayne

Painted by Guy

Painted by Kathy.

The Next challenge from Jeannie
the sunlight / shadows coming through the glass make a good subject for you to tackle.
You can use your own reference material as long as it has similar strong contrasts.

Painted by Wayne

Jeannie's painting of

her own challenge

Painted by Kathy

Painted by Ann

Shadows

Painted by Lesley

painted by Guy.

Another new challenge from Jeannie
Although lockdown has eased, some of us feel safer at home but we can imagine places where we would like to be. So using any medium, paint a real or imaginary place where this could be.
Do not forget to send in a picture when you have completed any of the challenges.

Imaginary scene in oils Painted by Jeannie

Birthday at Bembridge

Painted by Ann

Looking from the Downs to Chichester

Painted by Guy

Painted by John

My favourite ship

Painted by Lesley

Glastonbury Tor
Painted by Kathy.

Jeannies Studio

Painted by Kathy.

A Further challenge from Jeannie
Using watercolour, paint a pair of boots( or shoes) in monochrome. i.e. one colour which gives a good range of tonal contrasts. Indigo has been used here but you could use sepia, paynes grey, burnt umber etc. A wash was applied first and I tried to use wet- into - wet as much as possible.

 Painted by John

Walking Shoes

painted by Wayne

Walking boots

painted by Lesley.

Walking boots

painted by Ann

Caterpillar boots

painted by Kathy.

Shoes, Painted by Guy.

More challenges from Jeannie
Paint either a garden or a domestic bird in the medium / media of your choice
See Jeannie's below. (the domestic birds were painted on Jeannie's iPad)
Don't forget to send a photo when you have completed the challenge.

Painted by John

Rooster, Painted by Wayne

Peacock, painted by Guy

A Chaffinch painted by Lesley.

Sea Gulls painted by Kathy

Geese painted by Ann

Another challenge from Jeannie
Old masters / New masters
The challenge is to copy a famous painting or two of your own choice. One from previous centuries and one from this century, in any medium you choose.

e

Samuel Palmers
“The Magic Apple Tree"
painted by Beverley

Painted by Lesley,
my attempt at
Venice by Edward Seago.

Painted by Lesley
Starry night with apologies to
Vincent Van Gogh
My first attempt at using ink
(with a bit of help from my Sharpies)

Painted by Wayne
his attempt at a tribute to Seago in pencil (a first attempt at pencil work for me).

Ann's version of
Claude Monet’s
Il Ponte di Bougival.

Kathy paintings for the challenge, with apologies to Picasso and Gauguin

Dr with Shrivelled hand in 4 parts painted by Guy

Copy of

Dr. Gachet by Van Gogh

Painted by Jeannie.

Copy of

Seascape by
Edward Seago

Painted by Jeannie.

A challenge from Jeannie

Above is a photo from Jeannie's Garden. She would like you to paint it using Pen and Wash.

Jeannie' s Garden

Painted by John.

An Inked photo of Jeannie's Garden

Inked by John

Jeannie's Garden
painted by

Wayne

Jeannie's Garden painted

by Jeannie.

Painting of Jeanne's
Garden.

by Ann

Painting of Jeannie's Garden

by Lesley

Painting of Jeannie's
garden

by Kathy

Painting of Jeannie's
Garden by

Guy

March 4th 2020 - Please yourself
(work in progress and some completed pictures)

February 19th 2020
Demonstration by Jeannie

Demonstration, using the following colours.
Paynes Grey    - Cotman
Dioxazine - Cotman
   Terre Vert (Yellow Shade)    - Windsor and Newton
   Transparent Yellow    - Windsor and Newton
Ultramarine    - Horadam (Schmincke)
Lapis Lazuli - Horadam (Schmincke)

The
finished
Picture

February 5th 2020 - Please yourself
(work in progress and some completed pictures)

22nd January 2020 - Watch with Mother

We had an enjoyable morning watching video's of demonstrations including painting landscapes and also tips and techniques by Various Artists, and took a quick tour of our website and hopefully everyone learned something new.

8th January 2020 - Please yourself
(work in progress and some completed pictures)

11th Dec 2019 - Party including
Best Picture competition and
Christmas Card competition.

Christmas Card Competition Entries

Best Picture Competition Entries

And the winners are...……..

Other work not in competition

27th Nov 2019 Please yourself
(work in progress and some completed pictures including work from 13th Nov session)

13th Nov 2019 Landscape in collage
(mostly work in progress)

30th Oct 2019 - Please Yourself
(work in progress and some completed pictures including additional and completed work from 16th Oct session)

16th Oct 2019 - Charcoal and chalk
(work in progress and some completed pictures)

2nd Oct 2019 - Please Yourself
(work in progress and some completed pictures)

18th September 2019
Skies (in various media)

4th Sept 2019 - Please Yourself
(work in progress and some completed pictures)

31st July 2019 - Please Yourself
(work in progress and some completed pictures)

July 17th - Now you see it ------

3rd July 2019 - Please Yourself
(work in progress and some completed pictures)

June 19th - Demonstration, Sue Colyer

5th June 2019 - Please Yourself
(work in progress and some completed pictures)

22nd May 2019 - Spring Blossom in Watercolour
(work in progress and some completed pictures)

8th May 2019 - Please yourself
(work in progress and some completed pictures)

17th April 2019 - Zentangles
some in progress and some completed

3rd April 2019 - Please yourself
(work in progress and some completed pictures)

20th March 2019 - Woodland in Acrylic

6th March 2019 - Please yourself
(work in progress and some completed pictures)

20th February 2019 - Abstract Collage

6th February 2019 - Please yourself
(work in progress and some completed pictures)

23rd January 2019 - Still Life
(On large sheets of paper mostly with Charcoal)

9th January 2019 - Please yourself
(work in progress and some completed pictures)

19th December 2018 - Christmas Party

Entries for best painting

Entries for best Christmas Card

And the winners were:

Painting
- John Richards

Christmas Card
- Jean Hogg

5th December 2018 - Please yourself
(work in progress and some completed pictures)

21st November 2018 - Still life
(work in progress and some completed pictures)

7th November 2018 - Please yourself
(work in progress and some completed pictures,
including some further work on the pen and Wash from our last session)

24th October 2018 - Pen and Wash
(experimenting with pen and wash using Speedball Elegant Writer calligraphy marker
and Yupo synthetic paper)

10th October 2018 - Please yourself session
(work in progress and some completed pictures)

26th September 2018 - Demonstration by Lynn Davies
(Woodland scene)

12th September 2018 - Please yourself session
(work in progress and some completed pictures)

18th July 2018 - Our final please yourself session
before the summer break
(work in progress and some completed pictures)

4th July 2018 - A demonstration by Sharon Hurst
First samples of her work and then pictures of the demonstration

20th June 2018 - A Please yourself session
(work in progress and some completed pictures)

6th June 2018 - Flowers and Gardens
(some completed work and some still in progress)

23rd May 2018 - A Please yourself session
(work in progress and some completed pictures)

9th May 2018 - Pen and wash
some of these pictures are finished and some are work in progress

25th April 2018 - Ink and stick
We used wooden coffee stirrers to draw pictures with ink inspired by Van Gogh

28th March and 11th April 2018
Two please yourself sessions
some of the same picture from both sessions, see how they are progressing.

14th March 2018 - Monochrome
We all painted pictures with the same colour, an exercise in shading.

28th February 2018,
Please yourself session (work in progress and some experimental pictures)

14th February 2018
Please yourself session
mostly work in progress

31st January 2018.
Another Please yourself session

17th January 2018 Opposites
Today we all tried drawing with our non dominant hand.
(Right handers with their left, and left handers with their right)
most of us found this quite difficult, but improved as the morning progressed

3rd January 2018
Please yourself. (Mostly paintings in progress)

13th December 2017
Christmas party, raffle and art competitions

Annual picture competition

Christmas card competition

And the winners were.....................

29th November 2017
Please yourself
More work in progress

15th November 2017
"What would happen if....."

Experimenting with cling film, salt, blowing paint, wax crayons, bleach, spattering and sponging
Can you spot what we did in each picture?

1st November 2017
Please yourself day
(mostly work in progress)

18th October 2017
Still Life
(We sat in two circles, so we all had a different view)

4th October 2017
Another "Please yourself day"

SOme of the paintings in progress

20th September 2017
A demonstration in Acrylic inks by Julie Weir
www.julieweir.co.uk

This was a medium new to most of us, and inspired us to try it.

6th September 2017.
A Please yourself session to start the new term.
(including some work still in progress from last session)

26th July 2017 Garden painting session cancelled due to wet weather. Instead we had a "Please yourself session" indoors.
Below some paintings in progress by our members.

12th July 2017. Today's session was "Please yourself"
Below paintings in progress by our members.

28th June 2017. Today's session was:
A Gouache Demonstration by Melanie Cambridge
www.melaniecambridge.com

,	We were shown how to add texture to a gouche or watercolour painting and also some colour mixing tips, and fun was had by all.

Also a live painting demonstration

31st May 2017. Today's session was "Let's face it 2.
We drew self portraits by looking at ourselves in the mirror.
See our efforts below

Now some pictures together with the artist - Do the pictures look like their artist??

17th May 2017. Today's session was "Let's face it 1.
We drew and basic face from a plan in charcoal, and then blended and added details. See below for initial drawings and finished pictures.

Initial drawings

Finished drawings

June 2016 we learnt about using a different technique. The session was called 'Broken Brush work' where we used Acrylic, Pastel and/or Coloured Pencil.

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