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ELEF Art Supplies Birthday Sale

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A message from ELEF Art Supplies

To celebrate our 1st Birthday and to say thank you for making us such a success we would like to offer you 25% off our quality art materials for two days just before the summer holidays in July, Wednesday 19th July and Sunday 23rd July.

On the celebration days we will be open Wednesday 19th, 9.00 till 17.30 and Sunday 23rd July 11.00 to 16.00

We can be found about 20 minutes from Winchester, Salisbury and Romsey, about 35 minutes from Southampton in the picturesque village of Stockbridge famous for its River Test and high end shopping. Parking is free and we have no steps to negotiate.

Elefs Art Supplies

High Street

Stockbridge

Hants

SO20 6HB

 

Salisbury end of Stockbridge

Opposite the Greyhound Pub.

 

To Contact ELEF Art Supplies – Tel: 07455452198

Or on the web at elefsartsupplies.co.uk

Or on social media @elefsart supplies

 

Finally can I wish those doing the Hampshire open studio’s with us from the 19th – 28th August 2017, good luck. Free Brochures will be available from here by the 19th July.

 

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Little or Large?

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 Size Matters

What size image and what size support you use are very important elements in composition. Size matters.

What size paper/canvas/board are you working towards? What size image? What about the space?  It is so easy to pick up the same old sketch book and do the same thing time and again. Let’s make it more interesting. In this class you will be encouraged to be creative about size.

27th Sept. £45 /class  9.30am – 12.45pm

I think Tuesday is meant to be sodden.  If you want to come to this class at Wherwell Priory Studio contact me for more details and availability kate@artdrawpaint.com

Roche Court, East Winterslow

http://sculpture.uk.com/programme/darren-almond-new-work-in-the-gallery-and-park/

I went to Roche Court last week and saw the  new exhibition by Darren Almond. Below is a brief extract about some of his work there.  It is particularly relevant to this class.  He has produced beautiful paintings of hypothetical views of space with colour, light and distance captured in a strangely recognisable way. I have no idea what he is painting, but I know it is space. Into this space are tiny specks of distant stars. Their size and the size of pictures make you feel very, very small.

 

 Darren Almond: new work

17 Sep – 13 Nov 2016

Almond makes work which explores ideas about time, space, history and memory and how these abstract concepts intersect and impact on the individual. At the very core of his work is an exploration of time and space and for the viewer, they raise fundamental questions about our very existence.
In the gallery, Almond will show a series of ‘Timescape’ paintings, which explore his preoccupation with time and space to their absolute limits. They suggest the conundrum, that although we know a certain amount about deep space, there is still so much that remains – at least for now – unknowable. Conceptually, these depictions of the outer reaches of the cosmos engulf us in the beauty of the Milky Way; the colourful and dreamlike atmospheres which Almond has captured ultimately remind us of our insignificance within the enormity of the universe.
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What would the Fauves do?

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The Fauves wanted to pique the emotions by reducing forms to their essentials and the use of often saturated colour. They were reacting to the Impressionist painters who worked just before them, and were particularly inspired by Van Gogh and Gauguin. The term Fauves is applied to a fairly loose group including amongst others  Derain, Matisse, Vlaminck, Dufy and early works from Kandinsky. Kandinsky went on to be a pioneer of the Abstract Expressionist – with a landmark exhibition just opened at the Royal Academy.

On Wednesday 28th September there is a course at the Riverside Yurt Cafe, Brandesbury, on the banks of the River Test. The BBC promise a sunny day and we will be looking at the beautiful setting asking “What would the Fauves do?”

Contact me for more details and availability kate@artdrawpaint.com

The course is from 9.30am – 4.00pm, £70 including a light lunch and coffee.

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FREE taster day – Learning to Look

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If you haven’t been to any of my classes before you might be a bit anxious about embarking on a course without knowing what you are letting yourself in for. Try this taster day, the first of the Still Life sessions of the term.

20th September,  9.30am – 12.45pm

Free ‘taster’ class open on a first come, first serve basis. Open to anyone whether you have been to a course with me before, or not. Please email me if you wish to come along; I need to know numbers.

This is the basis of all drawing and painting and is surprisingly easy to ignore, especially when you think you ‘know’ an object. There will be a number of exercises to help you really SEE what is in front of you.

This class will show you various ways to trick you into seeing what is in front of you.

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