Photography Sessions · Workshops

Mindful Photography – Light & Shade

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This Saturday 20th March 2021 our session is Mindful Photography with Ray Hobbs. 

Working with Documentary Photographer Ray Hobbs we will explore ‘Mindful Photography in your home’ looking how to look at your home in a new light…

Materials: your camera, camera phone and you!

For this Mindful Photography workshop, we shall be considering Light & Shade in the home. The brief is to produce a set of five images using any camera or phone you may have.
The objective is to consider how natural and/or artificial light impacts on our home environment.
It may be the passing of light through a glass bottle containing a coloured liquid or the effects of shadow on a surface or how light bends around objects; the choice is yours.
I shall be presenting a short PowerPoint presentation of images I took with a simple compact camera. 

You are then invited to email your chosen five images to me via WeTransfer with any comments or poems you may wish to accompany the images. I will prepare a PowerPoint presentation of your images for presentation for Saturday 27th March and following any amendments you may wish to make; I’ll create a blog for you to share. 

I look forward to seeing you on Saturday 20th March for the workshop. 

Interested in joining us then please email us at gwendraethartslab@gmail.com. We look forward to seeing you!

Workshop Details:

Mindful Photography – Light & Shade

Deliver by Documentary Photographer Ray Hobbs

Date: 20th March 2021

Time: 10:30 – 12 noon

Via Zoom – please email for log in Details

Online Sketching Sessions · Workshops

Drawing Poems

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On Saturday 6th March we are ‘Drawing Poems’ in our Online Session, inspired by the work of Peter Blake and his 20+ years art project of recreating the characters of Dylan Thomas’s ‘Under Milk Wood’.

To find out more about his project go to the National Museum of Wales website.

Look forward to seeing you!

Want to join us from 10.30-12 noon on Saturday 6th March 2021 then please email us at gwendraethartslab@gmail.com.

Online Sketching Sessions · Workshops

Joy of Drawing

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We are back with our online sessions, we’ve had an extended break and missed you all! Hope you have been keeping safe and well?

We thought that we would get back into the swing of things by a gentle 2 hour session with the ‘Joy of Drawing’.

We are going to set out to rediscover our Joy of Drawing and blow the cobwebs away.

Session Details
You will need a Plate and Knife and Fork – for our subject!

  • We will do a warm-up using our bodies and minds…
  • Then into a series of exercises using coloured pencils/pens/pastels
  • Making delicious fine line marks experiments,
  • Drawing around the plate and knife and fork
  • And drawing our faces from memory!
    • using quick line techniques
    • other hand
    • blind
    • 360/180/90/45 degree sketches
    • Additional pattern techniques
    • Plus Blending and blurring lines…

Required Materials
What ever you have to available:
Pencils, coloured crayons, wax crayons, pastels, oil/chalk, pens (biros) felt tip pens, marker pens.
Paper – Scraps of any type of paper, coloured, light cardboard

Details of the Session:

Saturday 30th January 2021 10.30am – 12.30pm

Via Zoom – to register please contact Roz on gwendraethartslab@gmail.com or 07818 036 434

FREE & OPEN TO ALL Complete Beginners – Experienced Artists

Online Sketching Sessions · Workshops

Mask Making Part One

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We are having a week off this Saturday! – So No Online Session on the 14th November – But we are back on the Zoom on the 21st November at 11am with Papier Mache Mask Making Part One.

We will be showing two techniques on how to make the mask:

  1. Using Aluminium Foil that you mould to your own face
  2. Using Newspaper and Aluminium Foil that you create into a mask shape 

What you will need:

  • Newspaper – Lots
  • Tissue Paper
  • Aluminium Foil – Thick 
  • A Board – or very thick cardboard to use as a base to mount the mask on when you are working on it
  • Thin cardboard/Egg boxes/Textured card 
  • Masking Tape
  • Scissors
  • For the Paste – Plain Flour or Corn Flour
  • Water
  • Spoon
  • Bowl
  • Plate
  • Cloth – to wipe your hands

For the Design and Decoration of Mask

  • Paper
  • Pencils/Pens/Crayons
  • Paints/Brushes

Collection of items for your garden or home that you might want to include with your mask

  • Seeds
  • Feather
  • Leaves
  • Twigs
  • Strings/Ribbons
  • Fabrics
  • Etc…
  • Objects that can create textures and patterns 
You will need Thick Aluminium Foil & Newspaper your mache mix and collection of items to shape and decorate your mask with…

See you on the 21st November 2020 at 11am for Papier Mache Mask Making Part One.

Not signed up already then please email Roz at gwendraethartslab@gmail.com

Online Sketching Sessions · Photography Sessions · Workshops

Mindful Photography At Home

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On Saturday 7th November 2020 we are going to have our second photography workshop.

We would like you to join us and our Associate Documentary Photography Ray Hobbs for ‘Mindful Photography At Home’

We will be meeting in your own home at 11am via Zoom and the session will run for 2 hours.

With the use of your own camera or camera phone (if you don’t have a camera and are in the Gwendraeth Area we can loan you one – just contact Roz – details below).

You are invited to express your feelings about Your Home, Ray will introduce the concept of Mindful Photography and discuss how you might want to go about looking at your home in a new light!

In the meantime please check out Ray’s previous presentation on our #Beachheritage Mindful Photography workshop and the images that were taken.

And remember to post and share your photos if you want on instagram and twitter and Facebook and tag with #GALSmyhome and #gwendraethartslab @gwendraethartslab

Online Sketching Sessions · Sketchbook Walks

dates for your diary

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Here are the dates for our Gwendraeth Arts Lab online and sketchbook sessions between now and the end of the year.

If you’d like to join us, save these dates in your diaries, and get in touch with us by email to receive more details!

Sessions are on Saturday mornings:

October 10th

October 17th

October 31st

November 7th

November 21st

November 28th

December 5th

December 12th

Sketchbook Walks

Beach Sketchbook Walk

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On Saturday 19th September 2020 we are having a sketchbook walk this is a follow-on from our amazing Mindful Photography workshop that happened last week! 

We would like you to join our Gwendraeth Arts Lab Artists on the Burry Port Beach for a sketchbook walk to express your feelings about the Carmarthen Bay Power Generation Plant, which was demolished in 1990. Observing the demolition landscape and considering the extensive natural erosion of the beach and the man-made and natural cliffs, which has exposed fragments of machinery and the original structures.

Burry Port Beach looking North

Bring – Pencils/Pens/Coloured Pencils with a sketchbook

Plus – Wax Crayons/Thin-Light Weight Paper for Rubbings

You are invited to consider this industrial ephemera #beachheritage 

*** COVID-19***

All Covid-19 Precautions are taken

We social distance at all times, we wear masks when required & have hand sanitizers/wipes just in case…

If you are joining us tomorrow, then the details are:

Details of the Session:

Saturday 19th September 2020 11am – 12.30pm

At the Burry Port Harbour (East) SA16 0ER 

Meeting at the very far end of the car park (lots of potholes so be careful) near the slipway to the beach

FREE & OPEN TO ALL Complete Beginners – Experienced Artists Children under 12 to be accompanied by an adult

More Info: gwendraethartslab@gmail.com or 07818 036 434

And remember to post and share your images if you want on Instagram and twitter and Facebook and tag with #beachheritage and #gwendraethartslab @gwendraethartslab

Have fun and Enjoy, take care and be safe, Roz, Sian and Lindsey