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
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:
Using Aluminium Foil that you mould to your own face
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.
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!
And remember to post and share your photos if you want on instagram and twitter and Facebook and tag with #GALSmyhome and #gwendraethartslab @gwendraethartslab
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
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
Join us this Saturday 12th September 2020 with our Associate Documentary Photography Ray Hobbs for ‘Mindful Photography’ – interested? email us at gwendraethartslab@gmail.com
If you can’t make it then you can follow you own ‘Mindful Photography session’ check out Ray’s presentation here.
Fantastic News – We are our continuing with our famous Sketchbook walks!
Our latest one is at: Mynydd Llangyndeyrn
When: Saturday 1st August 2020
Time: 10.30am – 11.30am
Location: Mynydd Llangyndeyrn Kidwelly SA17 5DT
We look forward to seeing you!
We’ll meet in the large lay-by near to the the bus shelter and post box, at the cross-roads on the common (Carn Canol).
If you are coming from the Carmarthen direction on the B4306: go up through the village of Crwbin and onto the common (across a cattle grid after the last houses). You will see the bus shelter on your right, and can turn right at the cross roads just after it, and park in a large layby there.
If you are coming from the Pontyberem (Llanelli) direction on the B4306: go through the village of Bancffosfelen and onto the common (across a cattle grid after some houses). You will see the bus shelter on your left, and can turn left at the cross roads just before it, and park in a large lay-by there.
It can be fairly exposed, and can be wet underfoot – its sensible to bring waterproof shoes and a jacket.
They are still FREE – and art MATERIALS are SUPPLIED
Please feel free to bring our own sketchbook pencils/pens/watercolours/crayons etc…
Children under 14 must to be accompanied by an adult
**Social distancing rules must be adhered too throughout the session**
Would you like to join us? Then email us at: gwendraethartslab@gmail.com