CHARCOAL STUDIES WTH KIM PRAGNELL!

I recently went on another Silton Art Group workshop with Kim Pragnell. This time it was black and white studies, using charcoal.  He had brought in some of his brilliant work, including the boat artwork shown above (centre right).

He had put up two large still life sets, with a variety of objects, man-made and organic, for us to work on. We looked carefully at the shadows and emphasised the lights and darks.  The results were vey impressive with everyone having a go at each still life.  Kim can be seen above going through and commenting on everybody's artwork.  My contribution is seen above at the top of the bottom left photograph...

EXCELLENT SEASCAPE TUTITION!

Last Wednesday, the tutor at the Silton Art Group's workshop was Kim Pragnell, and the subject was seascapes.  He is an expert on the subject having painted them for over 40 years!  As he says -  'Painting seascapes is both challenging and rewarding, one of the most highly skilled genres of art. I have spent many years studying the sea, observing and experiencing the drama, recreating the energy on canvas and paper.'

We all started with underpainting in red, before being guided and helped to produce our own seascapes, and found it was not as easy as Kim made it look!  He demonstrated by producing a picture -see  above top right and bottom right below - which he has given to the group to auction.  I certainly wouldn't mind owning it!

Each of us produced two paintings during the workshop, and the results were impressive for a day's work. A selection are pictured above.  I was pleased with my efforts - see the two bottom paintings in the photograph above (middle right).  I found it exciting and now I have been giving some useful hints and shown how an expert tackles it, it is a subject to return to...