Wednesday 5 December 2012

2013 - 2014 Syllabus

Last updated 19 Dec  2013 (by Ian Hobson 01943 877555)

September 2013
2  MEMBERSHIP & Book Swap - Re-join, order materials & bring art books to swap.
9  WORKSHOP* - Tracey Krupianka - Bring your favourite materials.
16 DEMONSTRATION - Stephen Coates - Watercolour Reflections.
23 DEMONSTRATION - Chris Wormald - Clay Sculpture.
30 PICTURE NIGHT - Pam Bumby & Tom Thomson - Bring your problem (finished or unfinished)  paintings for help & advice.

October 2013
7  ILLUSTRATED TALK - Peter Bradshaw - The Great Pyramid.
14 LIFE CLASS - John Ridyard - Bring paper & pencils or paint etc.
21 LAST EVENING FOR AUTUMN EXHIBITION ENTRIES
21 ILLUSTRATED TALK - John Billingsley - The Luck of the House; traditional protective designs and artefacts.
28 TALK & DEMONSTRATION - Brenda Chappell - Caran d'Ache art products.

November 2013
4  ILLUSTRATED TALK - Steve Drinkall, photographer - Wildlife & Wild Places.
11 DEMONSTRATION - Sue Ford - A Street Scene in Collage.
16 - 17 - MENSTON AUTUMN EXHIBITION
18 ILLUSTRATED TALK - Malcolm Oxley - Titian & Venetian Painting.
25 DEMONSTRATION - Rosemary - Brush Making & Using. Includes a set of brushes for at least one lucky member.

December 2013
2 PASTEL WORKSHOP* - Barry De More - Bring oil or soft pastels, and also pastel paper, if you have some.
9 CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS

January 2014
6 ILLUSTRATED TALK - Jane Lazenby - The Horse in Art Through the Ages.
13 DEMONSTRATION - Mildred Foster - A group of figures in Charcoal & Watercolour.
17 (Friday) Workshop at The Manor House, Ilkley - 1pm - 4pm
20 ILLUSTRATED TALK / DEMO & WORKSHOP - Sue Kershaw - Mosaic Methods & Materials.
25 (Saturday) Workshop at The Manor House, Ilkley - 11am - 1pm
27 COSTUME/STILL LIFE* (with bicycle) - Tom Thomson - Bring your favourite materials.

February 2014
3  DEMO/WORKSHOP* - Kathryn Oubridge - Explorations in Printmaking: the low-tech approach. An introduction to printmaking techniques.  All materials will be provided - so just bring yourselves.
10 WATERCOLOUR WORKSHOP* - John Ridyard - bring own materials.
17 ILLUSTRATED TALK - Janet Pickering - Wood, Paper, Stone: a look at some German Graphic art.
24 FILM NIGHT - David Myers - The Art of the Moving Image 2.

March 2014
3  DEMONSTRATION - Ruth Fettiss - Lino/Woodcut.
8&9 HANDING IN DAYS for Manor House Exhibition
10 ILLUSTRATED TALK - David Alred - The Algarve, Venice, Las Vegas and more.
15 Manor House Exhibition begins
17 DEMONSTRATION - Robert Brindley - Oil Landscape.
24 PICTURE NIGHT - Judith Tomlinson - Bring your problem (finished or unfinished) paintings for help & advice.
31 ILLUSTRATED TALK - Brian Howard - Emily Carr (artist) of British Columbia.

April 2014
7  WORKSHOP* – Bring paints or pastels, BLANK sheet & photo(s) you have NOT painted successfully.
14 LAST EVENING FOR SPRING EXHIBITION ENTRIES
14  DEMONSTRATION - Nick Summerbell - Painting with Chinese Brush.
21  NO MEETING (Easter Holiday)
28 AGM

May 2014
5  NO MEETING (May Bank Holiday)
10-11 - MENSTON SPRING EXHIBITION
12 TALK/WORKSHOP* - Keith Arrowsmith - A Light-hearted History of Drawing & Painting. Plus a portraiture demo & workshop - bring pencils & paper etc.
19 DEMONSTRATION - TV Artist, Granville Danny Clarke - Watercolour Dynamics: landscape composition, fluid skies, impressionist & realism, the green factor solved, & more!
26 NO MEETING (Spring Bank Holiday)

June 2014
1 Manor House Exhibition ends
2 DEMONSTRATION - Iain Will - An Illustrated Talk & Demonstration of Wildlife Painting using Oils on Acrylics.
9 ILLUSTRATED TALK - Valery Shepherd - Eric Ravilious & Edward Bawden, Graphic Artists.
16 ORIGAMI WORKSHOP - Katie Chaplin of Japan Crafts.
23 ILLUSTRATED TALK - Alex Purves - Artists & Their Habitats - Studios: places of work & inspitation - from Rembrandt to present.
30 STILL LIFE - Angela Hammond.  Bring your favourite materials.
July
7  SOCIAL EVENING

September 2014
1 Membership - Re-join, & order materials.

*Members only (workshops)

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If you would like to be included in our next syllabus, beginning 8 September 2014, send an email to ianhobsonuk @ yahoo.com