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Art course 2022 Confidence with colour 12th & 26th March – 10am – 12pm

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For anyone, of any ability, who wants to build upon their colour skills.

A practical course over two Saturday mornings investigating effective colour mixing, colour bias, optical mixing and colour relationships. No more unintentional muddy colours.

Bring any paints and equipment that you want to use, but if possible should include white, two yellows, two reds, two blues. Paper, brushes, palette knife, (if using acrylic), palettes/plates and water jars, will also be necessary.

Additional materials will be supplied to help you achieve. 

Fee £15.00 each session. Pay on the day. Car parking available. Doors open 9.30am.

Mundon Village (Victory) Hall, Main Road, Mundon, Essex CM9 6PB

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Beginnings
    Today's Mundon life drawing with Model Ian Griffiths Life drawing 19/5/23 9.30am Mundon CM9 6PB An untutored drawing session. Good company. Good model. See you there. Thanks to Tim Stoat life model at todays life drawing session Mundon https://www.instagram.com/p/CrQoaWDorON/ Mundon life drawing @dandblifemodelling Mundon life drawing, another very enjoyable session thanks to @dandblifemodelling Town Mayor of Maldon, Andrew Lay yesterday visited exhibition Between friends (a conversation).Artists Jenny Hill and Jenny Newman. Maeldune Heritage Centre, Maldon. #maldonessex ,#art exhibition #visitessex#visitmaldon #linocut #abstractart Viewpoint Deep water, linocut print. Exhibition,Between friends (a conversation). Maeldune Heritage Centre Maldon. Until 2nd July. Open Tuesday to Saturday 11am-4pm.

    Curious? There is story to tell.

    Burnham Art & Rail Community

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    Burnham Art & Rail Community

    The mostly disused station building, (apart from a nice cafe and a part time ticket office), is almost derelict. The windows have been boarded up with chipboard and the peeling paint tells you how long they have been there. It was a sad state of a building and when travelling by rail, is the first impression arriving in Burnham on Crouch, Essex. Beyond the platform and out to the car park and Station Road, are thriving gardens, planted and developed by volunteers who have already made this a more beautiful place.

    The 10th anniversary of the Burnham Art Trail and 125 years of the railway to the town, became a celebratory community art project and refurbishment of the station.
    Young people age 6-18 were asked to put forward a design they would like to see on the boarded windows on the theme of Travel – past, present and future. Winning designs could be painted by the designer or if very young, the painting was done by a volunteer artist.
    I painted this board from a design drawn by a six year old girl. The expressions on the faces were a delight and I was conscious not to change essential elements so it could remain as close as possible to her original idea.
    If you would like to see more images of painted window boards visit http://www.burnhamarttrail.co.uk

    Spring apple blossom – ink – Jenny Hill

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    Spring apple blossom - ink - Jenny Hill

    Spring is here and the promise of a warm weekend this early in March makes it easy to forget how cold it will still be over the next couple of months. In past years there has been freezing blasts of weather just when the apple tree blossoms.
    Ink painting Apple blossom no.2 is in my exhibition ‘Anticipation and Recognition’ at Colchester Library’s Les Livres Gallery, 2nd March – 31st March.
    Online catalogue visit
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    Sprouting poppies – Jenny Hill – Ink

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    Sprouting poppies - Jenny Hill - Ink

    It has been so wet this winter, the wind twisted poppy seed heads stayed whole. In previous years the freezing weather skeletonised the seed heads, leaving open basket structures. This month the soggy plants evolved into their own aerial sprouting seed pot.
    The painting “Sprouting poppies’ is more subdued than my usual expressive use of colour. It could be a reflection of the weeks of rain, or the raw umber in the mix.

    Agapanthus winter seed head – ink – Jenny Hill

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    Agapanthus winter seed head - ink - Jenny Hill

    I had passed this Agapanthus a number of times, noting the yellow and lime green stems and seed heads almost glowing on grey days. I resolved to draw it before the black seeds dropped or the stems pushed over, but it was the forecast of more heavy rain that made me get on with sketching. Drawing in a winter garden for the sake of not missing something sounds dedicated? Fortunately the plant is in a large pot, (a cropped copper water cylinder), just outside my studio window.
    ‘Agapanthus winter seed head’ will be exhibited at Colchester Library Gallery, Les Livres, March 2nd-31st.

    Medlar fruit – ink – Jenny Hill

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    Medlar fruit - ink - Jenny Hill

    Unripe Medlar fruit seen last October at RHS Hyde Hall Garden, Essex. The fruit is usually bletted, softened by rot, before it can be eaten. As I was painting this from a pen sketch I realised the fruit reminded me of something else. I have since discovered Medlar, (Mespilus germanica), was known in medieval times as the ‘dog bottom tree’.
    For more gardening information and recipes visit
    http://www.rhs.org.uk/Gardening/Grow-Your-Own/Recipes/Nigel-Slater-recipes/Articles/Nigel-Slater-On—/Nigel-Slater-on—-medlars
    Painting using acrylic ink and indian ink.

    Field Bird’s Nest fungi – ink – Jenny Hill

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    Field Bird's Nest fungi - ink - Jenny Hill

    Thumbnail size fungi, (depending on the size of your thumb), in wood chip mulch at RHS Hyde Hall Garden, Rettendon, Essex. At first I saw only the silvery empty cups and wondered what they were. Then on closer inspection I could see more but with ‘eggs’ that had not been dispersed. A fungi hunt in autumn led by an expert mycologist opened my eyes to the range of common fungi, but I still wonder how I have not noticed these until this year. Field Bird’s Nest – Cyathus olla.
    I used silver acrylic ink for one thin wash before adding more layers of orange and blue. Silver ink can give a grey tinge but it worked well for this subject giving a subtle metallic sheen.