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What's On 2021
Discover the events Leicester Sketch Club has to offer and what our members are up to. |
LEICESTER SKETCH CLUB – PROGRAMME 2021
Online chats (Members only. Free)
(2nd Wednesday of the month at 2.00 pm and 4th Wednesday of the month at 7.30 pm.)
** These have been suspended as the weather is improving, but we may set up chats for specific topics if people are interested.
April meeting
Thursday 15th April, 7 pm (please note the change of day!!)
Our April meeting is to be an appraisal by Peter Clayton and is on Thursday 15th April at 7 pm.
Please send a clear image of your artwork for Peter to Viv Blackburn at:
vivien.blackburn@gmail.com by Thursday 8th April
This will give time for Viv to collate the images and let Peter see them in advance of the evening.
The usual zoom link will be open from 6.45pm (see email or members' page for details).
*Please remember to mute your microphones*
Upcoming events
June 2nd, via zoom, at 7pm. Tony O'Dwyer - members' talk - 'An artist and his work from the 1960's to the present.’
July 7th - will be a social IN PERSON at Leicester High School - more details to follow.
August - no meeting
Sept 1st, 7pm, Leicester High School - Wayne Attwood - artist talk
October 6th, 7pm, Leicester High School - Jo Sheppard - Critique
November 3rd, 7pm, Leicester High School - Emma Fitzpatrick - Artist talk about her monoprinting work
2021 online exhibition
We are planning an online exhibition to take place in early Autumn - more details to follow....
PAST EVENTS
March meeting
Wednesday 3rd March 2021, 7pm
Printmaker Sally Hirst was our guest for the March meeting. Sally is an experienced and talented printmaker who will be concentrating on monoprinting which requires simple equipment and no press.
For more details visit her website at https://sallyhirst.co.uk/
See the members' page for a recording of her talk.
February meeting
Wednesday February 3rd 2021, 7pm
A demonstration/talk by Chris Forsey. Chris works in acrylics, watercolour and mixed media. His work focuses on landscape and architectural subjects using texture and expressive techniques. He used acrylics and some ink in this demonstration.
See the members' page for a recording of the demo and the completed painting.
January meeting
At this meeting, Sketch Club members Vanessa Parkinson and Maxine Dodd shared some of their personal techniques.
Maxine Dodd: “My work is inspired by sport, movement and other fleeting moments. Drawings, paintings and combined media, including pen, ink, watercolour and pastels. Subjects include cycling Tour de France, Six Nations rugby and more.' You can read more details on https://maxinedodd.com/about/”
Vanessa Parkinson: “For a couple of decades I have taken part in Tudor re-enactments as Lettys, poor gardener and have built up a lot of knowledge about plants and their uses. During lockdown I kept a record of some of the plants/weeds I grow and used a variety of art techniques to log these. After a few false starts, I finally found a way to display the plant images in the form of “Lockdown Gardener’s Tatter Hat”, which was accepted for the cancelled Leicester Open”
Online chats (Members only. Free)
(2nd Wednesday of the month at 2.00 pm and 4th Wednesday of the month at 7.30 pm.)
** These have been suspended as the weather is improving, but we may set up chats for specific topics if people are interested.
April meeting
Thursday 15th April, 7 pm (please note the change of day!!)
Our April meeting is to be an appraisal by Peter Clayton and is on Thursday 15th April at 7 pm.
Please send a clear image of your artwork for Peter to Viv Blackburn at:
vivien.blackburn@gmail.com by Thursday 8th April
This will give time for Viv to collate the images and let Peter see them in advance of the evening.
The usual zoom link will be open from 6.45pm (see email or members' page for details).
*Please remember to mute your microphones*
Upcoming events
June 2nd, via zoom, at 7pm. Tony O'Dwyer - members' talk - 'An artist and his work from the 1960's to the present.’
July 7th - will be a social IN PERSON at Leicester High School - more details to follow.
August - no meeting
Sept 1st, 7pm, Leicester High School - Wayne Attwood - artist talk
October 6th, 7pm, Leicester High School - Jo Sheppard - Critique
November 3rd, 7pm, Leicester High School - Emma Fitzpatrick - Artist talk about her monoprinting work
2021 online exhibition
We are planning an online exhibition to take place in early Autumn - more details to follow....
PAST EVENTS
March meeting
Wednesday 3rd March 2021, 7pm
Printmaker Sally Hirst was our guest for the March meeting. Sally is an experienced and talented printmaker who will be concentrating on monoprinting which requires simple equipment and no press.
For more details visit her website at https://sallyhirst.co.uk/
See the members' page for a recording of her talk.
February meeting
Wednesday February 3rd 2021, 7pm
A demonstration/talk by Chris Forsey. Chris works in acrylics, watercolour and mixed media. His work focuses on landscape and architectural subjects using texture and expressive techniques. He used acrylics and some ink in this demonstration.
See the members' page for a recording of the demo and the completed painting.
January meeting
At this meeting, Sketch Club members Vanessa Parkinson and Maxine Dodd shared some of their personal techniques.
Maxine Dodd: “My work is inspired by sport, movement and other fleeting moments. Drawings, paintings and combined media, including pen, ink, watercolour and pastels. Subjects include cycling Tour de France, Six Nations rugby and more.' You can read more details on https://maxinedodd.com/about/”
Vanessa Parkinson: “For a couple of decades I have taken part in Tudor re-enactments as Lettys, poor gardener and have built up a lot of knowledge about plants and their uses. During lockdown I kept a record of some of the plants/weeds I grow and used a variety of art techniques to log these. After a few false starts, I finally found a way to display the plant images in the form of “Lockdown Gardener’s Tatter Hat”, which was accepted for the cancelled Leicester Open”