Category: watercolour

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News Flash

More successes for Frome Valley Art Group, this time to Rebecca Rees, and Sylvia Dyer.

Recently Rebecca won the Drawing /Illustrations prize at the Pittville Park Cheltenham Plein Air art Competition to take home £100, which she tells us she’s going to spend on more art supplies. Well done, Bex.

Painting as Kit Domino, Sylvia received news that her recent painting “English Summer’s Day” is featured in the November issue of Landscape magazine.

Well done and congratulations to you both. Well deserved, as I’m sure you’ll agree.

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News Flash

Frome Valley Art Group members are certainly on a roll this month with another of our group receiving hearty congratulations. This time, it’s Dave Betty, who recently succeeded in getting into the top 200 of the International Watercolour Masters Competition with one of two entries. This is a fantastic achievement considering there were close to 3000 entries from all around the world, many from professional artists so the competition was fierce. Well done, Dave.

Frome Valley Art Group rocks!

“It’s Cold Out There”
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Paul Weaver’s Demo in Line & Wash

On 10th Februrary we were treated to an informative and brilliant demo of line & wash by long-standing friend and regular demonstrator at our art group: PAUL WEAVER.

Paul started this two-hour session by showing us how to sketch figures, explaining how the proportions of body length of a person is equal to 7x the length of the head, the head always being drawn as an oval, never a circle. Showing how the torso, arms and legs are all cylinders (using a kitchen roll tube as an example), he quickly added a continuous … read full story.

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February’s Artist of the Month

Welcome to our second Artist of the Month. Dave Betty is one of Winterbourne Art Group’s more experienced painters working in watercolours. He enjoys visiting art exhibitions and participating in workshops held by professional artists both in the UK and aboard. He is a regular exhibitor at our annual art exhibition, this year held over the weekend of 13th/14th May. In 2022, one of his watercolour paintings was highly commended and exhibited at the SAA Artist of the Year Awards. Read on