Autumn colours
Wednesday’s workshop focused on depicting autumn and its wonderful colours.
Angus showed the group lots of different ways that artists have represented autumn. As well as botanical paintings capturing the minute details of leaves, slodges of colour can be used to represent leaves on trees.Some artists use the leaves themselves to create beautiful collages of animals. The complex designs were astonishing and patience was clearly required to create them.
However, even more patience was needed for the next set of works. Artists cut shapes out of the leaf itself, creating intricate artworks.
And finally, Angus showed everyone an easy way to paint birch trees. Using just a few dabs of white and black paint, he demonstrated how to drag the paint across the paper, creating the look of bark, with black paint used to give the impression of branches. Green and yellow leaves can be dabbed in later.
Armed with a forest of leaves, everyone set off to get stuck in. Collage was popular, with clear pockets helping to press the leaves down onto brightly painted backgrounds. Printing the leaves also created pretty lace-like images, showing the thin veins of the various leaves.
Spey Art Group 
November 6, 2015 at 9:20 am
Really interesting and enjoyable session. So lovely to see all the ways beautiful natural objects can be used so creatively. Thank you Angus,