Sarah Wetherall ran another successful and happy 2 hour workshop on Friday 30th September - the second in a programme that will be run monthly. Many of the group were new to using watercolours and with Sarah’s inspired teaching everyone got stuck in with little hesitation.

She suggested we choose a painting from one of the books available and then take a small section and concentrate on this - to experiment with brush strokes and wetness and depth of colour. It meant that we could focus on the process rather than trying to copy the artwork. By doing this we learnt so much about how watercolour reacts on paper and what reactions we particularly liked and would want to use in any future paintings.

Look out for Sarah’s next class later this month.

Sarah’s work can we seen at www.clockworkstudios.co.uk

On Friday 22nd July 11, a group attended this club launch workshop. Sarah Wetherall was our tutor - a local artist, who is going to run the Arts Club on a regular basis offering a variety of taster 2 hour workshops to introduce different creative processes.

This time it was - Cyanotype - a contact photographic print made with paper impregnated with a light sensitive chemical and using UV as the developing agent. Simply, you place an object - we used foliage picked from the Bell House garden - onto the light sensitive paper, expose it to UV light and this makes a beautiful white and blue print.

As it turned out, there was a group of 11 ladies - and as the class title stated - all over 60!. Although understanding why the limit had been made - the ladies did find the description difficult to accept. But this is not the place for that discussion!

Everyone was able to follow Sarah’s lead - there was only one moment of ‘stress’ during the whole workshop - the need to “QUICKLY place your design onto the impregnated paper and then cover with Perspex.” Once successfully completed - and everyone did - we all returned to a very zen state of creativity.

Look out for the next Creative Art Club workshop in September.

Sarah’s work can we seen at www.clockworkstudios.co.uk

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