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Paintings in Kirklands

23/08/2020

Kirklands requested paintings from members of Menston Arts Club and Menston residents to be posted as a cheerful counterpoint to the current Coronavirus pandemic. Members submitted their paintings by email and Kirklands Trustees have now printed them and posted them on the wall in the main hall where, once current restrictions ease, they will be available to view by all comers to the building. A selection are shown here

Jeremy

26/03/2018

Critique
Jeremy Taylor came to our meeting to give a critique of members work. Very constructive evening where everyone benefited by listening to Jeremy's comments.

People's choice May 2018

19/05/2018

Winner of the people's favourite painting award at the May 2018 exhibition was Tom Tompson. The prize was awarded to Tom by the club's President Mrs Anne Wade

Anita Daniel

24/06/2019

Portrait drawing in tonal values. Anita showed us how to draw a portrait in shapes and tone using charcoal. Very interesting and unusual technique of drawing a portrait from a photograph upside down!

Workshop based on Robert Austin’s demonstration

22/09/2019

Workshop based on Robert Austin’s demonstration.
Following on from Robert Austin’s inspirational demonstration we all had a go at creating realistic clouds. We all enjoyed the challenge and produced some interesting paintings. Most did more than one painting and had an enjoyable evening.

Robert Austin demonstration

09/09/2019

Robert Austin gave a very interesting demonstration of the painting of different types of cloud. Wonderful and inspirational, he gave 4 very different quick demonstrations with Blue Peter style ‘here’s one I did earlier’ examples of each painting.

Tony Goldthorpe

30/09/2019

Tony came and gave a demonstration of painting in the Bob Ross style. A very entertaining evening was had by all watching Tony complete not 1, not 2 but 3 paintings in the evening. All different and showing different techniques. Two were painted on black boards, one of poppies that really shone out, the second a breaking wave and seascape, the third was a landscape of mountains and trees. Fantastic. Thoroughly enjoyable evening.