Maryhill Art Group

The flow of water moving along the river, the curving lines of gliding birds, patterns in rocks - Maryhill art group

The flow of water moving along the river, the curving lines of gliding birds, patterns in rocks – Maryhill art group

Inspired by textures and the rhythms of lines and spaces in nature, we started with some imaginative marks responding to these themes, before drawing from some natural objects. Ink and a variety of brushes came in handy to explore those textures as well as experiment… Read More »The flow of water moving along the river, the curving lines of gliding birds, patterns in rocks – Maryhill art group

Floating stones and flying paper

Floating stones and flying paper

We continued some of the work from the previous session, this time concentrating on stones and pebbles, looking at their shapes and being led by their character to finding different ways to draw them. Cutting and sticking or tearing, we used various papers to make… Read More »Floating stones and flying paper

The world of natural objects - shell, stone and wood

The world of natural objects – shell, stone and wood

Oil pastels were ideal to use to draw the textures of stones and wood from our collection of natural objects picked up from beaches, forests and mountains over the years! Looking into the intricate surface textures to find inspiration, we started working from one or… Read More »The world of natural objects – shell, stone and wood

Drawing studio objects - with some funny faces too ?

Drawing studio objects – with some funny faces too ?

We used a few different approaches to draw some studio objects like rollers or palette knives, such as drawing round the object, or drawing holding two pens at once, and some sketching too. Yellow, beige, red, black and green coloured sugar papers with paint pens… Read More »Drawing studio objects – with some funny faces too ?

Imagining Autumn

Imagining Autumn

After last time at Maryhiill Art Group where we worked individually drawing from leaves and autumn shapes, this time we went straight on to a large piece together. About four metres wide, it was looking like quite a challenge to work in just over an… Read More »Imagining Autumn

Autumn leaves, apples, word art and freedom to explore

Autumn leaves, apples, word art and freedom to explore

Inspired by the Kelvin River area and leaves collected nearby, as well as it being national poetry day, we began with some doodling and writing words in different colours, finding inspiration from our experience and finding ways to bring writing and drawing together. We used… Read More »Autumn leaves, apples, word art and freedom to explore

Patterns, colours and lines as leaves fall and moon glows..

The combinations of deep hued colours, from crimson to viridian green, and textures was really enjoyable to look at. We also read some short Haiku poems too about the autumn leaves and moon.

Still life drawing with a Cubist feel

Using oil pastels at Maryhill Art Group we worked from a setup of studio objects including tripod, paint tubes, brushes and water jugs. We looked at artists Picasso and Heron. Their works encouraged us to feel free to block in areas of colour and use… Read More »Still life drawing with a Cubist feel

Maryhill Art Group

Developing abstracts with ink and collage – Maryhill Art Group

We began on some small drawings from shapes in the buildings and garden area. Then had some fun (and a good few splashes) exploring with mixed media with ink, graphite and collage on larger sheets of cartridge paper..