Session 8- Good Morning!

Yesterday's art challenge was to draw or paint something on the theme of Good Morning! As usual from this talented bunch there was a glorious colourful range of interpretation with the recurring appearance of cockerels and cats! This subject was David Cemmick's choice and next Sunday Elsa Lish has chosen for our theme- The Beach. Come on in! The water's lovely!

Anna Lindenburger painted our first pussy enjoying a cup of tea in the golden morning sun.
Or it could be coffee or something stronger to judge by his expression! Your colours are very evocative of sunshine, Anna.
Beautiful!

Alan ignored today's theme and plowed his own furrow! He's such rebel! Producing some vibrant figures and a magnificently moustachioed gentleman. Fab colours as usual from Alan- the master of colour!

Anne Alderson shows off her versatility here with a beautiful watercolour sunrise and a cartoon pussy- Falstaff's cat enjoying his first cuppa of the day!

David Cemmick really went to town on his chosen subject producing not only two versions of his crowing cockerel and a smiling young boy but he also filmed the colouring process on the larger bird.

Julia Xandru once again blasts the screen with her vibrant colours. here are two variations on the theme,
one with the message "Good Morning!" and one with a winged clock! the waitress Goddess is serving up all sorts of fruity goodies and coffee for breakfast! YUM!

And finally my humble offering of Good Morning from two differing points of view accompanied by the final cockerel of the session! The yellow was su[posed to look like a loud cock crow but it looks a bit like he's being sick. Oh well!
See you next time on the beach! Cheers! Paul xxx

Session 7- Musical Instruments

Sunday's session was on a theme chosen by Julia Xandru- Musical Instruments to be interpreted in any way at all and sketched in one hour. Some people like to work on their drawings afterwards or do extra ones on the theme and that's OK as long as they do the main thing in one hour. So, once again we had a lovely mix of ages and nationalities from Dan Lish's daughter Elsa (8) to Alan Bartlett (ahem, cough! older than that!) all having fun sketching and chatting on Zoom until I called time when we all showed what we'd done. I'm always surprised at what can be accomplished in an hour!
Here are the results!

P.S. Next Wednesday's theme, chosen by David is "Good Morning!"

Anna Lindenburger couldn't join us for the session from Uzbekistan but later sent me this fabulous drawing of cats playing the harp. I bet it didn't sound good! 

Anne Alderson went totally to town on the theme referencing the classic artists- Renoir, Manet and Caravaggio. I love the flute player. beautiful work!

Definitely going from the sublime to the ridiculous with Dan Lish's strange amalgamation of musicians and bizarre instruments. I can almost here them! Fab!

My brother David Cemmick produced three stunning images of ethnic musicians all in biro which I find quite amazing. The middle one was darkened up a bit later which, I think gives it a bit more punch. I particularly love the hands on the right. Stunning stuff!

And another big contast for Elsa Lish's utterly charming image of a fairy on a branch playing the flute.
She seems to be high up in the clouds and perfectly content. The composition is lovely too.

Julia Xandru, who chose the subject had gone all psychedelic with her orchestra and in contrast we have a sedate woman calmly listening to her old fashioned gramophone. She drew these during the session and added colour on her mobile later.
Jools has a way with colour. Love it!

Annalisa has chosen as inspiration a photograph by the surrealist painter and photographer Man Ray
and produced two subtle pencil drawings based around the cello. Excellent!

Alan Bartlett's influence is from Flamenco dancers accompanied by a cellist in this striking composition in oil pastel (I think).

My contribution is taken from two old photos- one of a one-man-band and the other of a strange instrument made from a skull and some long horns! I looked very devilish so I added some dancing demons to the mix!

Marin Renee-Cemmick's fabulous, vibrant composition depicts the body as a musical instrument overlaying figures form dance choreography. She was trying to find the lyricism and rhythms to the form. I think that's bloody brilliant!

The gang of nutters!

Session 6- Moulin Rouge

Wednesday's sketch club's theme chosen by Anne Alderson was The Moulin Rouge which resulted in lots of vibrantly colourful images largely influenced by the artist most closely associated with the place- Toulouse Lautrec! His work has always inspired me and it seems to have inspired my fellow scribblers to great heights of colour and skill. Hope you like them! Ooh-la-laaaaaah!

Anne Alderson managed to produce three fabulous images based on some of Lautrec's studies of his friends.
This was a great subject, Anne!

Alan Bartlett made 4 images! although he admitted to starting an hour early. But when you're inspired you have to get on with it while the muse is on you! Sorry that I reduced the size of the middle two, Alan but your photographs were bit blurry. Alan's use of colour always amazes me and this lot are no exception. Tres bon!

Anna Lindenberger over in Uzbekistan drew this fabulous trapeze girl! This reminds me of that great film "Wings of Desire". 

Meanwhile, in sunny Dorset Annalisa Renee painted tis lovely piece again based on one of Lautrec's paintings.
The figures are great and I particularly like the sketched-in guy on the right. It really gives the group depth, dunnit!

Jools Xandru seems to also have a wonderful way with colour. These two fairly ZING out!
Stunning work! 

My niece Mimi Renee-Cemmick produced this gorgeous pencil drawing of the man himself
before having to cut the hour short to take another Zoom call. Zoom is proving a blessing in these isolated situations, innit!

And finally my own attempt at capturing Toulouse in action painting the Moulin Rouge's renowned Can-Can dancers but he seems to have got a little too close for comfort. And that's yer lot! Mon dieu! Ces artistes sont fabuleux! 

Session 5- Mermaid

Sunday afternoon's art challenge was to draw a mermaid in an hour using whatever medium you wanted. We had some very welcome newbies this time and we had a lot of fun with our wide variety of interpretations of the finny folk! Here are the results!

Renowned artist and my ex-studio mate Dan Lish joined the merry gang with his two daughters Elsa (8) and Abigail (10).
Here's Dan's beautiful and mysterious creature! I think she's either shy or waiting for some passing dumb sailors!

Elsa Lish was very ambitious and made 2 drawings! This one is  probably my favourite out of all of them
as it shows a happy, giant mermaid! Shades of Beryl Cook here methinks! Brilliant.

Here's Elsa's second mermaid. Is she leaping out of the sea or lying on top of it? And is she a giant or a normal size mermaid? Only the artist  knows!

Abigail's mermaid has to win the prize for the cutest! And I love her  gorgeous crimson hair! Superb!

Another of our newbies is my oil painting classmate Alan Bartlett with an amazing oil painting with added gold leaf!
Are there three mermaids or two? I can see three! Fab!

Angelica Pownall produced a delicate pencil study which is the first of two influenced by Victorian painter (and one of my favourites) John William Waterhouse. Beautiful shading, Angelica!

Th first of Paul Cemmick(that's me)'s  two watercolour mermaids. This one was a last ten minute rushed attempt but I prefer it to the other one.
Sometimes the quick ones can be the best. This is watercolour on an old snap of canvas.

Julia Xanru (from Rumania but living in Palma) has produced two startlingly colourful and strange images! This one seems to be a Mexican death's head mermaid with octopus hair and a large bottle of something deadly, no doubt, with another mermaid playing music with a large beard! But what does it all mean? Ask the artist! Fabulous! 

Anne Alderson who's been contributing since the start but this was the first time she joined us on Zoom which makes a big difference. Anne's lovely pencil and crayon drawing is the other drawing based on a famous Waterhouse painting of a mermaid. Nice one, Anne!

Julia Xandru also produced two images. This one seems to be very Japanese again with stunningly vibrant colours. Wow!

My second one is a watercolour underwater scene with a blonde mermaid amongst some  ancient statuary for some unknown reason. Ask the artist. Oh, that's me

And last but not least from Anna Lindenburger over there in Uzbekistan is possibly the scariest mermaid of them all!
That tail looks deadly! I wouldn't want to meet her down the deepens of the swimming pool!
Anna chose this sessions top of Mermaids which turned out to be be very inspiring. Thanks Blondie!
The next subject on Wednesday as chosen by Anne Alderson will be The Moulin Rouge! See ya there, gang!
Paul
xxx

We have a late addition from regular sketcher Pearl Bates who couldn't make the session itself but has sent me this lovely drawing on a mermaid theme that she did some time ago. it's too good not to include! 

Session 4- Nature!

Session 4 was on Wednesday afternoon (depending on where in the world we were!) and the theme chosen by Angelica was "Nature"! The results ranged from flowers and trees to animals. birds and a muck monster emerging from the slime! We welcomed yet another new scribbler- Rosie Lee from up in Scotland. Another funs session using the app Zoom which seemed to work fine except for Jools who couldn't manage to get on it for some reason but she outdid herself by carrying on anyway and doing THREE paintings! The next theme is "Mermaids" chosen by Anna.

Angelica Pownall's lovely shapes of nature.

Anna Lindenberger's goat being managed by a tree!

Annalisa's beautiful swan.

Anne Alderson's watercolour of trees.

David Cemmick decided to sculpt a strange creature emerging from the slime and ooze of his warped imagination!

Jools Xandru got all enthusiastic and did three gorgeous, vibrant images.

Paul Cemmick (me) did two contrasting styles of elephant. One straight and one crossed with an octopus!

Marina Renee-Cemmick's fabulous composition of wolves and bears (I think).

Peral Bates did a colouring-in image with another lovely graphic embellishment.

 Rosie Lee gave us this great charcoal drawing of a tree in her garden.

Sue Wadsworth's second tribute to Gaugin with great colours.

The sketch gang minus David and Jools.