Session 9- The Beach!

Yesterday's art challenge chosen by Elsa Lish was The Beach! We had more artists than ever with 4 new scribblers-Ana, Daniel, Jainie and me old mate Martin. I was having technical trouble with freezing of images and bad sound which might have something to do with spilling water all over my iPad before the session. But we had a good laugh anyway and produced a dazzling range of great images. Next time our subject is The Circus chosen by Alan.

Ana from the oil painting class that Anne, Alan and I attend joined us for the first time and produced this beautiful watercolour! An impressive start!

Anne Alderson made these gorgeous watercolour copies of two oil painting by the great Spanish artist Joaquin Sorolla.

Jainie Cowham and Daniel Houlle produced these crazy watercolours! Is the alien on an earth beach or a different planet? Only Jainie knows!

Dan Lish made this moody, magnificent and mysterious giant on the beach. I wonder if he knows Elsa's giant mermaid?

here's Elsa's fabulous sleeping lady on a beach. She's obviously got the Lish art talent gene! Great image, great colour and perfect composition.

Alan Bartlett has produced a gang of vibrant figures taken from Victorian photographs of happy holiday makers at the seaside.

Julia Xandru needed a little extra time but I'm not pointing any fingers cos so did I! the relates are magnificent!
I asked her if she wanted to say anything about these images and got a two word reply- The Med! So let me elaborate
in pretentious art blurb speak-
These vibrant images capture the intrinsic duality between the cartesian dualism of the land and the sea exploring the concomitant dichotomy of spiritual essence contained and contrasted therein.
How's that for art bollocks?

Annalis Renee did a three in one image on the left during the session and sent me three other studies from Cornwall that she'd done earlier. They're brilliant. That water has so much movement. stunning!

Martin Ansell joining us for the first time and claiming no skill proved himself wrong with a joyful group of sunbathers one of whom looks suspiciously like me!

Marina Renee-Cemmick's 4 semi-abstract beach scenes use a fabulous combination of colours to great but simple effect. Love 'em!

And finally my own effort- a bunch of Punch and Judy characters taken from various old photographs.