Spotlight - Francis Vallejo's Inspiration Blog

This Spotlight we have a blog where illustrator Francis Vallejo posts pictures, almost all figurative and preliminary works, that inspire him. There's a note for each post telling you who created the artworks, and when that person lived.

Here's the link: http://francisvallejoinspiration.blogspot.co.uk/

If you know any great art websites or articles, why not share them here? Send your suggestions to samsketches@yahoo.co.uk - please note that this isn't for self-promotion!

Portrait Workshop cancelled!

Unfortunately, due to a lack of interest, the 13th Summer School Portrait Workshop has been cancelled. Chris Bean will be in touch with anyone who has signed up, to see if they'd like to transfer to the Life Drawing Workshop.

If you've signed up but don't hear anything, please contact Chris Bean on 01584 841668.

Photos from Monnington Court

As I was unable to make it to Monnington Court today, Tom Crowe kindly took some photos. Thanks, Tom!

Angela Connor gave a talk which included a 15 minute video of her various sculptures, and explained the thoughts and process behind them.

Next month there's no evening meeting, as we have our Summer Exhibition!

2012 Summer Exhibition, Workshops and a Lunch!

Quite a bit to cover here -

Firstly, the forms for our 2012 Summer Exhibition. You should have received these along with the most recent Newsletter, but in case you didn't or you need another copy, you can find them on the Membership and Exhibition Forms page.

Also on that page you can find forms for two upcoming workshops.

On 12th September there's a watercolour workshop with John Jarvis, and on 3rd November there's a portrait workshop with John Davenport.

Lastly, there's our Annual Lunch, at the Riverside Inn and Restaurant, Aymestrey. The form, also on the same page, includes the complete menu.

Life drawing group's summer plein air page update

There's been an update to the life drawing group's summer plein air visits page -

13th July - Croft Castle, the same as last week, given the washout then!
20th July - Tenbury Wells.
27th July - Bryn Caled

You can find the complete page on the What's On section at the top of the blog, or you can click here.

Spotlight - TED Talk, Ursus Wehrli Tidies Up Art

Do you ever feel your pictures are lacking a sense of order? Maybe this will help. Note: this isn't meant to be taken seriously! The description from the site reads:

"Ursus Wehrli shares his vision for a cleaner, more organized, tidier form of art -- by deconstructing the paintings of modern masters into their component pieces, sorted by color and size.

Comedian and cabaret artist Ursus Wehrli is on a crusade to tidy up art."

Here's the link: http://www.ted.com/talks/ursus_wehrli_tidies_up_art.html

If you know any great art websites or articles, why not share them here? Send your suggestions to samsketches@yahoo.co.uk - please note that this isn't for self-promotion!