September 2023 Did you notice it? The summer! What a dismal time it’s been weather wise.  Hope you’ve all made the most of the recent good spell Thank goodness we had a decent day for our trip to Patchings back in July. Don’t know about the rest of you but I thought there was less […]

On Thursday 8th June we had John Maule-Finch demonstrate for us. The photograph he worked from appeared rather flat and uninspiring to most but as he applied his washes and deep shadows the painting became alive. Here’s the final work which John has now  completed and shared with us.   Tonight, 20th June, the Monday […]

  June Newsletter 2023 I can’t take it in that it’s almost half way through this year, I’ve only just written the last newsletter! As you know the main event of WSA’s summer is our day out at Patchings Art Festival, Saturday 15th July. This year the festival is only on for 3 days and, […]

Our Spring newsletter went out to members a couple of weeks ago, hope everyone received it. In it was a mention of our invitation to have a one day exhibition at the Walsall Transport Museum on Sunday 21st May this year.  It is an open day for the museum with a free bus service from […]

NOVEMBER 2022 A very interesting and informative demonstration by Mark Lippett for our last meeting of the year. Mark’s photograph showed an abandoned caravan on a very decayed, old industrial site. An image many wouldn’t find very inspiring, but Mark could see the potential of a good painting.     He wasn’t wrong. Mark has […]

The well known local artist, Carole Baker, demonstrated Adventures in Acrylics at our September meeting. I was unable to be there but I’ve had good reports about the evening.  Carole has sent this message and photographs of the unfinished and finished work.   I have managed to complete the painting I started with you at […]

In June we welcomed Anna Stellinga as our demonstration artist Anna didn’t demonstrate as such, but she did bring in a lot of work and ideas books  which she talked about and passed around all evening. They were very interesting. She explained her works, talked about what inspires her and also how she gets over […]

Apologies for being a bit tardy writing about last month’s demonstration, I’ve been too busy painting.   In April Phil Biggs travelled all the way from Lincolnshire to demonstrate his watercolour technique. Phil, a self-taught artist, re-created a Lake District landscape which he had painted many times using a limited palette of seven Winsor and […]