This week’s poems were three evocative poems about nature , and human interaction with the natural world – The Lake Isle of Inisfree by WB Yeats, Adlestrop by Edward Thomas and The Way Through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling. Click here for poems. These varied and atmospheric paintings really captured the spirit of each poem.Continue reading “Painting the poem … part three”
Monthly Archives: June 2020
Patterned birds!
This week’s challenge – set by Ruth Bitowski – was to create patterned birds using black and white paper and pens. Not that that was stopping the use of colours… art has no boundaries, after all! Top l Trish, bottom left Chrissie and Rachel, bottom right,
Abstract art
Take a copy of Henri Rousseau’s La Chasse au Lion, remove the colour, box or circle a section of the monochrome version; and paint that how you want it to be. Et voila! These are the first two results of that challenge posed by Sue King… Mavis’s lion (left) and Rachel’s foliage, with the originalContinue reading “Abstract art”
Origami magic!
This was a first for the Still Lifers and a tricky task in lockdown with four sheets of instructions from ace origami-ist Hannah Bitowski – and a packet of paper. The aim was to make a Magic Wheel. As usual we rose to the challenge … Top row- Trish, left middle and bottom- Jane, yellowContinue reading “Origami magic!”