S.O.F.A. member Sue Sareen has an article on “Painting cats” due to come out in the October edition of the art magazine “Leisure Painter”. Sue’s article emphasises and discusses the importance of continuously sketching and painting cats from life and the different mediums one could use to do this. She also talks about her method … More Look out for Painting Cats in October Issue of Leisure Painter
France Bauduin, one of our members, has won the recent Strathmore Wonders of Winter Art Competition run by Jacksons Art Supplies for her painting ‘Cat-ching Snowballs’. Congratulations France! ‘Colour Pencils drawing on 500 SERIES Charcoal, Blue Gray, 64lb of my cat Laila, then nine months old discovering how fun snow can be. The picture was … More Wonders of Winter Art
S.O.F.A. member Sara Butt shares her love of working in acrylics. In the early years of studying art and experimenting with mediums from oil, water colour, pastel to coloured inks, it didn’t take long to find my soul mate acrylic, I find it works for me, very forgiving and with a good quality pigment paint … More Working with Acrylics
S.O.F.A. member France Bauduin shares her tips on photographing pets. In my previous article, I explained how you could create original compositions from your own photos. Here, I would like to give you a few tips to help you take great action shots of your pet. 1) Choose the right camera Mine is small and … More Pet Photography Tips
Ella Goodwin S.O.F.A. associate member is taking part in a local exhibition in Wymondham, just outside Norwich. It’s presented by printmaker Amelia Bowman and Ella will be exhibiting a large showcase of her illustration in what is a lovely setting at Wymondham Arts Centre. The Private View is on the 15th April – 6-8.30. All … More Ella Goodwin exhibiting in Wymondham
S.O.F.A. member Tamsin Lord shares her love of gouache. The medium of choice for my feline art is Designers’ Gouache, which is a range of opaque water colours. They are so called because they were developed for use by designers, illustrators and commercial artists to create crisp, vibrant visuals and illustrations in solid colour. I … More Getting to Grips with Gouache
S.O.F.A. member France Bauduin shares her tips on compositions from your photos. I have been drawing cats using colour pencils for more than 12 years but I only joined the UKCPS recently and have yet to participate in one of their annual exhibitions. One of the rules of the UKCPS is that we need to … More Creating Original Compositions From Your Photos
S.O.F.A. member Denise Laurent wants to encourage artists to give water mixable oils a try. Here are her recommendations for a starter kit. Over the years I’ve met many artists who’ve wanted to try painting in oils but they’ve been put off by the down side of oil painting, the need for solvents like turps … More Give Water Soluble Oils A Try
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