Belper Art Group

Picture Gallery

This page contains a range of pictures as typically produced on one night by anybody in the group. These pictures therefore do not represent what gets framed, hung and possibly sold. Remember all of these have taken less than two hours to produce in a more experimental environment.

Occasionally we do something different and here we painted individual tiles from prints without looking at each others work. Once they were all painted we put them together to form a complete picture on the wall. Each tile was about the size of an A4 sheet and despite the differences in style and detail the overall picture is interesting.

One of the occasional evenings we all enjoy is copying the old masters. Each of us takes a picture and a sheet of paper, we pin the paper onto the wall and we start to paint a copy of the original. The outcome is always interesting some of the pictures are remarkably close copies, although often without the detail but some are very different. Because we have only two hours it is always a very good way to make you get on with the picture. The two pictures above result from one such evening

Again a challenge paint in any medium a rabbit, photographs were provided, but this time make sure to do it in an arty way. Use lost lines, hard lines, let the paint run and form cauliflowers. Don't pre-mix the colours let the water do it on the paper - for someone like me this is the ultimate challenge I always fail. The pictures also tell the story of someone who does not know a brush from a pencil! But it was great fun and I hope we all learnt something.

These four pictures were taken a couple of weeks ago at a sketching evening when we were all supposed to be drawing old boots. Surprisingly they are quite interesting to draw because they mix hard and soft lines, reflections and deep darks. Much more of a challenge than you would think. Can you spot the odd drawing out?

At a recent meeting we all painted away for just under two hours. At the end of the allotted time we photographed some of the pictures and here they are. We were supposedly painting sunsets but as usual the results were mixed in both content and quality. Please forgive the poor photographs but a hand held mobile phone is not a good camera!

As ever apologies to everybody for my photography, the colour rendering and the high compression ratios required to ensure downloads don't take too long. The results are acceptable but not great sorry. We all sell some of our pictures and a few of do commissions. If you wish to see the real pictures contact us or come along one Thursday and have a look.
Frank Smith

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