About us
A friendly group for practising artists at every stage of their creative journey. We are working in the visual arts, particularly painting, and welcome beginners as well as more experienced practitioners.
We are each developing a thoughtful, explorative individual art practice and enjoy sharing and discussion with others. We provide a positive, supportive, and fun community, helping each other develop our individual styles.
For us, devoting time, an inquiring mind, and a desire to express something of ourselves, is more important than realism.
Our events are community-led by artists who have experienced the creative process. Our activities include:
- Discussion evenings: We research a topic in advance, then get together to discuss what we've learnt and how it applies to our practice.
- Virtual art days: Participants commit to a day of creativity. We start with a 30 min Zoom call sharing individual objectives for the day. We share midday results over lunch. At the end of the day we meet again to discuss how we got on, show results and share positive feedback and constructive suggestions.
- Visiting art exhibitions: We look round the exhibition then meet in a cafe afterwards to discuss what we've seen
- Film evenings: We gather to watch a film with an art or artist theme and then meet up afterwards to discuss what we've seen
- Catch up gatherings:
Get-togethers and socials where friends and family are also invited. These events will be clearly marked in the write up as ‘social’.
The group will always run on a not-for-profit basis. I'll ask regular attendees for occasional donations to share costs.
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Unity in Painting
Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel, College Green Bristol England BS1 5TA United Kingdom, Bristol, GBhttps://finearttutorials.com/guide/unity-in-art/
Unity in art refers to how the different elements within a painting work together to create a cohesive whole. This unity plays an important role in forming visually pleasing works of art that draw viewers into their scene.
We will discuss unity in art, exploring the visual elements of unity such as line, colour, texture, shape, form and space, and also look at how other design principles such as balance, pattern and variety overlap with unity.
In preparation please watch the tutorial. The session will be a discussion based around images that you bring.
Please bring images of your own, or other artists artwork, that highlight a couple of the listed elements that create unity.
Please also bring an image of a successful artwork that you think shows minimal use of the principles of unity. Just how important is unity?3 attendees
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