UKCPS 2nd Regional Exhibition

Art and Craft Days

We have a one day course on Monday 1st June -A beginners Guide to Painting with Coloured Pencils - Tutor Janie Pirie Price £70 and a two day course on Mon & Tues 19th & 20th October Drawing Portraits from Photographs - Coloured Pencils Tutor Janie Pirie £140

All workshops include lunch and refreshments.

Art and Craft Days
The Butterfly Art & Craft Studio
Flacks Green
Terling
Essex, CM3 2QS
Tel: 01245 233459
www.artandcraftdays.co.uk

Try Pencils Afternoon!

Easter is nearly here!

Will you suffer from post-Easter depression?
Will you be stressed out because you ate too much chocolate?

Then why not come and ease yourself back to normality with a ....

TRY PENCILS AFTERNOON!

SATURDAY 11TH APRIL at St Chad's Church Hall, Roslyn Road, Irby, Wirral, CH61 3UH
1pm to 4pm, tea/coffee & biscuits provided.  

As usual, I will provide A4 cartridge paper, plus coloured pencils by various manufacturers
for you to try out, and a step-by-step project to work on.  All for the ridiculous cost of £5!

By all means bring your own paper, projects, or pencils - and if you wish to use graphite then
 that is fine also!  Bring a drawing board if you have one.

Please let me know if you are coming (so that I know how many biscuits to buy!)

Best regards
Alan
alanmac48@btinternet.com

UKCPS Annual General Meeting 2014

Please take the time to read the minutes from the 2014 Annual General Meeting of the UKCPS which are ow available on the UKCPS website - find it under Members' Login. There is a lot of important information regarding your society and it is worth keeping up with all the news. Thank you.

South West Society of Botanical Artists

South West Society of Botanical Artists

To all UKCPS artists,
especially those living in the West Country,

Linda Nicholls is organising on behalf of the Society of Botanical Artists, a 3 night visit to the Lake District where they have been invited by Derwent to visit their factory and Pencil Museum, with an optional full day workshop.

This will be in March 2015 (date to be confirmed), staying half board at a 4* hotel with coach travel from Exeter via the M5 and M6. 

The cost will be approximately £280.

If interested please communicate with Linda at this email address:

pelisande@btinternet.com

UKCPS Dales Group Exhibition

The UKCPS Dales Group Debut Exhibition

LAST WEEK OF EXHIBITION

FINISHES FRIDAY 27TH JUNE

The Blue Light Gallery
Little Market Place,
Masham, North Yorshire,
HG4 4DY

The gallery is open Monday to Saturday
from 10:00am - 15:00pm

Lesley Sharman UKCPS; Amy Horton UKCPS; Tony Brown; Maureen Oates; Niki Firmin

UKCPS Dales Local Group

UKCPS Dales Local Group are holding a joint exhibition at the Blue Light Gallery, Little Market Place, Masham, North Yorkshire, HG4 4DY, from Saturday 31st May to Friday 27th June, 2014. The members exhibiting are Lesley Sharman UKCPS, Amy Horton UKCPS, Tony Brown, Maureen Oates and Niki Firmin.

There will be around 50 CP/mixed media pictures on show and for sale, as well as some "crafty" items they have produced.

South Wales Group

UKCPS Member Steve Evans has set up a new group meeting at his studio in Port Talbot once a month. So far there are 3 members meeting up, including Steve, sharing tips, sharing materials and just feeding off each others' experiences and knowledge, but they would very much love to have others join them. If you are interested in joining them, please email Steve at e-ban@hotmail.co.uk.

If you would like to highlight your own group please don't hesistate to send the blogmaster an email with details. These kind of groups are a wonderful way to work with other artists and expand your knowledge and creativity.

1st Regional UKCPS Members Exhibition

The deadline for the above competition has been extended to the 10th of May 2014.

We hope to see many entries.

Try Pencils - Wirral, UK

If any members are coming north to escape the floods - why not join us at St Chad's Church Hall, Roslin Road, Irby, Wirral, CH61 3UH, on Saturday 22 February for an afternoon of drawing (cp or Graphite!).


1pm to 4pm, cost £5


 Tea/coffee & biscuits and A4 Cartridge paper provided, bring your own pencils or use the available Coloursoft or Faber-Castells. 


Pay on the day, but please let me know if you are coming: alanmac48@btinternet.com


Alan McMahon

Wirral Pencil Group

The Wirral Pencil group are a collection of amateur artists who get together every couple of months or so on a Saturday afternoon as a 'Try Pencils' session open to non-members and friends.   We are looking for a CP artist willing to do either a half day demonstration, or alternatively, a full day workshop, on a Saturday in February.  Numbers would probably be 15 to 20, in a spacious church hall in Irby, Wirral.

As an aside to the above, members may have missed a paragraph in my report to the Society AGM which read:

 

DEMONSTRATORS

One way in which the society can assist both local groups, and also its professional or semi-professional members, is by maintaining a database of those artists willing to provide demonstrations or workshops for local groups, together (if possible) with some indication of fees charged.  Any members willing to give demonstrations or workshops are asked to contact the Local Groups Co-ordinator who will provide a contact form for completion.

Please feel free to contact me about either of the above.

Alan McMahon

localgroups@ukcps.co.uk

Judith Selcuk - Local group & workshops

Judith Selcuk lives in the Evesham area and has sent in this:

From January I will be running a fortnightly Art Club/group in Church Lench, Evesham. Price is just £3 to cover pavilion hire and refreshments. Cake and drink provided.

 

For more details please email me on judithselcukillustrations@gmail.com or 01386 870984

 

In addition ------

 

I specialise in animal portraits especially equine and canine. I offer private one to one lessons, small group lessons and day workshops. Private lessons are £20 an hour one to one.

 

Small groups are up to 4 people at a time for £18 per person per hour with refreshments included.

 

Day courses include lunch either in front of the log fire in winter or under the pine trees in summer. All dietary needs can be catered for. These can be tailored to the individual requirements or on a pre-bookable course.

 

14th January: Basic coloured pencil techniques. Bring your own pencils, with use of my own too

17th February: Draw your pet in coloured pencil. equipment as above

17th March: beginners gouache. price includes starter kit for the day.

31st March: Kingfisher in Inktense

14th April: Have a go day: try different Derwent coloured pencils. Taster day with all equipment supplied

12th May: Drawing animals to proportion

9th June: drawing the horse in coloured pencil. bring your own equipment

7th July: Ink and pencil drawing day. Images and equipment supplied

8th September: Perspective drawing, image supplied

20th October: Paint your pet in Gouache or acrylics, bring your own paint and canvas or paper

 

For further details please refer to my website www.judithselcukillustrations.com or email me on judithselcukillustrations@gmail.com

For Members in South Yorkshire

This has come from Georgina Harvey, a past member of the society:

I am currently a lapsed member of UKCPS because of the demands of my work over the last 12 months or so. I am still very interested in coloured pencil work but wondered whether anyone knew of any demonstrations rather than workshops that I could attend. I live in the South Yorkshire area. I would just like to watch techniques and how pictures are built up, if that makes sense.
Thank you so much. I will probably re-join the Society in the very near future.

Gina Harvey


Gina can be contacted at:
ginah1@tiscali.co.uk

West Yorks Local Group

Our man Michael Maguire, Editor of the UKCPS Newsletter, made a visit with his wife to the recent Exhibition run by the West Yorkshire local group based in Baildon: -

Many congratulations to the West Yorkshire Group on their first ever local exhibition which ran between 23 September and 5 October 2013 at Baildon Library .

 

My wife and I were highly delighted to see a fine collection and good standard of CP work.  We were especially pleased to quite literally bump into Norma Hall and her husband whilst we were taking notes and I was snapping merrily away! My apologies if I confused Norma about why we were there. I did give her the opportunity to be included in a photograph of her lovely rendering "Our Daily Visitor", but I gather she was a little overwhelmed by what she thought was a local news reporter for the Telegraph & Argus. I'm quite thrilled to have been mistaken for the paparazzi!

 

A female German tourist was also taking an interest in the exhibition and she asked about the type of pencils and supports. She thought many of them were watercolour so I explained there may have been water soluble images among them. Baildon Librarian, Deborah confirmed that there had been quite a steady flow of visitors milling around the display.

 

All in all, it was a brilliant first show for this local group and we look forward to seeing the next one. Well done!

 

Michael Maguire

Associate & Editor of UKCPS the Newsletter

UKCPS local group exhibition

This comes from Roy Lorrain-Smith over in West Yorkshire:

Our local group is holding an exhibition in Baildon Public Library from 23 September to 5 October.  (For those who don't know, Bailden is located just to the north of Bradford )

 

Day	Opening times
Monday	9.30am-7.00pm
Tuesday	9.30am - 5.30pm
Wednesday	9.30am - 1.00pm
Thursday	9.30am - 7.00pm
Friday	9.30am - 5.30pm
Saturday	9.30am - 4.00pm

 

Address

Baildon Library
Hallcliffe
Baildon
Shipley
BD17 6ND

 

Web address: http://www.bradford.gov.uk/bmdc/leisure_and_culture/library_and_information_services/a-z_of_libraries/libraries_baildon_library

 

We’re a cheerful group, meeting in a pleasant room, with about a dozen members on the books, though not all come to every meeting. Mostly we do our own thing, with much sharing and discussion of the pencillers world. There is wide variation of style and experience, with newcomers made very welcome. The rule is: if you want to know, ask; and if you’re asked, tell. This is our first exhibition.

Contact Roy for further information about the group:

Roy Lorrain-Smith

9 Fyfe Grove, Baildon, Shipley, BD17 6DN

T: 01274 593955 E: royls3@virginmedia.com

East Leake Group - picture

Robin Borrett's, East Leake Art Group have again produced one of their composite pictures, and all in aid of 'Help for Heroes' and the Air Ambulance.

Twelve members of the group took part, between them drawing sections of the original picture onto 21 A4 sheets of 220 gsm smooth cartridge paper using various makes of black coloured pencil.

The finished picture measures 1470 mm x 891 mm, and is currently on display at East Leake Parish Church Hall.

'The Beehive Wicker Works - East Leake'

The original picture was drawn in 1930 by J Hallam Pegg

Wirral CP Group

Just in case any of my readers are planning to be visiting the Wirral this coming weekend (They are commemorating the Battle of the Atlantic on the River Mersey -- loads of warships in the docks to photograph!), you may wish to spend the afternoon of Saturday 25th in the company of the Wirral group.

1pm to 4pm at St Chad's Church Hall, Roslin Road, Irby, Wirral, CH61 3UH.

It's International Nerds Day - otherwise known as Geek Pride Day - (It's true! Honest!), so I shall be awarding a prize to the picture voted the most Nerdy!

Contact me on: 0151 670 1680 or email: alanmacann@btinternet.com for information or directions.

New Local group - North Yorkshire

UKCPS Signature Member, Lesley Sharman, has been in touch to tell about a new Local Group recently formed in the Ripon area of North Yorkshire:

We've now had a first meeting and have set up a group. It all went swimmingly. Everybody got on well together, and are very keen.

There are six of us at present: one's not yet a UKCPS member but is an excellent CP artist and I expect she will join soon.

We've called ourselves the UKCPS Dales Group.
We've arranged to meet on the last Monday of the month, from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm, at my house for the foreseeable future.

For more information about the Dales Group, contact Lesley direct on:
art@lesleysharman.co.uk 
01765 601868

[If any other members have news items about their local group - please let me know and I'll publicise it!  send to: localgroups@ukcps.co.uk ]

New Local Group - Derbyshire

My sincerest apologies to Eleni - I originally had her down as based in Nottinghamshire!! The original post is amended:-

Eleni Mcloughlin is in the process of forming a UKCPS Local Group in the Derby area, and was holding a preliminary meeting at her home on 12 December 2012.

For further details, contact Eleni on: eleni.mcloughlin@ntlworld.com

[PS  I will be taking over the co-ordination of UKCPS Local Groups from Pauline Longley, -- so if you have need of a local group in your area let me know and I'll d what I can to assist --or if you already have one, send me information about your activities and I'll blog the details:  localgroups@ukcps.co.uk or via this blog: ukcpsblog1@gmail.com]

Alan

Local group - Bawtry, Sth Yorks

News from UKCPS member, Sue Woffinden, regarding her local group:

Known as the Three Counties Botanical Art Group,  we meet every Wednesday morning 9.30 - 12.30 at The New Hall, Bawtry, South Yorkshire.

 We are a small group who meet to do botanical art, no tutor, but we do help each other if we can. We are looking for new members to swell the numbers!

  We are having an exhibition in the Bawtry Library for the full month of November. If you would like to join us either call in on a Wednesday morning or contact Sue Woffinden on 07941 509871.