MONTHLY MEETING: Layering with Jan Leonard

NEXT MEETING

Tuesday 2nd February

We are looking forward to the start of another exciting year!
If you received any hand made cards at Christmas bring them for show and tell. 
Also bring along any masterpieces you have achieved over the summer and of course your journal.

Workshop:
LAYERING with Jan Leonard

Bring your usual gear including:
- Masking fluid
- watercolour paints
- indian ink
- acrylic inks
- fixative
- pastels if you have them, there will be some on hand if you don't.

Paper will be provided.

OVERVIEW of the BOTANNICAL ILLUSTRATION WITH VINCENT JEANNEROT

On October 3rd and 4th a lucky group of people took part in a work shop on botanical illustration with Vincent Jeannerot.

Vincent Jeannerot is a well respected French Botanical Artist and tutor. He has a BA in Fine Arts attained at Lyon (France) and is a member of the Maison des Artistes, the French Society of Botanical Illustration and the French Society of Watercolour. 

Overall it was a great weekend and the group are now budding botanical illustrators. Here are some pictures from the workshop.

MONTHLY MEETING: Yukimi Annand's 'The Wall' with Glenice Martin

NEXT MEETING

Tuesday November 3rd

At the next meeting we are lucky to have
Glenice Martin take us through the 2 day workshop with Yuki Annand she attended at SSiW in Melbourne.

BOTANNICAL ILLUSTRATION WITH VINCENT JEANNEROT: Details and Materials List

THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL.
IF YOU HAVE PAID AND HAVE NOT GIVEN US YOUR CONTACT DETAILS PLEASE EMAIL US newzealandcalligraphers@gmail.com SO WE CAN SEND YOU THE MATERIALS LIST OR CONTACT ROSE BROWNING on 021457673 or (09) 624 0472

WHERE: Gifford Gallery, Poronui St, Mt Eden

WHEN: 3rd - 4th October, 2015 
9.30am to 4.30pm each day (please arrive early enough to set up and be ready to start at 9.30am)

COST: $200 (the $100 balance is to be paid by 1st September)

FOOD: Morning and afternoon teas will be provided. Please bring your own lunch (Mt Eden shops are close by if you wish to purchase lunch)

PAYMENT: Please pay the balance of $100 into the NZ Calligraphers bank account: 01 028801 3756600 by 1st September. Receipts will be available at the Workshop.

MATERIALS: The flower we will be studying is the Anenome.

A board 

(40 X 50 cm) : this is for paper stretching. Simple MDF board will be OK.

If you are going to bring watercolour paper block ( already stretched paper pad), you don’t need to bring a board.

Spongy and a bowl for water – for stretching paper

Paper

Notebook or sketchbook for taking notes

Arches  HP or Fabriano Satin grain watercolor paper (300gms)

Pencil & Brushes:

1 Pencil, 2H or 3H

2 sable Kolinsky brushes Raphaël (sizes 1 & 2)

Other

Tissues 

1 white plastic eraser (Staedler) and crepe eraser

1 porcelain palette ( white small dinner plate is OK)

1-2 water container

Masking Fluid

Paint: List of the main colors used during the workshop

    

Watercolour paints (artist quality) Windsor and Newton, Shmincke and Old Holland

May green, permanent green, emerald green (or phtalo), Opera rose, vermilion, alizarin crimson, lemmon yellow, indian yellow, transparent orange, ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, lamp black & Payne’s grey

If your group is painting only leaves – you need three greens (above), alizarian red, lamp black and Payne’s grey.

·     Optional – you could bring daylight desk lamp for personal use.                                   

Vincent Jeannerot is a well respected French Botanical Artist and tutor. He has a BA in Fine Arts attained at Lyon (France) and is a member of the Maison des Artistes, the French Society of Botanical Illustration and the French Society of Watercolour. 

For more information on Vincent and his work please click on this link: MORE INFORMATION

Workshop with Barbara Ellis

NEXT MEETING

Tuesday July 7th

At the next meeting we are lucky to have
Barbara Ellis teaching us a workshop.
We will be using paints and brushes to experiment. 

What to bring:

300gsm paper or pad
1 x square edged firm brush (short bristle) any size
1x pointed brush (not too long bristle) any size
1x tube of acrylic plate
Plastic or old plate
Jar for water

WORKSHOP: Botannical Illustration with Vincent Jeannerot

WHERE: Gifford Gallery, Poronui St, Mt Eden

WHEN: 3rd - 4th October, 2015
COST: $200 (with $100 deposit to be paid by 1st July)
PAYMENT: Please pay deposit into the NZ Calligraphers bank account: 01 028801 3756600 by 1st July

Limited number of participants so early enrolment is encouraged. Materials list to follow for those enrolled.

Vincent Jeannerot is a well respected French Botanical Artist and tutor. He has a BA in Fine Arts attained at Lyon (France) and is a member of the Maison des Artistes, the French Society of Botanical Illustration and the French Society of Watercolour. His work has been exhibited at the Chelsea Flower Show and the L’art du jardin, Grand Palais, Paris and at many galleries in London & France. Vincent’s paintings have appeared as illustrations in several European gardening magazines and books such as Portraits de Fleurs, Plantes Aromatiques, Mes Saisons Gourmandes. Vincent has his own gallery in Old Lyon.

Vincent’s work is mostly in watercolour and he is known as a master in dry brushing.  He is attempting to express through his work the first emotions in contact with nature like the scent of a mushroom, the brightness of a wet oak leaf in the rain. Vincent as a tutor, has a kind and gentle touch.

Last year he ran workshops at Summer School in Winter with CSV (The calligraphy Society of Victoria) and Royal botanical garden in Melbourne. These classes sold out and were a huge hit, so much so Vincent is returning to Australia and NewZealand again. In fact this year his classes have been a major hit in Brazil & Russia and he is booked to teach in US later this year. We are extremely lucky to have a tutor of his caliber teaching Botanical Art coming to down under.

Click on the following links to see examples of Vincent’s beautiful work:

Vincent’s website is:  www.vincentjeannerot.fr/

http://www.artmajeur.com/en/artist/vincentjeannerot

https://www.pinterest.com/lacogni/vincent-jeannerot/