NEWSFLASH! It’s Party time…

‘First Friday Party’ #9

NEXT Friday (6th August from 7.30 – midnight)

Everyone welcome!

Capturing a ‘Scape

There is so much inspiration in the studio at the moment, I thought I’d share a few pictures of works in progress. These particular students are working on Landscapes from reference photos they have chosen, from seaside cliffs, to sunsets over the ocean, to a waterfall in the jungle.

Each student has chosen their preferred medium, including soft pastels, oil pastels and oil paint, meeting the challenges of how to paint a thousand leaves, or pastel a rock so that it looks rocky, or create the colour of water or capture the intensity of light…

Wonderful!

We are open today….

for life drawing class 10 – 1pm at the studio! If you have any concerns please call Elsie.

Coming Up @ Attic – June

2nd & 9th June: Continuation of Gavin’s mould making workshop.

4th June: First Friday #7

13th June: Discover Sculpture with Gavin Fifield.

20th & 27th June: 2  Sunday workshops on Abstract Expressionism with Alan Scott Moncrieff. Everyone who participates will take home at least one finished painting.  Suitable for beginners and experienced artists alike.

Life Drawing – every Thursday evening from 6 to 9pm

Disappearing Kat!

May is here, it’s blazing hot outside, civil war is in the air, the volcanic ash has cleared and I’m off to Europe in 2 weeks! That’s right, you heard me… I’ll be standing dumb-founded in the Sistine Chapel, skipping up little Venetian lanes, and twirling about in the Louvre trying to get a glimpse of the Mona Lisa…which everybody tells me is an anti-climax. But to be honest, what were they expecting, flashing neon lights?

Abstract Expressionism Course

Tap into your “inner child” and make the most of your “raw” ideas by expressing them in abstraction, on large canvases in oil paint.

Alan Scott-Moncrieff takes an “out of the ordinary” approach to help you get into and understand, via paint, your own natural sense of composition, bringing out skills to create art.  The process is invigorating and a lot of fun. You will be surprised at what you will achieve.

Alan’s courses will give you skills to produce dynamic paintings strong in design and content.

This course is open to painters of all ages and abilities

Children’s Life drawing Class

ODE TO THE LIFE DRAWING CLASS

There are some really fun angles in the legs.

Look at your model,

The human body is 8 heads deep.

The span of your arms,

Finger tip to finger tip

Is the same as your height.

From wrist to elbow is the same as the length of your feet,

Look at the proportions,

Look at your model.

Feet are tricky.

What happened to her weight line?

If she wasn’t leaning on that pillar

She would fall over…….

Friday night 16th April 2010

Good news is that The Wine Loft next to Attic has a special on wine, buy 1 get 1 free!!  Bad news is the offer only applies to wines over 2000 Baht!!!

Friday night… it’s the cheap wine from the Wine Loft… 3 bottles… and the talk is about throwing out the mistakes and working on the things you learn from the mistakes.

The best thing about attic studios is that one gets to create, to loud music if you want it.  Tonights selection…. beautiful fluffy clouds, 7 seconds away  from birth, songs that make you dance and  feel, songs that inspire you to paint

Attic: 16th April 2010 4pm

Jenny Lee….arrived looking like a slightly disheveled Dior model, black pants and scarf and jet earrings French pleat and gorgeous little flats…. 5 hours later she left attic looking like a plasterers mate….but she has got 3 stucco canvases, and next week she’s working on her image as spray painters side kick !!

On the Soi 16th April 2010

On the Soi…. The firemen in the static fire trucks move from one side of the road to the other to get out of the direct sun

Overcast on Soi 31 at the moment, so the boys in orange jump suits are kicking back in the truck, they’ve got the doors open… but even so it’s 40 degrees out there

Last week when the crowds were converging on The PM’s house,   Our firemen were definitely on standby on the roof of the truck along with the press with cameras and videos …after the big hoo-hah had thinned out we noticed a chap waving his hands at the firemen…….orange fireman opens up fire truck stop cock so he could wash his hands…. sweet.