Enthusiastic painters attended each day of Ros’s workshop, with several attending both. On Saturday the group painted a still life featuring ceramic and clay vessels, and watched Ros complete a demonstration of another still life.

The Sunday group painted cows and horses, using the same materials and techniques.
Ros’s materials included a very limited palette and canvas taped to a board. Most of the group brought canvas on stretcher frames, and we were interested to see the ease of use and versatility of the canvas which can be cut to the desired size and shape, and can be cropped to a different size or proportion later if desired.

For each painting, we started with a charcoal drawing, then went over it with a dilute painted line, blocked in the big shapes, then painted the background. At each of these stages we had an opportunity to improve the drawing. Once we had completed those steps we were able to refine the painting and add the highlights.
For details about Ros’s work and videos of her process, go to her website: http://www.rospsakis.com/ or her Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/rospsakis

The Artists Society of Canberra is holding the annual Summer Art Experience with great workshops over the summer holidays.

The second AGM will be held at 4pm on 17 October at Tootsie Fine Art and Design.

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By popular demand, Penny Kerr ran a workshop teaching participants to weave a pheasant using willow branches, on June 16.

We had another great workshop with Penny Kerr, weaving a garden cloche from willow. For a while it looked like chaos, with willow cuttings all over the floor, but we all ended up with unique and useful cloches to put a plantpot or hanging basket in.

Some of the workshop participants with their finished cloche