Art Club Replay
Fun, intuitive and low-pressure self portraits!
These are free, playful and fun art sessions. Each month I choose a theme or material I want to play around with and you can either join in, or go off-piste, and do your own thing. I might spend a session playing with wet textures, playing around with how things bleed, mix together and blend. Other times I might grab a handful of random materials and play around with those together. All previous Art Play Dates are available as replays, and each new session adds to the back catalogue to watch and play along with.
Hello!
I’m here with the first May Art Club replay - woop!
We had great fun doing the self-portraits at this Art Club! I decided on it as a theme on instinct after regular Art-Clubber
showed us some of her wonderful self-portraits at a previous session. I’m really glad I did as I thoroughly enjoyed myself! I was quite pleased with mine although since broadcast everyone I have shown it to has said my portrait is deeply unflattering and makes me look about 85! But I still feel I captured a likeness and can see a slight wry smile on my face at the amusement of painting myself!I think it’s such a great exercise to work at speed like this, and make paintings in one short session as we do in Art Club. It’s such brilliant practice for perfectonists (which I am totally guilty of1)and I love all the happy accidents and discoveries I make by working in this low-pressure way. I hope you get a dose of this too by joining in, either as a live attendee or if you’re joining in with the replay.
I took a screen-grab of some of us holding up our portraits at the end! So fun!
Here are all the details for Art Club, including times, date and a link for our second meet-up this month, and below is the replay for paid subscribers.
Until next time!
Ella xx
ATTENTION! I am trialling making these every two weeks! Hooray! I’m excited to make more art together, more frequently!
Dates:
May Art Club 1:Wednesday 7th May. 12.30-1.30pm GMTMay Art Club 2: Tuesday 20th May 12.30-1.30pm GMT
Theme:
May Art Club 1:Let’s do some self-portraits for this one. Grab a mirror and put on some lipstick! I’ll start with the usual warm-up and will try and think of some exercises to help us get in the groove!May Art Club 2: I bought a new ceramic figurine in York last weekend! My son and I think we can spot a bunny and a dog in there. What can you see?
Join the club!! Art Club and Picture Book Club are for paid subscribers. And as well as supporting me, you get benefits too. A ccess to my big back catalogue of paid posts, and access to my monthly Zoom sessions: Art Club and Picture Book Club. And if you can’t attend live, all sessions are recorded and posted afterwards.