Newletter….January  2012                                                                           

Happy New Year to all of you. I hope you had a nice time over the festive season and ready to enjoy a Happy and creative 2012.

With John’s help 2011 finished with a high note. The quiz tested  our memories and our observation skills as well as teaching us a few lesser known facts [well, lesser known to us]. Thank you John and well done Bill Horlock for getting the highest score.

Our sessions starts again on Wednesday18th with Alice Pearson from Kirkcaldy Museum  who will present a slide show on some of the exhibits in the museum. I hope lots of you will be able to come along to what is usually a fascinating evening. I  always feel that I see the exhibits with a new eye after learning a bit more about them
Wednesday 25th we will have what has become our usual Burns Night. We will try to  paint or draw  from a chosen poem either our impression of the whole poem, choose a verse or a few lines.  I wonder which  poem>??? This will be followed by a mini Burn’s Supper served by the committee,
February1st Sheila Mitchell will give us a demonstration on painting loosely and the following week [the 8th] Sheila  will tutor us on painting loosely. Sheila is a very good tutor and both these nights will be very informative and  enjoyable.
February 15th will see us doing something different. Colin Bell will be showing us the art of Photography and hopefully we will learn how to use our cameras to better effect. Colin gave us a really interesting night two or three  years ago when many of us were new to digital photography.

Our afternoon sessions run every Thursday afternoon in February from 2.00 – 4.00 pm.
On the 2nd We will be either copying a Jolomo picture or painting in the style of. If you think this is an odd choice, the aim is to get us thinking about being bolder with colour and sometimes this is easier when we copy someone else’s, but this is just for exercise……. we may then want go on to try our own composition in bolder colour.
On the  9th we will try painting an abstract maybe using bolder colour…maybe  not, your choice. There will be a variety of material to choose from to give different effects and textures but if you have acrylic paint, please bring it, it is a  good medium to blend with others or on its own .Bring whatever you would like to work with
On the 16thwe could bring in our own photographs to paint from….or we could bring our camera, take pictures outside the hall and transfer them to a computer and paint from there. Again your choice.
On the 23rd we will be chip painting with Gerry………now there’s something to think about.
What is Gerry up to this time?????

The annual accounts are back from the examiners and for members who would like to see them we will start at ten past seven  on 25th.January for that purpose. We can then continue with  our  Burns night at the usual time of 7.30.  I hope this is OK for you. If there is a problem, please let me know.[01333 320408]

 Promoting the club    Thanks to Harry  for putting together posters and leaflets for distribution to promote the club. If you can help with the distribution [ art shops, libraries, post offices etc], please let me know.

Hope to see you all on Wednesday