[BAS Newsletter] First Friday: Beckenham Place Park THIS FRIDAY

[Adrian Fowle (BAS Chairman)]

In a change from our advertised programme, our First Friday 
demonstration for July will be given by Nishad Karim, one of our 
members. I am grateful to him for filling in at short notice. The topic 
fits in nicely with our upcoming exhibition theme for the Beckenham 
Place Park exhibition. Nishad will be  painting quite a large water 
colour and talking about his approach and methods as well as technique. 
He is an art teacher by profession and in addition has a youtube channel 
of his own, so we expect a slick and polished demonstration - No 
pressure Nishad!

Nishad pointed to this by way of biography 
https://www.nishadkarim.co.uk/nishadkarimart

but https://www.nishadkarim.co.uk/ looks interesting too and the 
galleries show paintings from both his native Trinidad and Tobago and 
from parts of his adopted South London area.

The Zoom details are at the end of this email.

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In other news, you may recall my passion for the open source and free 
digital art programs Inkscape and Gimp

Inkscape (https://inkscape.org/) has just released its first series  of 
official releases as the version 1.1, after making its reputation in 
"pre-release" versions for the last  18 years. Whatever the oddities of 
the numbering this release has many new features that I have not studied 
in detail yet. Inkscape is a vector drawing program, whose commercial 
counterpart is Adobe Illustrator.

Gimp - a bitmap editor and therefore rival to Adobe Photoshop - has a 
more conventional numbering scheme for its releases. It is clearly 
limbering up for a major release at 3.0 soon. Download the current 
version or trials of the new version at https://www.gimp.org/

Have a look at what the experts can do with them, eg at

https://fineartamerica.com/art/inkscape

https://pixels.com/shop/canvas+prints/gimp

and many other sites


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*Adrian Fowle
Chairman, Bromley Art Society*

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Time: Jul 2, 2021 19:00 London

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