[BAS Newsletter] Bromley Art Society AGM 5th April 2024 at the Daylight Inn followed by a bold demonstration by our very own Zsuzsanna Pataki

[Paul Stringfellow]

Dear Members and friends of Bromley Art Society,

On 5th April I am looking forward to getting back to meeting everyone at 
our live demonstrations.

This Newsletter contains a lot of information but in summary we have:

  * *Our AGM and live demonstration Friday 5th April and a call for help, *
  * *A reminder for membership fees please to keep us going in for 2024.
    *
  * *A reminder that we are participating in the Bluebell exhibition
    24th April - 6th May*
  * *The follow up from our recent online demonstration by Les Darlow.
    *

Hope to see you soon.

Kind Regards,

Paul and the committee

** AGM and a welcome back to our live demonstrations for 2024.*

We will be holding our AGM promptly on Friday 5th April at 7pm at the 
Daylight Inn, Function Room Pett's Wood. Doors will open at 6:30pm and 
will be followed by a fantastic demonstration by Zsuzsanna before 
finishing around 9 - 9:30pm. More details to follow.

*Message to all members, friends and colleagues of Bromley Art Society - 
This year in particular we urgently need people who have the vision and 
committent to keep local artists together.*

Bromley Art Society has enjoyed 76 years of successfully bringing artist 
together within Bromley and neighbouring boroughs. Last year we had many 
successful events including the exhibition at the Glades, a live 
workshop at Ripley for the first time and we moved our Wednesday 
Sessions to a new location at St Georges*,* Bickley. This is whilst we 
organise regular monthly events throughout the year and keep the society 
financially sound.

These events do not happen on there own but depend entirely on the 
continuous energy and committent of a few who are willing and able to 
help run the society on behalf of others. I think the society can boast 
that it also has many loyal members that have, and continue to, 
contribute much of their personal time in helping events without which 
they would not happen.

Each year, especially in the last two or three, we have asked for people 
to help run the society. This is largely because of a range of personal 
circumstances has caused people to pull out of the committee or reduce 
their committent. We are now unfortunately left with too few running the 
society. This is no longer sustainable. We urgently now need people who 
have the vision and committent to keep creating the means to bring local 
artists together on behalf of those artist*.* We also need people to 
help support that endeavour and look after our finances, administration 
and publicity. The society depends on people proactively fulfilling 
these key roles:

Chairman
Treasurer
Secretary
Membership Secretary
*Lead Exhibition and Events Organiser(s)
*1st Friday Organiser
*Webmaster
*Publicity & Media officer(s).

At the moment we do not have anyone fulfilling the roles of *Lead 
Exhibition and Events Organiser(s), 1st Friday events organiser, 
Webmaster and Publicity & Media officers*.  These are all key roles 
without which we will have no further events on behalf Bromley Art 
Society. unless some of our members can take up the helm.

Our membership and finances are currently strong. We have the 
experience, expertise and will amongst our members but what we don't 
have is sufficient proactive people on the committee to keep us going. 
It is a wonderful rewarding opportunity to get to know other local 
artist and help like minded people come together. You will receive a 
warm welcome and support from people who are dedicated to helping keep 
our society going.

If you can help our society or know someone who could help please do not 
hesitate to get in contact with myself or any of the committee.

** A reminder that membership fees are now overdue for 2024.*

There are still a few who have not yet renewed their**membership - 
please renew as soon as possible to avoid me having to chase people up 
individually. Instructions can be found at 
*https://www.bromleyartsociety.org.uk/members/membership-renewal/*

* *A reminder that we are participating at the Riverhill Bluebell 
exhibition 24th April - 6th May*

This is one not to miss in a fabulous setting - Details can be found at 
https://www.riverhillgardens.co.uk/activities-events/bluebell-festival

** Follow up from our recent online demonstration by Les Darlow.*

On Friday 1st March we had a wonderful original demonstration of 
Panpastles by Les Darlow. Below  is a follow up message from Les and an 
image of the final two fantastic pastels paintings he demonstrated.

"Hi Bromley Art Society,

Thanks so much for inviting me to demonstrate Panpastels with mixed 
media.. Everyone was very welcoming.. I had a lovely evening..

Attached a both the pictures I completed..

The first one was painted on a white sheet of Canson Mi Teintes, a 50% 
Cotton paper, using Panpastel, then watercolour and then pastel to 
finish.  bear in mind, Canson Mi Teintes doesnt really like water and 
buckles, but if taped down well and a hair dryer used it seems to bounce 
back pretty well. I don't soak the paper, i just use little bits of water.

The technique is just getting the right amount of panpastel on so it 
rejects the watercolour a little bit and creates a dry brush effect.

The second painting was done on Canson Touch a micro abrasive primed 
paper. It a mixed media paper so likes water., can still buckle though 
if over soaked.

Colours used in both,    Dairylide Yellow tint, Orange Tint, 
Ultramarine, Ultramarine Tint, Magenta Extra Dark. Paynes Grey...  I do 
have a 10 and 20 sets of panpastels that have been created fo me by 
Panpastel available from jacksons and other outlets, Heres a link to the 
colour in the 10 
set.https://www.jacksonsart.com/panpastel-skyscapes-with-les-darlow-set-of-10-colours-plus-tools?___store=jacksonsart_en&acc=a5e00132373a7031000fd987a3c9f87b 
<https://www.jacksonsart.com/panpastel-skyscapes-with-les-darlow-set-of-10-colours-plus-tools?___store=jacksonsart_en&acc=a5e00132373a7031000fd987a3c9f87b>

Watercolour,  Magenta, Ultramarine, Phthalo Blue, Phthalo green, raw 
umber, Burnt sienna,

Both paintings available for purchase. £50 plus pp £10

I have an offer if anyone is interested. My 5 Book download, plus 
additional bonus step by step using pans on watercolour paper.
10 step by step projects in total. If purchased separately would cost 
over £65..

All the very best to everyone, hope to see you all again.. Les"

www.lesdarlow.com

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