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<p class="">Art Matters - In the City 12/02/2020.</p>
<p class="">Last Friday's talk was led by Deborah and Paul.<br
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</p>
<p class="">Adrian sent his apologies as he was feeling unwell. All
who attended wished him well and a speedy recovery.<br class="">
</p>
<p class="">It was good to see the meeting well attended again with
many fellow artists contributing a wealth of different approaches
and techniques. Amongst them were</p>
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<li class="">Beautiful cylindrical panoramas of London's Scenes
lit up with tea lights from Diana<br class="">
</li>
<li class="">An view of the Shard and from an extraordinary ground
up view from Joyce who went out of her comfort zone with
painting London's building.<br class="">
</li>
<li class="">An atmospheric London night scene and an abstract
from Colin.</li>
<li class="">An abstract of circles containing a hint of London's
iconic images from Elena<br class="">
</li>
<li class="">An imaginary town view from Deborah's father and a
rare watercolour from Deborah herself.</li>
<li class="">Paul’s digital watercolour of a lone homeless
gentleman sitting on a damp cold London Bridge</li>
<li class="">and much more. It was fantastic having such a variety
of approaches.</li>
</ul>
<p class="">Digital art cropped up as a talking point at various
moments during the discussions. Some where already familiar with
the use of digital techniques and David Hockney's use of an Ipad
was mentioned by way of example. We heard that some Art Schools
were asking students to produce a digital drawing as part of the
entry process as it allows tutors to see the way the student
draws.</p>
<p class="">I was asked which software I use for my digital
watercolour's which is Rebelle 4. This originally focused on
mimicking the watercolour experience but has just recently
expanded to include oils. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.escapemotions.com/products/rebelle/about">https://www.escapemotions.com/products/rebelle/about</a></p>
<div class="">For those who have a more recent iPad or iPhone the
Notes App that comes as standard (looks like a piece of lined
paper with a yellow top) can now be used to draw - you can use
your finger though a cheap stylus (e.g. 50p in pound stretcher)is
a good investment and a lot cheaper than an Apple Pencil!</div>
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<div class=""> There are a wealth of other digital painting
software for all platforms some of which are based on the
Adobe model.</div>
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<p class="">Of note some excellent free open source digital
software for the artist which are available across Windows, OS
and Linux are :</p>
<p class="">Gimp - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.gimp.org/">https://www.gimp.org/</a></p>
<p class="">Inkscape - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0.2/">https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0.2/</a></p>
<p class="">Krita - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://krita.org/en/features/highlights/">https://krita.org/en/features/highlights/</a></p>
<p class="">Blenda for 3D artwork <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.blender.org/features/">https://www.blender.org/features/</a></p>
<p class="">Adrian, in fact did a introductory demo early last
year before lockdown during our live Three Corners event which
mentioned some of the above software and produced an excellent
hand out which I will aim to put up on the website.</p>
<p class="">There was a lot of interest at the meeting in the
materials that people had used for their entries so next weeks
Art Matters is entitled "My Top Materials” and opportunity
for everyone to share their favourite materials or methods.
The aim is to share something to inspire your fellow Artists
to try it out. The meeting will be at 7pm on zoom as usual but
will not include any homework to enable people to put their
finishing touches on their "Ring out the old, ring in the new"
painting competition before submitting them on the closing day
which is next Friday 19th Feb. <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bromleyartsociety.org.uk/exhibitions/coming-exhibitions/">https://www.bromleyartsociety.org.uk/exhibitions/coming-exhibitions/</a></p>
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<p class="">If you need assistance in photographing and
submitting your work please contact Deborah or Paul who will
try and assist you.</p>
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<p class="">If you would like to see the entries received to
date this can be found here<a
href="https://www.bromleyartsociety.org.uk/project-tag/ring-out/"
class=""> https://www.bromleyartsociety.org.uk/project-tag/ring-out/</a>.
Deborah thinks she has posted everyone’s entries. If you have
sent in an entry but don’t see It here please email <a
href="mailto:exhibitions@bromleyartsociety.org.uk" class="">exhibitions@bromleyartsociety.org.uk</a></p>
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<p class="">Kind regards,</p>
<p class="">Paul<br class="">
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