Landscape learning
DAGFAS members descended on Kingholm Quay, Dumfries, on Friday May 19 in the first of the season's workshops. Landscape painter - and our new president - Davy Brown believes in getting out into the landscape you want to paint and took his class to the Quay to make a series of on-the-spot sketches.
In the studio at Gracefield, Davy explored aspects of composition and demonstrated his method of scaling-up from a working drawing to a larger version, then blocking-in broadly with paint before starting to add detail.
Davy explaining his blocking-in method. Below: members start to translate their sketches into paintings.
The next workshop is on June 30, when Clare Melinsky will be offering guidance on linocut printmaking. Details can be downloaded from the Programme page.
Nearly 400 visitors viewed the society's exhibition at Castle Douglas Gallery, which ended on Saturday May 20, but only two works were sold of the 70 shown. Secretary Carol Reece and council member Muriel Collins were pictured helping to arrange the exhibition on May 9.