Cloud gazing
Another amazing, cloud-gazing day with the Brave Artists in Bury St Edmunds, as artist Jo Chapman invited them to study how Constable found shapes and colour in clouds.
In the course of a few short hours, the students moved from creating dramatic 2D charcoal illustrations of clouds to 3D models, using cardboard and waste paper, masking tape and lots of Modroc.
Constable found so many colours in the sky; it’s only when you start to study his pictures that you realise just how much is going on. The Brave Artists did just that, and then set to with palettes of purples and bright greens, creating stunning watercolour images of storm-lashed beaches, hope-inspiring rainbows and what may possibly be the beginning of the universe as we know it.
Pieces of charcoal pencil on top of a drawing of clouds
Fluffy cumulus clouds
Shape-shifting clouds
Stormy clouds
There's so much to see in clouds
Cloud mountains
This lumpy white object is constructed out of a cardboard base with scrumpled-up newspaper taped to it and then covered in Modroc
After the storm comes the rainbow
Figures on the beach
The beginning of time?
Boats on the beach
Light skies
Cloudy horizons
Dark skies
Sun rising
All at sea
Raindrops glinting in the sun
Water colours
All the colours of the rainbow
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From time to time, one of our project officers gets to take part in a different Suffolk Artlink project. This week, Candida, who normally blogs on behalf of Extra Time, visited the Brave Art group in Bury St Edmunds, to find out a little more about what inspires their art.
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