Episode Six: Time to get the paints out, relax and enjoy!

Painting and drawing – the perfect activity for chilly winter days!

In this episode, recorded just before Liskeard moved into Tier 3, we start 2021 with a self indulgent look at all the fun you can have just sitting down with your paints or a sketch book and pencil.

Painting and drawing is the perfect activity for this time of year and whether, like Susie, Tiggy and Ann you are coming back to it after your working life, or whether you are starting from scratch, it is probably hard to beat sitting down at your kitchen table with a mug of tea, Radio 4 on in the background and just playing around with a bit of paper and some sort of drawing or painting utensil. Susie, Tiggy and Ann talk about how they have learned this year that it doesn’t matter what you do with your paint, or what the result looks like – and it doesn’t matter what materials you use (a fork and a bit of old wallpaper or an Amazon box is as good as anything else) you can still have the best possible time. They also talk about how much fun it was sitting out in the garden during the summer chatting with a box of watercolour pencils and attempting to give the impression of some of the lovely flowers they were surrounded with.

Apologies again for the external noises (hail showers this time) around the open-sided summerhouse.

Notes and mentions:

Louise Fletcher, This Painting Life, facebook group of would-be artists This Painting Life (facebook.com)

Lewis Noble, abstract landscape artist and courses: Lewis Noble Artist

Art classes with Jennie Boniface in and around Liskeard (not currently running because of Covid restrictions) Art Classes with Jennie Boniface : Liskerrett Community Centre

Tips for beginners – Ann’s YouTube Channel: DrinK in a Hand Art - Ann Kinahan - YouTube

Ann's Instagram: DrinK in a Hand Art - Ann Kinahan - Instagram

Inexpensive art materials available locally in Cornwall: Liskeard - Trago Mills

Do please e mail us if you can with a question or with something new you might be planning to try in 2021 at: viewsfromthesummerhouse@gmail.com

Audio attributions:

Happy Boy Theme by Kevin MacLeod

This section is an excerpt of the original

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Happy Boy End Theme by Kevin MacLeod

This section is an excerpt of the original

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3854-happy-boy-end-theme

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/