Susan Aggarwal April 2024

Susan introduced herself to the group and gave a brief talk about herself and her artwork. She enjoys painting flowers and started by reading a poem from a book she is working on about her artwork.
After showing a couple of her finished paintings she started work on her demonstration piece.
This was on a canvas, on the theme Spring. It was on a recycled canvas and needed an undercoat of mainly white acrylic with a few added subtle colours. This background would become part of the final painting. Using a sponge she blended in this underpainting.
Paint was then applied with a palette knife and again smoothened with a sponge in areas. Roots, grasses and stems were then added, starting at the bottom of the canvas.
She continued to work all over the areas, mixing the colours on the canvas, achieving a sense of movement.
As she progressed paint was applied and areas removed as necessary. This would continue until the work needed to be left a few days before it would be retuned to for extra work to be done where necessary. 

At this stage several members of the group started work on their own interpretations of the floral theme and we are hoping to continue with this theme next week.

Members interpretations of the floral theme.

​Susan demonstrated an interesting way of working and I’m sure members learnt a lot from this and will be able to use these techniques on their own work in future.