Still Life

I hope you enjoyed the short clip from The National Gallery.  The 4 aspects he suggested to try to include in your still life were:

• Something ephemeral
• Something enduring
• Something of great personal value but low monetary value
• Something new

............  though of course you can (and usually do!) do exactly what you want - you have carte blanche to have fun with the topic!

Steve - Al Fresco Eating

Don - Personal school day memories

Kate - cut and dried

Steve - rainwater in my wheelbarrow

Ken

Something ephemeral – flowers from my garden

Something enduring – love

Something of personal rather than monetary value – Belleek pottery that my Mum bought

Something new – some books I bought to read during lockdown when the library closed

Sue

Ephemeral – a match result (one from many)

Enduring – Dunlop Maxply  - still going

Personal value – a press cutting from when Lesley and I won at Queens – 96 players from 14 counties

New – balls 

Kate - perfect peony

Sarah - The Party is Over

Ephemeral is the Champagne

Enduring are the shoes - I love them and have had them for years

Personal value but no monetary value - the hand bag was my mothers

Something New - the chiffon scarf with diamanté 

Ailsa - a very STILL life!

Kate - still life after Covid

 Gaynor - inside the Punga stump

Kate - maybe next year?

Angela

Ephemeral:    Teddy and Emily came from the charity shop , no idea of their past lives.

Enduring:       Lorena her hand was broken 55 years ago when I accidentally trod on it.

Personal value:    All of them now played with again by the grandchildren.

New:     Mog

Gill - used for my children and now my grandchildren!

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....... our topic for July is "Walking"

Medstead Tennis Club members in action

This is how some of the members from Medstead have been entertaining themselves during lockdown!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWmPOEFF1l8&feature=youtu.be

My Garden

As we have been spending so much time in our gardens during the lockdown, it seemed appropriate to pick this as our topic for this month.  
You can have as many photos each as you like this month!

Gill

Ken - crab apple blossom in front of a silver birch

Don - this is what happens if you plant a conker with your grandchild in 2016!

Stacey

Jan - the Gardener in the Garden!

Sarah - Alton in Bloom - "Scarecrow"

Sarah

Catherine - new house, new garden!

Catherine

Catherine

Ken - Papa blackbird, taking a moment's pause from parenting duties

.............. and baby blackbird waiting to be fed!

Keith - we have a large garden in our "new" house!

John

Gill - lupin

Angela

Angela

Angela

Ailsa

Ailsa

Sue - my vegetable garden!

Kate - garden from the patio

Kate - garden from the window

Kate - memories of Dad

Kate - gathering lilacs in the Spring again

Jan

Dan

Hilary

Hilary - Looks good. Smells good.

Rosie

Rosie

Rosie

John - our fellow drinker!

Gaynor - afternoon tea in the shed

Mervyn

Mervyn

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Our topic for June will be more of a challenge I think!  The National Gallery has produced a short clip to do with still life paintings, to encourage people to make their own version.

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/stories/make-and-create-construct-a-still-life?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NG_2020May_MakeandDoing_NM&utm_content=version_A

The clip only lasts 10 minutes so if you have the time (!!) you will hopefully enjoy watching it.  At the end it suggests the sorts of things that you might like to put in your still life - basically some guidance for you.

However don’t worry too much about following the "instructions" exactly - do what you want and experiment!  For this topic you are allowed to play around with photo editing software if you want to and have it.  You can again send in as many photos as you like.  Enjoy!