230. Chocolate Lover? Nope!

W&N Watercolours, Unipin and Tombow pens with 

Pilot Super Colour Gold and Silver pens and Chinagraph pencil

in Stillman & Birn Alpha sketchbook, 8.5" x 5.5" (x2)

That's right; I don't like chocolate!

92. Happy Easter!

Acrylic and emulsion on lining paper, 8ft x 20ft

Four of our team walked around adding heavenly bodies to each strip.

Black emulsion then acrylic colours with white emulsion 240cm x 56cm (x10)...

… Meanwhile, I started squaring up a small web image on a large scale.

6B pencil on lining paper (masking tape)

Two artists added three tones then I painted the outline.

Fourth tone and test background added by me

Blue and green oceans painted entirely with Bernice's fingers and palms.

Clever!  :)

Acrylic and emulsion

Initial hanging before sealing edges with double-sided tape.

Somebody's tired!

Checking relationships.

Fingers cut to fit world before I took the latter home to paint the countries

and the theme for the weekend.

Some tracing and some drawing. I didn't enjoy the tracing at all!

Ooops! I forgot Trinidad and Tobago; sorry peeps!

Careful not to ruin B's lovely paintwork.

Ready for Good Friday evening and the

Easter Sunday Celebration: 'Hope for the World'

Happy Easter everyone!

26. Good Friday

 

Acrylic and emulsion on lining paper, 8ft x 20ft.

 

We painted the figures separately and stapled them so we could remove them, leaving the crosses empty for Easter Sunday.

 

I'm pleased with how my two figures came out.  (I drew them in the large church hall but painted them mostly on my kitchen floor.)  It was extremely painful to paint the crown of thorns - I should have expected that!

 

 

I was almost badly caught out as I cut the figure below about two inches too short!!  His left hand should have been sitting just above the crossbar with his right hand in the middle of it.  It didn't look too, too bad though.  Phew!

 

25. Maundy Thursday and Easter Sunday Views

 

This was the backdrop we prepared for our Maundy Thursday service.  The left-hand cross was prepared for the non-repentant thief, hence the symbolic dark cloud.  It's difficult to separate my bit as we all worked on various parts.  However, look at the wood-grain.  Our team member, Bernice, came up with the idea of painting natural grain and she painted the bulk of it on her hands and knees copying the pattern from one of our lovely old doors.  Great work!

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This is what it looked like while we were on the floor in the hall checking it would fit together properly.

24. Cross from Palette Knife Scrapings

 

This was created from the remains of paint on my wooden palette (which you can see peeping through bottom left).  We'd been doing the Easter backdrop so crosses were on my mind.  I'll also post my contribution to the backdrop.