Programme
This page holds all the planned events for the Hallam Art Group programme. Check here regularly for updates and details on forthcoming activities.
Participating in planned events is optional. Members are free to progress their own projects during weekly meetings.
Click on Google Calendar or ICS link to add the event to your calendar.
50th Anniversary Party
Hallam Art Group is 50 Years Old! We are celebrating this milestone with a party.
All members are invited to join us for a catered finger buffet and surprise activity - please sign up!
Best of YouTube
In a change to our regular programme of DVDs - we present a hand-picked selection of painting tutorials from the online video site.
Hallam Portrait Artist of the Year
Hallam Art Group will be staging our own homage to the television painting competition.
Hallam Portrait Artist of the Year: The Judging
The competition will be judged. Will there be a prize?
4th July Independence Day
Draw famous US buildings and bridges to commemorate 4th July. A chance to practice your perspective!
Perspective Workshop
A hands-on workshop with Glyn. How to do perspective without the stress.
2024 Spring Exhibition
The Hallam Art Group 2024 Spring Exhibition will be held at the Sheffield Botanical Gardens
Submissions Night
Everyone hoping to exhibit in the May exhibition will need to submit a form with the list of paintings.
Bring your completed submission forms and a card for payment.
Light: A User's Guide
Glyn will be giving a talk on the mechanics of light, and how that relates to painting realistically.
This talk will explain many things:
Why did Romans sculpt better than they could paint?
Why is the sky blue?
Why are shrimps unimpressed by television?
Understanding how light works, and how our brains frequently mislead us, can help artists to paint more convincingly.
The talk does include some science, but there will be jokes.
This will be a presentation with very many slides followed by a Q&A
This will also be the night where we paste the yellow exhibition posters. We would be grateful for volunteers.
Figures in Ink
A chance to practice portrait or figure sketching - we are going to draw each other.
Please bring pencils, ink and perhaps last year's Inktober book.
DVD Night
John explores and explains the relationship of the face to the head and the positioning of our features.
John demonstrates seated, reclining and standing portraits by drawing form life.
John demonstrates varied tones of skin and hair will help you to capture the natural look
Exhibition Tips
Jennifer will go through the exhibition process. If you have never exhibited before, this is where to get all the information..
Anna Massey
Anna Massey, a local artist and art teacher, will help us draw an Expressive Highland Cow! We will be using watercolour and ink.
Collage Follow On
Bring magazines or other sources of imagery. Bring some scissors. Glue will be provided.
Collage Evening
Please collect magazines and other images which you can use to construct a collage.
Still Life: Sweets!
Still life painting - with sweets as the subject matter. Please bring some sweets along. Perhaps a small bowl.
Portrait Workshop
Our first workshop event of 2024 will be Portrait Painting Workshop with Glyn. Participants will get the opportunity to paint a sitter with a three hour long pose.
Burns Night Event
Scottish themed still love. Bring something Scottish to paint / draw.
Christmas Party & Games Night
Please bring a childhood photo for us all to try and link names.
There will be wine and soft drinks provided.
We are asking everyone to bring something to put on a communal table.
There are loads of ideas in the shops, or make something yourself. Remember that it only needs to be small, enough volume for you to eat.
DVD Night - Dynamic Acrylics with Soroya French
International Artist and Author, Soraya works in watercolours, oils, pastels, acrylics and mixed media with a variety of subject matters such as musicians, café scenes and African market scenes amongst others. Many of her subjects are travel based including people in everyday life situations. Light and colour are the two important elements in her paintings together with semi abstract passages with a sense of ambiguity.
Sargent Practical
Members are encouraged to do a painting or drawing in the Sargent Style. There will be a unique prize for the “most Sargenty work” judged at 9:15PM on Thursday 16th.
The Secrets of John Singer Sargent
Learn about the Gilded Age painter, John Singer Sargent. His life, his scandals and his methods of painting.
Autumn Show 2023
The annual autumn show will be held at the Hallam Community Hall on November 4th and 5th.
Life Drawing
The second life-drawing session of the year.
Please note that no other work is permitted at this session.