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Hibernating in space between bricks - Carol . Many original ideas were developed and good fun with the topic

There were many entries for this fun weekly challenge. It got the imagination going for many of us and a nudge to create something....

There were some very imaginative drawings - sketches and paintings submitted for us to chat about in our weekly meeting on Tuesday.

We had a great set of paintings for this weekly challenge

Shadows - light hearted challenge, we had our biggest entry to date by members at 17 - Well done to all for attempting this in the lock down. We had 21 members on the Zoom meeting to describe their art challenge or aspects of their life which spilled over into 2 hours active discussions.

Challenge made by Sarah Stanley - anything relating to the number three

I would like to extend my sincere thanks to you and members of Stafford Art Group for very kindly thinking of Katharine House Hospice and setting up a Just Giving page to fundraise for us from your Tuesday virtual art classes. What a wonderful idea! During what are really difficult and unprecedented times it is fantastic to hear how groups...

This weeks challenge is The Sky. This is deliberately meant to be light hearted and fun to get us all painting and one of them will be chosen at random to go on the front page of this website for a week! All the others will be posted for everyone to see. We are hoping to link this activity to a charity so that our endeavours may help others....

The challenge for this week was in or on water, for display at the meeting on Tuesday 21 April

Our SAG Zoomers could do with getting familiar with these simple aspects which will help them enjoy the meetings by:-

Workshop topic was painting street scenes with acrylics

If you fancy a break from all things christmas... I can thoroughly recommend the Maurice Wade Exhibition which is currently at Potteries Museum and Art Gallery. The temporary exhibition is showing a wide range of Wade's work spanning his painting years. He works in a very monochromatic style, creating the stark landscape of the potteries.

Our winter exhibition took place on Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd November. Oddfellows was transformed into an Art Gallery of wonderful artworks displayed beautifully. The cafe was available for drinks and cakes at very affordable prices.

This evening, 8th November , we were treated to a presentation by local artist Steve Woodhams. Steve originates from Bloxwich and is soon to be the Chair at the Walsall Artists Group - a well established group of artists for over 70 years.