SketchTogether – Museum of Classical Archeology
Nine CDS members or friends sketched at the Museum of Classical Archaeology on Saturday 16 November. The museum is full of Greek and Roman plaster casts from 1700 BCE to 400 CE. It was such a lovely place to draw most of the group wanted…
Mixed Media Landscape Workshop with Alice Thomson
Only One Space Left A CDS workshop led by Alice Thomson on Saturday 30th November at Grantchester Village Hall, from 9:30am-4:30pm. In this workshop you’ll be working from photos of a range of landscape images, experiment with a range of media including collage, ink, pastel paints and…
SketchTogether – Whipple Museum
For our October SketchTogether ten of us met up at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science. They could not have been more welcoming, giving us a whistle-stop introduction to the collection that gave us a feel for its breadth – and eccentricity. I…
Life Drawing Workshop with Harry Gray
A CDS workshop led by Harry Gray on Sunday 13th October at Grantchester Village Hall, from 10.00am-4.00pm. Enjoy a full day honing your life-drawing skills with Harry Gray, a renowned sculptor in East Anglia. – www.harrygray.co.uk The day will begin with a warm-up session in which you draw…
Talk – Approaching A Gallery
CDS Members and Friends had a great evening on 25 September joined by Zuza from Cambridge Contemporary Art. Zuza talked about ‘Approaching a Gallery’ and then answered loads of questions in a lively Q&A with a very engaged audience. So now we all know a…
SketchTogether – Bridge the Gap
This month’s SketchTogether took place at Bridge the Gap, a charity walk around the Cambridge colleges. Eight of us met up and spent several hours in glorious sunshine sketching the event in St John’s, Lucy Cavendish, Westminster & Emmanuel Colleges. Special thanks to Maureen Mace…
SketchTogether – Little St Mary’s Lane
Nine of us met up in Little St Mary’s Lane on a lovely sunny morning. It was idyllic, with so many views to pick from! Afterwards we had a coffee and a bite to eat in the Fitzwilliam Museum cafe. Some of our sketches are shown…
Creating A Marble-paper Collage – A Workshop with Sonia Villiers
A CDS workshop led by Sonia Villiers on Sunday 22nd September at Grantchester Village Hall, from 10.00am-4.00pm. Spend a wonderful creative day making sheets of marbled paper which will be used to compose an A3 collage of a scene of your choice. Sonia will spend the…
SketchTogether – Cambridge Shakespeare Festival
Men in tights and Russians with big beards dancing to Rasputin in a Fellows’ garden…it can only be the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival. We were very lucky to be allowed in to sketch the actors rehearsing for their production of Love’s Labour’s Lost. It was so…
CDS Participants in Cambridge Open Studios – 2024
This year is the 50th anniversary of Cambridge Open Studios with 360 artists taking part in 229 venues across Cambridgeshire. Studios will be opening over 4 weekends from 6-28 July (10am-5pm, free entry) – see the COS website or guide for opening times for individual studios….