Clare Shepherd
Artist and Teacher
Artist led Art Classes

...looking at bottles, in-between shapes, hard edges and soft transitions.

...lovely work from Wednesday's group working on the bottles and vessels.

...looking for whole shapes of groups of objects, finding 'lost' edges, painting the in-between shapes.

In this lesson I'm asking my students to set up a very neutral, simple still-life. I would like them to see both the shape of their whole...

... stage one - loose watercolour representation of a jar of flowers, stage two, a layer of drawing by use of a continuous line linking...

...back at Chettle for the morning. Flower paintings with loose paint and a fluid line - lovely stuff.

...wonderful work from Wednesday's group - working from flowers in a jam jar.

...line for further definintion - fabulous work from Tuesday's group.

...lovely work from Friday's group. A freeflowing line took them from the foreground to the furthest distance in their various views of...

In this lesson I'm asking my students to begin really loosely with watercolour and then find further definintion with pen or sharp pencil...