Clare Shepherd
Artist and Teacher
Artist led Art Classes

...lovely work from Thursday's group - seeing from the foreground reference right through to the furthest distance.

...lovely drawings today from Wednesday's group - understanding distance by seeing everything against a forerground reference.

The challenge - to see the distance in relation to the foreground! Lovely work tonight.

In this lesson I'm asking my students to make a study of what they see in front of them, beginning with whatever's on their tables, and...

...looking through the eyes of Henry Moore and his sheep sketches. No outlines, just a build up of tone and texture with scribbles and...

...drawing without outline - building tone, texture and form through scribbling. Lovely work today - great experiments! Including in this...

No outlines, just building tone and texture and then imposing 'form' lines marks on top. Fabulous work today.

...using dashes, squiggles and dots to build up tone and texture. Find the form of the sheep with lines that help describe the shape....

In this lesson I'm asking my students to look at Henry Moore's sheep drawings - to notice how he describes the roundness of the sheep,...

...if time allowed, a thought provoking paper 'knot' to see and depict through line and tone. Great work today.