Clare Shepherd
Artist and Teacher
Artist led Art Classes

...great to watch Thursday group's re-negotiations on last week's drawings - some fabulous results.

...with our mixed media still-lifes. There was plenty of disruption of their drawings from last week before moving on the find detail and...

Disrupting the drawings from last week and re-working them with a variety of media - fabulous work.

In this lesson I'm asking my students to work freely with mixed media on their last-week's drawings - working freely means mistakes will...

...and great to back with them. We've looked at ellipses, unexpected relationships between objects and thought about ways to develop the...

...and some some lovely drawings emerging in our 'all angles of a still-life' project. There are always surprises when you look at a...

Looking at the still life from many different angles. Lovely interesting drawings ready for next week's session. Great to be back at class.

Looking at a still-life from three or four different angles. Tuesday's group produced some great studies of their still-lifes. These are...

Clanwilliam In Clanwilliam we stayed in a traditional Dutch thatched longhouse. The rooms were dark and cool and flag-stoned and had dark...

Another week until classes begin again but I want you all to be ready! I may blog again (electricity allowing) but while I can, I wanted...