Clare Shepherd
Artist and Teacher
Artist led Art Classes

...looking at wet-into-wet plus painting onto the dry page. Searching out what happens at the surface of the water as the stems pass...

...by Wednesday's group - lovely wet-into-wet combined with sharp focus and beautiful colours.

...and lovely things were created by all. We have two weeks break now before we're back at class.

In our last lesson we used both wet-into-wet watercolour and watercolour directly onto the dry page. We were studying a small jam jar...

...watercolour techniques and simple flowers in jam jars. Lovely experiments, lovely results.

Looking at flowers in jam jars, studying stems through the surface of the water, using wet-into -wet and revealed light shapes...lovely...

...and more - from Wednesday's group. Finding focus on the dry half of the paper (lower half) and expression on the wet half of the paper!

...on the top half of the painting and working on dry paper on the bottom half of the painting.

The irony of this lesson is that one needs almost not to care about the result, but to love the process. We're going to be looking at a...

...looking at still-life through the eyes of Giorgio Morandi - Lovely carefully seen work.