

A really lovely afternoon working on Matisse drawings...
...looking at his mix of pattern and subject. Some of the work is on-going, to be finished during the week or next week - and some...


LESSON PLANS WINTER TERM 2023 (2nd half) Lesson 2: Looking closely at Matisse's use of pattern.
In this lesson I'm asking my students to copy a Matisse painting (using colour pencil). I have found it, in my own practice, incredibly...


Some fabulous work emerged today in Friday's watercolour session.
There have been beautiful results from this lesson in all three of my classes, today's included. The challenge was to keep the paper wet...


Fabulous things from Thursday's group...
...mingling pattern and subject on an initial wet-into-wet layer - a great challenge with lovely results.


Fantastic to see what Wednesday group have done...
...with this lesson, our first session back after our half term. It required bravery to work with a starting wash that was WET enough to...


LESSON PLANS WINTER TERM 2023 (2nd half). Lesson 1 - Wild Watercolour, mingling pattern and subject.
We're on our half term break now, but when we return towards the end of October we'll be...... In this lesson I'm asking my students to...


We had a fabulous Sunday workshop...'Still life with Mirror'.
. ..We were looking for the effect the mirror had on the still life - frequently revealing a side of the still life otherwise out of...


An exciting mix of work from Friday's group...
...faces in layers, people in layers and landscapes from our landscape project. Lovely work today.


People in layers, faces in layers...
...and some landscapes from the landscape project - wonderful work today by Thursday's group.


People and faces...fabulous work...
...from Wednesday's group (working inlayers) before we have our half term break.