

Results of our Sunday Workshop today...
Keeping it focused, keeping information to a minimum, holding onto the horizon line to anchor the painting...using line initially to help...


SUNDAY WORKSHOP, 13th October, Watercolour Layers.
In this workshop we're working with the idea that watercolour is a medium of shape rather than line and that we build up tones in layers....


LESSON PLANS SPRING TERM 2024 (1st half). Lesson 2: Watercolour from the charcoal drawings.
In this lesson I'm asking my students to refer to the charcoal drawings they made in the last lesson to work through a watercolour in...


Lovely work from Friday's group at our term start today...
...in the tiny still-life project. Great negotiations with charcoal and an eraser.


Lovely to be back with my Thursday group...
...doing the tiny still-lifes with charcoal and an eraser. Great work today.


A lovely start to our term with Wednesday's group...
...and our tiny still-lifes negotiated with charcoal and an eraser. Lovely work.


LESSON PLANS SPRING TERM 2024 (1st half) Lesson 1: Tiny Still Life - Charcoal and eraser.
We start our spring term early in the new year. This lesson is all about negotiations with charcoal and eraser. I shall ask my students...


We had a wonderful workshop day as the rain poured outside the hall..
...working on deconstructing and reconstructing a well known landscape painting. Some brought ideas from home and worked on those - a day...


A wonderful final session before Christmas with Friday's group...
...unravelling the (Alphonse Mucha!) image! Lovely work today.


Unravelling the image with Thursday's group...
...with wonderful results on this our final session before Christmas.