Clare Shepherd
Artist and Teacher
Artist led Art Classes

Keeping it focused, keeping information to a minimum, holding onto the horizon line to anchor the painting...using line initially to help...

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....

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...

...in the tiny still-life project. Great negotiations with charcoal and an eraser.

...doing the tiny still-lifes with charcoal and an eraser. Great work today.

...and our tiny still-lifes negotiated with charcoal and an eraser. Lovely work.

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...

...working on deconstructing and reconstructing a well known landscape painting. Some brought ideas from home and worked on those - a day...

...unravelling the (Alphonse Mucha!) image! Lovely work today.

...with wonderful results on this our final session before Christmas.