

LESSON PLANS 2024 (2nd half) Lesson 6 Finishing off the final two projects, fragmented images or 'stems' drawings
(Wednesday and Thursday groups will do this lesson next week as they're a week behind Friday's group) In the past two lessons we have...


A quiet Friday in which we began the 'stems' project...
...creating a tangle of garden weeds and grasses - beautiful work today.


Wednesday group began their 'deconstructed images' project today...
...with some sparkling and brilliant results! It's been great fun!


We had a Sunday workshop - summer flowers in mixed media...
...with a cacophony of colour and texture - the fabulous results of experiments with various media.


LESSON PLANS SUMMER TERM 2024 (2nd half) Lesson 5: Looking at the drawings of Catherine Nicholson. Drawing stems.
In this lesson I'm asking my students to make line drawings of stems and to build up gradually to create a feeling of a meadow or wild...


Lovely work from Friday's group, beginning the new project...
...deconstructing (and reconstructing) a magazine image - working with classic watercolour technique, great results, some work still...


Starting a new project - a deconstructed image, using watercolour techniques.
Amazing work from Thursday's group with this new project well underway today.


Wednesday's group have been finishing off the 'View Through a Window' project...
...with exciting results, great experiments with media and composition - putting the two elements, still life an a view, together. Lovely...


LESSON PLANS SUMMER TERM 2024 (2nd half) Lesson 4: Deconstructing and reconstructing a magazine image.
This is something we've done in the past and used as a method of good watercolour practice. My students can choose any magazine image to...


A lovely busy Friday afternoon class...
...working from the 'View through a Widow with Still life' drawings and some fabulous results.