

On an island called Hainan...
In China. 1st stop, coconut milk from coconuts!


Arrived in Hong Kong yesterday...
...fast and furious compared to Japan! we're off to Hainan for a few days from Sunday so, as it's China-proper, there'll be no WhatsApp,...


Finally brush to paper...
... and then the rain came down! I'll try again later although rain is forecast for our last few days.


A busy few days...
...we've had some rain in Osaka...refreshing...we had a very smart lunch with George's 'Japan grandmother', visited an insect...


A visit to a 'sustainable' festival and a couple of quiet days...
Note: This is the upgraded version of my car! Very funky! Isaac put his own shoes on (double check!). Flowers growing everywhere. Tower...


Made it! after a gruelling two flights...
...and this one knocked gently on our door and peeped in this morning. Isaac has a a best friend called Gen, one of a triplet ( two...


Wonderful work from Thursday's group...
...and the landscapes in watercolour making use of the dry channel technique.


Wednesday's fabulous work today...
...working from last week's drawings - painting with dry channels between shapes.


LESSON PLANS SUMMER TERM 2024 (1st half) Lesson 4: Landscape painting from last lesson's drawing.
In the last lesson I asked my students to reduce a landscape image to its simplest shapes - the shapes which describe distance and give...


Lovely work today from Friday's group...
....drawing the shapes that describe distance and making the drawing from which a painting will evolve. There's no class next Friday so...