PORTRAIT WORK

Just a few pics here, as diagrams to show a way of starting a portrait, (or anything) My point being that you can sort out what you are doing without using lines, just using patches of colour or tone.

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that way you have areas you can move in order to progress your painting, not finite lines which can hamper you. There were obviously more stages to this demo, but I hope that these show my point.

And what do you think about homework? Do you like having it as an excuse to do some of your own painting? Or not!

See you in January.....

broaden your outlook

I mentioned some artists when I saw you last, here are some names to look up, just as a reminder...Andrea Kowch, acrylic paintings, and Darren Woodhead, water colours of birds in their natural environment, all painted 'in the field'. I havn't found out yet how to put 'live' links in here yet some I'm afraid you will just have to google the names yourself, but do have a look, and see what you think.

BEFORE CHRISTMAS

Here are a few of the pieces of work from last term. I'm afraid I have only taken pics of those up on walls, so if you come to a class where we haven't got any display space then sadly I can't show your work. So here we go then

this is work from Cawston and from Marsham, not really shown here to best advantage, but I hope you can get a general feel for how work has progressed this Autumn, and a feel for the gorgeous colours in these watercolours. The portraits are in water mixable oils, and one in charcoal, I'm sure you can see which one that is.

Don't forget about the new (ish) class at Cawston 1.00-4.00 on Monday afternoons, which will be portraits from life. And maybe you know someone who would sit for us? there is a token payment of £10, but that is only money, and how can that compare with the charm and banter of class members, and copious tea and biscuits to make for an enjoyable afternoon?