Today we continued working on our ideas for our larger piece of work. Also, it was absolutely beautiful at the hall, and so how could at least one of you not go outside?! It was glorious and it is good to take advantage of the weather whenever possible. You are always welcome to draw and paint outside at anytime, regardless of what project we might be working on; the result is a sensitively drawn landscape in graphite pencil, with focus on differing textures of the wall, gate, tree, filed, sky, path and vegetation: very good markmaking.
There was also experimentation with a set of new waterproof inks, using flower motifs to try out different techniques to see what results happen. Also glorious experimentation in colour with burnt orange wallflowers, using watercolour. Another image shows exploration of creating depth in very dark purple-brown hellebores, a challenge that is working really well.
Then we have some compelling portrait studies in differing media on light brown paper to see how each media behaves. Another student tried out chalk pastels for the fist time in her ongoing exploration of different media using cats as the subject matter, with some lovely and creative results in the use of colour.
And then we have someone who did watercolour explorations from a live flower, as well as tackling one of Rosie Sanders watercolour artworks, creating a careful and beautiful study of one of her watercolour pitcher plants (from one of the books that I brought in).
Thank you, everyone, and I will see you on Wed 14 May.
