We have a wide variety of artwork from this afternoon’s session. We have some large floral pieces, which are giving the chance for experimentation in watercolour, exploring composition, pattern, colour and mark-making. In another larger piece we have various media being used together including watercolour and posca pen to create a more abstracted design using circles as a starting point - this piece is potentially going to be sewn onto as well.
We have a lovely watercolour study of the flowers that I brought in, looking at depth using the white of the paper and layers of watercolour - the flowers are alive on the paper. The large apple watercolour painting is now finished - very well observed pieces of apple looking at highlights and shadows, texture and colour, and with a lightly painted grass background.
We have the beginnings of a lovely composition of a floral arrangement inspired by Rennie Macintosh - watch this space for the colour. Then there are more apples, but by a different artist, and using graphite to render light and shadows as well as texture - you can almost pick the apples up off the page. Then, watercolour studies in painting chive flowers, mixing and trying out different shades and tones of violet, and a larger chive flower placed centrally on beautiful hand made watercolour paper, with a surprising amount of detail considering the textured paper.
Inspired by the idea of painting something that is very small but on a large scale, we have micro life of a pond, using mixed media, watercolour, ink and pen - the jewels colours and application of paint are very evocative.
A series of practice portraits in charcoal and graphite follow, exploring interesting face shapes, as well as having opportunity to get to know a variety of noses, eyes, mouths and chins! What great characters these portrait works have.
There is a very sensitive and lyrical portrayal of a musician, in a limited watercolour palette of flowing colours that sing from the page.
And then cat studies using pen, graphite and watercolour pencil, these were exploring ways to portray depth with different media - there is a real sense of cat-ness in these studies!
And finally, more work on the dove this afternoon, with coloured pencils using gorgeous coloured greys and beautiful mark-making.
A lovely session, thank you all so much!
