Saturday 26th May, 2018 This is our 5th week for Travel Sketchers looking at the influence of well known international sketchers. We were looking Veronica Lawlor, a US based sketcher/illustrator/mixed media artist and her use of strong line, pattern and design. This is what our students were observing and trying out in their own work where it suited. Intro Sketchers were studying flat perspective. A house or building from the front only. Working out the ‘box’ (a building is a […]

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Saturday 19th May, 2018 By week 4 we are well and truly immersed in our sketching progress. You will have a book full of lines, marks, swatches, colours, notes and fun sketches which are the results of practice practice and more practice. You’ll remember doing each and every one. And loving it. Teapots were big this week. Not only big but hilarious teapots too. We were channeling  Danny Gregory’s very amusing not too serious style. We were right into that. […]

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Saturday 12th May, 2018 Our Intro sketchers are well on the way to seeing shape, form, and dimension. It’s water, sea and composition for this week. Quite a step up and everyone did a great job. For Travel Sketching we were taking a good look at one of our old favourites – the English artist David Gentleman. He has some wonderful sketches of parks, gardens and many Victorian style architecture. So our sketchers turned Federation to Victorian and did our […]

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Saturday 5th May, 2018 This week our Intro Sketching classes were learning to layer colour simply and get dimension at the same time. For some of our Intro classes it was the first week so we were looking at shape and page planning. Those first essential ways to see your subject. Without deconstructing the shape of everything around you – somehow the sketch just doesn’t seem to work. Travel Sketching classes were under the influence of Tommy Kane, illustrator and […]

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Saturday 28th April, 2018 We’re off again. First time sketchers have started with our essential ‘how to see’ your subject and already feel relived. They could actually follow their tutors guidance and magic happened on the page. Those who start next week – on May 2 – will do the same. Foe Travel Sketching we will be following the way some of our favourite sketch artists interpret their subjects. We have always enjoyed seeing how others see similar scenes as […]

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