Clare Shepherd
Artist and Teacher
Artist led Art Classes

...and after nice lunch on the airport island (Lantau), Jack took me on the cable car up to the Lantau giant Buddha. The flight had been re-routed from it's normal path (over Taiwan) to go across China mainland and down to Hong Kong - airforce manoeuvers over Taiwan - I had wondered what route we'd take after hearing the news, I'd feared delays!

I've arrived with a stinking cold but thankfully after a few days here It's beginning to subside...but as it's impolite to blow your nose in public here I've had to be creative about how and where! Day one, George and Namiki were at work and Isaac at school which left me to my own devises, and walking quietly around for much of the day with my camera (and a face mask) was definitely for the best. Since then, we've eaten out at few places, I've joined one of George's English c

A quick note to say I've been locked out of my emails while away (a joined email account with Simon - and I think BT are confused that the account holders are in different parts of the world) so I won't be able to email further details about this workshop until (probably) Jan. 12th as that's when Simon returns to UK. Most of what you need to know is here in this post. Looking forward to being back in Blighty and seeing you all then. Happy New Year!! In this workshop my studen

My students created wonderful work today, beginning with the Planet and the boiled egg exercises, the task being to create a seamless edge around both but with changing relationships between the subject and its background (ie. light against dark - dark against light). They moved onto drawing the scrunched paper, bringing the notions learned from the exercises to the scrunched paper drawing. As ever, some of my students brough their own projects from home and were able to work

I shall be asking my students to bring a boiled egg for a very good reason - they can eat it afterwards if they like! We're looking at edges, light against dark and dark against light and the good old planet exercise before embarking on a drawing of some scrunched up paper. Drawing with pencil. Pimperne Village Hall, 10am – 4pm. You’ll need good soft pencils, a pencil sharpener, a good eraser and good cartridge paper.  You’ll also need a few watercolours and a watercolour bru

Today was a chance to experiment with wax resist and loose watercolour onto a wet page. Pen or soft pencil was added later to find some definition. Some students did their own thing which is welcomed alongside the class. Wonderful work emerged and it was a great way to spend a drizzly day.

You'll choose your subject - I chose to do a still-life but it could be an image or flowers & stems from which you choose to work. This is a day about mixing very specific media, the initial wax resist allows for a lovely looseness with the watercolour. The black pen brings some precision to the loose watercolour. Sunday workshop, November 9 th  – wax resist, watercolour and black pen – subject of your own choice (I’ve used a still-life). Pimperne Village Hall, 10am – 4pm. Yo

Some followed the lesson and others brought their own projects from home. On a wet and windy day it was great to be in a lovely big, warm hall working on landscape negotiations with charcoal.