Clare Shepherd
Artist and Teacher
Artist led Art Classes

It's been a busy week mostly taking Felicity to all her classes - including nursery school, Montessori, swimming, football, coding and...

Pouring with rain in Hong Kong but still warm enough to wear sandals.

Some of the work still in progress, a lovely day of making working drawings which were then translated into the paintings you see here....

I'm almost home from my amazing road trip! Here is the outline plan of the workshop day below. This workshop day is about the working...

I've mostly been sketching with my Daniel Smith paints. I've realised I need at last two weeks here! Today we're off to the Talisker...

Storm Ashley was impressive and luckily mostly blew at night. The weather has been fantastically changeable! Driving horizontal rain,...

Two days getting here (Skye) one night in Penrith and the second in Cluanie, here are pictures of sunrise and moon-set in Cluanie, a...

Keeping it focused, keeping information to a minimum, holding onto the horizon line to anchor the painting...using line initially to help...

In this workshop we're working with the idea that watercolour is a medium of shape rather than line and that we build up tones in layers....

We were looking at ways of dismantling the subject and bringing elements and aspects of the objects up onto the surface of the page - we...