Clare Shepherd
Artist and Teacher
Artist led Art Classes

...paintings/pastels/mixed media from their working sketches. Some work still in progress.

A wonderful mix of work from Wednesday's group.

...work in progress, discovering whether or not the drawings have what's needed for the painting. Wonderful beginnings from Tuesday's group.

In this lesson I'm asking my students to put away the images they worked from last week and refer only to the drawings they made in the...

..based on landscape images. Making working drawings ready for painting next week.

...wonderful studies from landscape images from which they'll make paintings next week. Lovely work.

...working drawings for landscape painting. They are figuring out what mark-making information helps them to know what they'll put into...

Looking at landscape, making working drawings from which to make paintings next week. Making visual 'notes' using a variety of marks....

Van Gogh was a master of making drawings which were full of the information he needed in order from which he could make a painting. In...

We had a lovely breezy sunny day among days either side of drizzle, wind and grey skies! We'll be back at class on the week beginning...