Clare Shepherd
Artist and Teacher
Artist led Art Classes

In the last lesson I asked my students to reduce a landscape image to its simplest shapes - the shapes which describe distance and give...

....drawing the shapes that describe distance and making the drawing from which a painting will evolve. There's no class next Friday so...

...ready for next week's watercolours - wonderful results from Thursday's group.

...landscape drawing - editing the image for a watercolour next week.

...called 'still-life in the context of the room'. I put a large jar with two sticks on each table and asked the students to bring a...

In this lesson I'm asking my students to make a drawing of a landscape specifically for a certain way of working with watercolour next...

...wonderful results working from the soft drawings - and various projects people had brought from home.

...some working on the interpretation of the soft drawings and some catching up with their drawings. Lovely work today.

...with great results from Wednesday's group, including some projects people brought from home. Good work today.

Last week my students made three very different styles of drawing on the same subject. On this lesson I'm asking them to take the second...