The studio was full, with students searching for innovative ways to re-interpret the still life arrangement in the centre of the studio. It was amazing to see how different everyone’s drawing looked even though we were all seeing the same objects. Have a look at the gallery and you’ll see just how individual and personal […]
A thoroughly enjoyable weekend of outdoor drawing, learning perspective and creating colourful collage images. We explored two styles of using collage and even made our own self-coloured tissue paper to use. This weekend’s group of students wanted to get 2 things from attending the course. Firstly, to brush up on their knowledge and skills in […]
An amazing weekend of creativity and fun. New ideas and techniques, experimentation and of course lots of tactile and visual textures. The group of students on this course had varying amounts of creative experience – this being the very first time for some. Seeing the results at the end of the weekend just demonstrates why […]
Hi everyone I’m very excited to be part of the Old, New, and Digital Too design team. A wonderful new mixed-media challenge blog developed and run by Mo, a good friend of mine. I’ve been teaching and making art for many years but never been involved in something quite like this! So I’m looking forward […]
An amazing weekend of creativity and fun. New ideas and techniques, experimentation and observational drawing using new media and old. Most students came along on this Creative Sketchbooks course with a brand new sketchbook full of pristine white pages not quite knowing what was in store for them over the 2 days. However, one student […]
The Cityscapes + aperture 2-day weekend course will focus on drawing in and around the grade 2 listed building that is our home – Hope Mill. Full of Victorian old world charm it provides inspiring views of buildings, new and old, from the many windows. This will be your inspiration for 2 days of collage […]
If you’ve invested in quality pencils please take care of them if you want them to perform their best when drawing and sketching. Here are my top tips for drawing and sketching with pencil, and how to care for them. Never drop your pencils. The graphite in the pencils can be soft and shatters […]
The Painting with textures 2-day course will show you how to create real relief and visual textures with paint and drawing materials. This taster workshop (23.11.2014) offered a little glimpse of what students would learn on the full 2-day course. What did the students think? “Mind bending, mind expanding, mind blowing. Great demonstrations of unorthodox but […]
