Essential Art Vocabulary

International Women's Day - Annie's story, art pioneer (subtitled video)

Wednesday 28 February 2018

snow. Snow. SNOW! No class tomorrow.

As you may have guessed the weather means there will be NO Drawing, Painting and Mixed Media class tomorrow evening. Stay safe and warm folks and don't go out unless you really need (or want!) to. Meanwhile click the image below and turn your speakers up:



Friday 23 February 2018

Week 5: half-time!

NEW at 1st March: Yvonne has been busy at home on her beach scenes for her triptych project. See the top two photos below.

This week saw us reach the half-way point in the term. February is turning into the "bug"month with many people struggling with colds and flu - staff and learners alike. Still we carry on and as you can see below stories in the triptychs are coming through - in many guises.

Tonight we started to look at the detail and how this can teach each of us to see where we are getting our pictures the way we envisaged and also where we are not so sure. The power of looking at details using a simple framing device (used in class) is how it trains our eye and our brain to read our work. It helps us to see how we are using:

  • composition
  • design
  • shape
  • proportion
  • perspective
  • form
  • colour
  • texture
  • mood
  • atmosphere

We will be doing more "details" evaluative work later in the term. See some of these details below.

Hope those of us who aren't feeling so well have a speedy recovery.














Thursday 8 February 2018

Week 4: Triptychs

Part of our group continued developing their triptychs whilst others focused on basic technique and technical skills activities. Next week is half term so there is no class. We return on 22nd February (week 5) when we will all be focused on our triptychs as a whole group. Here is this weeks wonderful work showing a rich breadth of interest from pure colour marks on hand made coloured grounds to intriguing narrative paintings with mystical animals and people, stories about speed and rich, moody dark palette landscapes. A fantastic mix!


















Saturday 3 February 2018

Week 3: Triptychs

Three weeks in and some lovely work emerging. Good blending techniques and palettes / colours with very interesting themes for panels. Here is this week's work: