Week 5: 21 February 2019

Another great evening of hard work and just reward. We are now more focused on our individual aims and projects. The wide dynamic range of ideas and compositions is inspiring.

Andy: excellent composition (e.g. strong diagonal) and closely coloured palette with good tone contrast.  

Catherine: very good start with all the tones getting to the correct darkness. This will enable to light blue edges to shine. Keep working the lightest blues and greens into the petals.

Caroline: excellently observed and executed study. 

Ella: beautifully captured tone with the right type of soft edges to shapes where the light turns. Be patient and stay focused like this as it will reward you immeasurably.

Graeme: wonderful composition. that creates a strength that seems appropriate to the musician. Like the use of diagonals - helped by the cut of the guitar - but used well in your design.

Jed: a terrific completion of this deceptively quiet study. Well observed subtle tone shifts and nicely controlled techique give the feather the right feel of weightlessness 

Jeff: a terrific painting with clever subtle coloured tones. This is a great step forward in achievement. 

Waseem: really good start to the painting. Great dark tones in the green background which will help the brightly coloured flower to stand out really well in contrast. 

Yvonne: fabulously bold design and a deceptively simple palette of the strongest of complementary colours.  You must continue along this line again sometime (size, scale, simple, bold colour).

Yvonne: a lovely "quiet" study that looks like it could be the start of a really good painting or drawing. Be interesting to see how you use the background. Be bold and brave.