What a wonderful place, breathtaking views of the Pyrenees, great studio,fabulous food, wonderful weather and excellent company. What more could you want? ...
Workshops
French holiday
'Fabulous Fruits'
Another excellent group attended this weeks three day workshop with students coming from Qatar and Denmark and just up the road! All worked hard and we tackled a lot of techniques. Shiny black currants, bilberries with bloom on them, compound fruits like blackberries, complex colour mixes like the plums, hairs, leaves and a final day on composition working with small bunches of Merlot grapes from our greenhouse. The following are my...
'Graphite over Underpainting'
Hard working students and a delightful venue with beautiful gardens in rural Gloucesteshire for a two-day workshop on graphite with underpainting.First a quick outline drawing of this wonderful old sunflower seed head.Then I applied colour using a combination of coloured pencil and pastel pencil which I...
Leaves Workshop
We all love drawing leaves so here we all are in Wiltshire honing our skills.While they are all beavering away on their leaves I am adding some to this drawing of the developing apples.One more day of leaves and then a rapid tidy up and on...