TERM 3composing a composition    More or less in the style of!   This term we had a good look at the pictorial elements of grammar necessary for building a strong composition. By studying other artists work we learnt a lot about what their chief considerations were   Point , line, shape, tone and […]

TERM 3 : AUGUST 5th – 24th SEPTEMBER TERM 4:  OCTOBER 21st- 10 th DECEMBER

Recently when I was in Spain- (actually it was far too long ago…seems like a distant memory) Anyway- i did some variations of “Las Meninas” by Velasquez. By variations I mean that i did some studies from the painting without trying to make it look like Velzquez, but more of an investigative nature… To find […]

This term we did some observation exercises involving drapery  and foliage Drawing Drapery is an age old discipline involving well honed observation skill and i was pleased to see that many of you included that new skill into your compositions of foliage. Drawing the foliage was interesting too. Spatial considerations come into prominence with foliage […]

      We started our portraits with a traced image and then the grisaille process As you can see from Amanda Deane’s lovely painting . A well resolved tonal image was then glazed with fine glazes of colour Greg Barbour AnneMartin         Joanne Hammond Jik White Margaret Relph Pam Bell Amarjit […]

Here are some examples of other artists using flowers foliage and fabric in their works….food for thought! Bonnard     Carl Maughan   David Keeling   David Milne   Emily Wolf   Euan Mcleod   Jackie Fahey     Jude Rae Mondrian  

  Having chosen Foliage etc as our subject matter this term, I have been interested in how much more  I am noticing plants and foliage as i walk around Grey Lynn at the moment. Whether it is a skinny Cordyline up against a skinny villa or an amazing spotted Calathea which i found at the […]

In the next term we will get some good observation exercises in Foliage studies , flowers and  a drapery day squeezed in somewhere by request!   We havent really ever studied foliage and thanks to our resident plant person Jo Turner who brought in a cornucopia of interesting plants we now are inspired. With big […]

Angela Hutton           Amarjit       Annette Pearton     Bev Holdsworth     Cynthia Mitchell       David Thompson     Jane Liu Jo Turner         Margaret Neale     Pat Shepheard Judy Gillet     John Eaglen     Jik White     This […]

TERM 1 this coming term we will be having a look at Toss Woolleston’s bravura brushstrokes. Bravura  focuses on the energy of the brushstroke itself  and this approach will give us  more practice with our “fresco brushes” that we used last term. Other artists who used Singer Sargent and Manet, Burchfield and Cezanne     […]