Peer critiques - some useful words

Thursday 27 March 2014

Photos from our iPads


The photos of still-life set-ups taken in class on the iPads are now in the resources page opposite "Resource Images for Term 2 (Jan 2014)". These are for Jan, Shirley and Marie.

Wednesday 26 March 2014

Main Project Tuesday Group: a landscape scene

We are now into out final project of term, a full landscape scene. The great starts can be seen below.

For the newer members of the group we started a separate landscape project to learn some key watercolour skills ready for next term. We will see how they are getting on in next week's blog.

James (preliminary study) 
Norrey
Joyce
Dorothy
Margaret
Alan
Elizabeth
A painting brought in  by Margaret
Sharon
Sharon
Maurice
Tom
Tom

Mini Projects 6 (landscape) & 7 (still-life). Monday Group.

We produced some amazing landscape paintings in project 6 and these are shown below. Tonight some decided to continue working on their landscapes whilst others started their final project 7 "still-life".
We invested some time in understanding how to set up and look at the subject of still-life as well as how a narrative can be part of the painting. We will have images of the still-life project next week.
For those who took photos on our iPads as part of their preparations - your photos will be added soon so you can work between lessons and in class next week.

Connie
Ruth
Joan
Shirley 
Maria
Marie

Thursday 20 March 2014

Mini Project 5 Tuesday Group: a landscape scene

Tonight we started on our main landscape scene. We have been building up to this all term with mini project studies of the various elements in a landscape. Some great landscapes are on the way!

James
Fiona
Joyce
Margaret
Margaret
Norrey
Tom
Tom
Alan
Elizabeth

Mini Project 6 Monday Group: a landscape scene

We started on our main landscape scene tonight. Some very good details in every picture. We also did a little exercise in pairs then as a whole group to find those little gems or moments in each others paintings. Fascinating and we discovered some amazing "finds" in every painting.

Patricia
Melanie
Ruth
Joan
Joan
Jan
Shirley

Friday 14 March 2014

Mini Project 4 Tuesday Group: water

We completed our water mini project tonight. Some good experimentation has led to fantastic results in the studies seen below. There is a strong commitment to exploring the medium which will pay huge dividends over the coming months.

James
James
Jane
Lauren
Lauren
Stephen
Joyce
Joyce
Dorothy
Norrey


Mini Project 5 Monday Group: A landscape scene

We have started our main landscape scene painting. Learners have chosen a range of types of landscape - sea, countryside, mountains, sky. The sequential nature of our mini projects this term means we are more equipped to tackle the full scene. Very interesting painterly qualities can be seen in each of the works below. And everyone's skills are growing.

Marie
Marie
Maria
Connie
Ruth
Joan
Patricia
Patricia
Melanie
Melanie
Shirley