CLARE CARSWELL STUDIO
In April I am always inspired by the glorious
tulips in the garden.
In this class I will show you how to paint them using watercolour, and how then to build
colour and vibrancy with
Derwent Inktense blocks and pencils.
This is a fun process that is ideal
for beginners. It is also suitable for those
who have some experience, but who
want to learn new techniques.
Materials and paper provided.
Refreshments included.
£40 booked in advance.
TULIPS!
Drawing & painting class
Student work
Tuesday 28th April 2 - 5
What a lovely class to teach !
We had a sunny morning and began by sketching the bulbs outdoors.
We then tried techniques with water colours and soluble crayons to make colourful pictures inspired by them.
We ended the session by looking at each other's work and marvelling at how different everyone's pictures are.
I am looking forward to teaching this class again next week !
OIL PASTEL LANDSCAPES
The mid summer landscape is a wonderful palette of vivid greens and yellows.
In this oil pastel landscape class we explored different ways of capturing it with oil pastel and graphite sticks or pencils.
We had a fun session discovering what a versatile and generous medium oil pastel is. Everyone was surprised by this !
Student Work
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WATERCOLOUR SWEET PEAS
Sweet peas are lovely to draw and in this class I teach various methods of capturing their delicate beauty. We work with pencil, charcoal and water colour to make a series of studies of them. When possible we draw in the garden as well as in the studio.
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Demonstration charcoal
Student work
PAINTING POPPIES
At last it is summer and the ART JOY classes follow the garden as it grows. Last week we explored the poppy and celebrated its vivid presence in our lives.
The students worked in pencil for observation drawing in the garden, then in charcoal to express the delicacy of the poppy and finally in paint and chalk to capture the vibrancy of the flowers.
Student work Pencil, ink acrylic, chalk
Student work
Demonstration work Pencil, ink acrylic, chalk
Student work Pencil, ink acrylic, chalk
Student work Garden border painting, acrylic and chalk
Student work Garden border painting, acrylic and chalk
Student work in progress Garden border painting, acrylic and chalk
Student work Garden border painting, acrylic and chalk
PAINTING ALLIUM & HONEYSUCKLE
What a pleasure it is to be able to work outside ! Students have loved drawing and painting the early summer border filled with allium and euphorbia and overhung by fragrant honeysuckle.
Starting with observational drawing in pencil, they made paintings in acrylic paint embellished with chalks.
