Just back from Singapore - and have just begun posting the Singapore diary, so this one may fudge the chronology - anyhow...I have just had an enjoyable afternoon with Oxford Scribes and one of my favourite Maestros - Adolf Bernd.Participants - please forgive me, but I should have put your names next to your beautiful little capital letters as I photographed them and I didn't have my act together. However, I think you'll agree that this is a lovely montage of your work. (I also hope you are all … [Read more...]

Jen's mother - various experiments with different techniques The photograph transferring went very well indeed, although we found that the originals needed to have a high contrast of light and darks for a good result using "Quick off" - a type of thinners, and acrylic matt medium. The pictures below on a silk-cotton mix were Quick-off transfers from good quality "toner" photocopies. There is a softness and ethereal quality that is diffiuclt to simulate in Photoshop.   Work by … [Read more...]

I was delighted with the work that everyone produced at the workshop. I know that when everyone walked in to do a watercolour workshop exploring translucency and they saw the Gothic exemplars on the desk, their hearts must have dropped. But of course, take away the strong contrasts, keep the rhythms and abstract textura effect and it's a wonderful alphabet to work with. Mary, Alison and BillWe began with abstracts. To have a large stretched sheet of paper, yummy paints and to be given … [Read more...]

Another lemon by Su. I feel she has really caught the essence of the lemon - simple transluscent strokes and exciting colours.Share|| … [Read more...]

Our aim in this artist's group was to explore watercolour techniques using a limited palette of transparent washes, and shape and form of a piece fo fruit - in this case a lemon. (This workshop has a different format for calligraphers)Lois - detail of abstract free-paintingCarole - detail of abstract of  free -paintingSue - detail of abstract fo free paintingMaggie - detail of abstract of free paintingAnd here are the lemons!Maggie, Su, Carole and LoisShare|| … [Read more...]