Wednesday, 14 September 2011

Long Tuesday!!

What a long day yesterday turned out to be.  No tables in the meeting hall, and I´ve had to cancel my workshop on Friday because of yet another fiesta in the village.... 12 disappointed students.  Now I´m having difficulty re-scheduling as all the Fridays are booked up for the next 5 weeks!!

Had great fun going through our Design Group assignment, my sketchbook is almost up to date now.  Just a few photos to be printed and added.  It´s amazing how much we´ve achieved in the year we have been working on the exercises.  Other VSS group members looked at the sketchbook and were very impressed!!  I´m quite proud of myself, it´s the first time I have done anything like this and followed it through from start to finish.  Only five more exercises, hope to finish by the end of the year.

                        

                     

Aren´t these autumn leaves amazing.  I spotted them a couple of weeks ago early one morning in the garden, and was fascinated by the colours and how evenly the leaflets are all marked .  Within a day they had changed again.   At the time I was looking for inspiration for a homework assignment in our design course.  Unfortunately these leaves didn´t meet the homework criteria but  I must be able to do something creative with this inspiration at another time!

Today I aim to stretch some lining paper, which should dry ultra-quick in this heat.  Then to see what I remember about watercolour washes which I learned from my wonderfully talented artist Dad and Mum during my recent UK trip!




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