I did a weekend course at Hawkwood College, just down the road from me, with Gizella Warburton at the end of October, entitled Colour, Mark and Composition. I didn’t know what to expect, but as I had had to cancel other courses I had booked earlier in the year, I thought it would help me...
The following are samples of work I produced during five days of working with Jo Dixon. We started bu making backgrounds, mainly on tissue paper and tissuetex, using acrylic paints and brusho inks, using stencils and blocks and rubbing over various textues. These are some of athe blocks and stencils I made. These 2 lino...
Apples – I had only worked on the right-hand page so felt it needed something more. The heap of apples is stencilled in using pastels. I used a stamp made from funky foam for the ‘branches and an expanded foam stamp for the leaves. I also used some gesso on the top part of...
This final module introduces the techniques of stencilling, the use of pastels, pockets, extensions as well as ideas of how to put everything together. After a wash of colour on the page, I used my provençal jug as a pocket to hold the card cutouts I used for rubbings. I like the way the lettering...
This module focusses on printing. Leaf border Here I added a border of leaves printed using compressed sponge to a previous painting of beech leaves. I think the border adds more interest to what was quite a stark page. Leaf shapes I cut positive and negative shapes out of the compressed sponge, printing on...