Cambridge Art Classes

One of my students loves Pontillism. I love the way he has made quite an ordinary photo come alive. Painted in oils on canvas.

First session with a new student. Lovely drawings of my amaryllis in full bloom and a candle I bought at Camden Lock many years ago.

Each term I take my students to one of the wonderful museums in Cambridge to draw, and afterwards we go for a cuppa in a cafe close by. This is my Thursday group at the Museum of Classical Archaeology. None of them had visited the museum before and they loved drawing there.
Unfortunately it was term time so all the local cafes were full, so we sat in she garden of the Granta Pub with a up of tea/coffee. A wonderful way to spend a morning.

When the palettes are really lovely after my students have been painting!
This week my classes have been mixing paints to make colour charts that they can refer to if they need a specific colour. Beautiful in their own right I photographed them before I cleaned them up for the next group.

Had a lovely morning printing and painting on Thursday. My students always impress me with their ideas and techniques.
The pictures include one printing block, two prints and a painting.

Every term I take my art classes out to one of the wonderful museums in Cambridge, to draw. This is my Wednesday class at the Museum of Classical Archaeology.
There is nothing like drawing the human figure from some plaster casts of statues from around 420BC. A wonderful museum where the models never move!

Here are some of the paintings my Thursday group have made. An excellent start to the term.

A few of the drawings made in the first session with my Wednesday group. Charcoal, pastel, pencil and pen. A great start where we get to know each other and plan what we would like to learn in the 10 sessions.

There is one space left on the Wednesday art course which starts on 1st October from 10am to 12.30pm.
We will cover drawing with pencils, charcoal and pastels, painting in watercolour and acrylics and one session we will sketch at one of the museums in Cambridge.
The course lasts ten weeks and costs £250 which includes ALL materials. With only four in a class everyone gets lets of attention. Want to visit before you decide? Telephone 01223 500909.

Lovely morning drawing in my garden with one of my students. He is getting back to drawing for the first time since he did his art A level! We sat side by side drawing the old urn using pencil, ink pen and watercolour pencils