Oil Painting Workshop

This morning we had Paula  Taaffe take us for an oil painting workshop, sooo interesting to see how oil differs to acrylic paint as I'm a complete novice when it comes to the technical side of painting but it was great fun and I learnt a lot in the few hours we had. Here are... Continue Reading →

Photography Workshop – Black and White – Scale

Hi there, this afternoon we had the first of two workshops for photography. The aim of this workshop was to take multiple photo's, choose four and import to Photoshop, change to black and white and decide whether to crop and change contrast to produce an interesting image mainly highlighting scale. After this we had to... Continue Reading →

Change of plans

Today we had to change plans as the schedule was disrupted due to the dreaded FLU! So instead of a lecture and workshop on camera obscura we had the pleasure of a presentation on performance art movies as compiled by Nigel Roberts and a presentation on composition by Paula Taaffe. Both presentations were great although... Continue Reading →

Painting with Paula

Today I reconnected with my painting, I have been doing a little bit at home with my miniatures but it's great to be doing some exercises at school! The following are two pieces I did today, they didn't take too long to do but I treated it as a warm up, a getting to know... Continue Reading →

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