Perspective, as defined by the Encyclopedia Britannica is the “method of graphically depicting three-dimensional objects and spatial...

On the 18th August I was fortunate enough to attend a fashion life drawing session at the V&A in Dundee, being held in conjunction with...

This exercise shifts our focus to organic shapes rather than the man made shapes of exercise 1. I decided to raid my fridge to see if I...

I'm back! I have really struggled to get back on top of my course. I've had a few health issues raise their head, from struggling with my...

Title: Embroidery; The Artist's Mother Artist: Georges Seurat (French, Paris 1859–1891 Paris) Date: 1882–83 Medium: Conté crayon on...

I am SO excited to be part of this project. The idea is that artists submit A5 artworks that are sold at an affordable price for charity...

This sketchbook theme was very interesting. Firstly, I loved the way the initial artist had made the sketchbook. It's made from two...

I have become a bit obsessed with gelli plate printing recently. I had one in my cupboard from years ago after using one on a course,...

I’m so excited to be participating in a sketchbook circle. I am part of the OCA discord group and there are a number of students who are...

I was fortunate to participate in another makers day session on zoom, hosted by Diana Ali. The session focus this time is as “Play”...

Using the same still life set up as the previous task, the objective this time was to use subtractive drawing techniques to pick out...

This blog post is a bit late, as the session took place in May. Diana Ali, a tutor at the OCA as well as an artist, curator and many...

The purpose of this task is to observe how light interacts with more than one object, causing shadows to lay themselves across their...

This task focuses on turning a two dimensional circle into a three dimensional sphere by adding shade, cast by a directional light...

In this exercise, I used an A4 page of rough water colour and an 8B graphite pencil to create a gradient tone from the one material. I...

This is an exercise in generating tonal shades using the same medium and repeated mark making. I used a stick of compressed charcoal and...

The final task in this assignment is to create a body of work utilising the skills I have learned during the previous tasks. This body of...

No ceilidh cat this time. Dan and I went to Glasgow at the weekend and spent an hour at the purrple cat cafe in Glasgow. I foolishly...

This is the second task involving the grater. Ceilidh cat ended up modelling the object for the cover photo this time. I can’t seem to...