Small Landscapes on Canvas

Colourful abstract using tempera and oil pastel to good effect

Good  colour combinations creating an evening atmosphere

Surely a 21st century impressionist!

Dramatic & intense colours

Good use of complementary colours

Subtle & interesting sky in a sunset seascape

Japanese Inspired Aquarelle Drawings

Critters Inspired by Flanimals

Wool, pipe-cleaners, wire, pompoms, googly-eyes..............

Papier-mache Masks

Masks made by pressing extra thick aluminium foil over face and gluing newspaper and kitchen roll over then painting, and adding 'hair'

A skillful paint job

A punk robot?

Surreal

Sinister yet decorative

Paintings inspired by Gillian Ayres' work

Work Made at Susan's Summer Art Club 2012

Ceramic pot, carefully slab-built and modelled using flax paper clay, bisque-fired and then painted with tempera paint

'Bird' pot with an intricately modelled & painted handle

'Bird' pot

'Bird' pot with tree-shaped handle

Large beaked bird pot

'Peacok' pot with gold painted beak

'Bird with remarkably straight worm' pot

Fused glass tree,beach and sea

Glossy stained glass fused to create an attractive piece to hang in a window or on a wall, with interesting bubbles trapped inside the glass during the fusing process.

A calm seascape painted in pastel tempera & acrylic on canvas

A fun seascape in tempera & acrylic paint on canvas

Tempera & acrylic painting on canvas on cardboard using brush and palette knife: 'The Bass Rock'

Portraits

I printed another profile portrait in black outline, although some printed in a nice shade of sepia, a happy accident with our aging printer.I was going to repeat the exercise with the children tracing with carbon paper but as the prints resembled beautifully shaded line drawings I didn't want them spoiled. I mounted the prints onto black paper and told the children to add elements of themselves....coloured outlines, favourite things, pets, hobbies... little drawings glued round the portrait and overlapping its edges into the black.Last term we had discussed Chagall and his obsession with imagery from his own childhood, I pointed out that they were experiencing childhood when everything seems more very vivid.They were quite inspired, excited and produced some brilliant images.