Vector 4

So here are 'Vector 4' performing in all their glory, except Ted is hidden behind Jack. You can just see his leg sticking out; he's on drums. Ben, far right, is on base guitar and Sam next to Ben is on lead guitar. It was a Christmas concert in aid of charity, hence the silly hats! Watch out for the forthcoming album!

Jack's band- Vector Four

Jack's charity concert at school, so an important sketch of Jack in his band called, 'Vortex 4'. Tomorrow I'll do one of the whole band.

Seascape

More experiments with the students. I was encouraging them to produce an A2 sheet with lots of thumbnail experiments utilising different techniques and processes. We used acrylics, inks, scratched into surfaces, created different grounds and drew or printed on top and layered and glazed colours on top of one another. It was good fun and this is just one of my thumbnails. I have put the others on the studio wall as part of a display.

Mixed media Landscape

I have been doing some workshops in an optional session running after college hours for students wanting to catch up with work or experiment with more techniques. So here is some mixed media work; we were creating grounds of collage and using dip pen and ink to draw on top.

Student ceramic work

This is a bit of a cheat, but this student has been producing these lovely sketches on small ceramic tiles, influenced by hieroglyphics of course, but with her own take on it. I would love to take some of my past sketches posted on the blog and transform them on to ceramic tiles like this, or in to a print technique like woodcut, linocut or stencil screen print. These students don't know how lucky they are with whole days to just experiment with processes and techniques, with great facilities at their fingertips. 

A walk with the Boys

A Sunday afternoon walk with Sam and Jack. It really was lovely on the Heath, cold but bright and sunny. The two boys do make me laugh, saying they hate one another but couldn't do without each other.

Just Hols and me

I drew a lovely sketch of Holly as we sat on the sofa then fell asleep! 

I am glad to report Sam did well and came around half way down the pack out of 140 runners. An important race since it was against the whole of the country! It was in Bolton , so quite a long way from us. Unfortunately Sam has been injured and could not train so he did really well; he was disappointed to not do 'his usual' run since he had of course lost some fitness.