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The first year http://theframersforum.com/viewtopic.ph ... 07&p=75794 was graphite and pencil, this year is still pencil but colour - although the pencils are the type that can be blended with water.

This is the project for the first term - a teapot on a chequered tea towel which is pinned up behind it and illumimated from above, it needs some more work and there's been no water blending (which will make the colours more solid) yet, but I'm quite pleased with it.

Well done John

Adding colour will add a whole new dimension and a whole new learning curve

It looks very good, it looks like a fantastic course.

Glass, doing my head in! This is 3 sessions in and it'll probably take another 5 or 6 to finish, so what you're looking at is exploratory, getting a feel - there's a fancy pourer to add on the top and a whole lot of colour and balance, but you get the gist, a carafe on a mirror, with a cork bung that happened to be passing!
After this we'll be challenged with other nasty things, but not whole things, just small areas of things, hard things, soft things, shiney things, dull things .... and then it's on to our final project - absolutely anything we like, we decide; not teecher. I'm thinking architecture, maybe a big old church door with long rusty hinges, all set in flint, lots of different textures ........... but no glass!

or some big buxom woman!!!!

you can explain to pat it for learning )

I have a hi res photo of the most amazing church door with tons of texture, if you want it for reference.

Thanks, would give some inspiration at the very least.

At the end of June we'll be exhibiting our work, not just the finished projects but our progress, from our first attempts with no help on day one, through, stage by stage, to each finished project.

It was this exhibtion that inspired me to sign up for this course, which I'd always known about because teecher is a customer ..... but I hadn't realised what she could achieve. She'd not showcased her students' work in this way before; she had a book that you could put your name in for the course "So, you think you can't draw" but unfortunately I turned up on the last day of the exhibtion .... she was on her second book and it was almost full, I waited 3 years to get on the course and only got on this one becasue someone dropped out!

The exhibtion is in our village church, which, like most village churches is, like ... really old! So I thought it might be nice to have its door, or something, as my final project. Something you could look at and then step outside and see for real.

After today's session. Next week - add water - no, not inside the carafe, to the drawing, or parts of it.

Well that was scary! Pretty much done now.

Well here's two sessions in - in pastel pencil - to our local church door, well, one of its doors and just detail of the top right. Just worrying about shape, size, position and tone for now, the pinks aren't that pink and the blues aren't that blue, etc. Will have to find out what the geezer's name is, probably one of the disciples/saints - am calling him "Isiah" for now as the eyes aren't right, one Isiah than the other But at least you get the impression that he's further forward.

This is taking some time! Should have been finished today but we were on our own as our teacher had to take her MIL to hospital. Another session and it'll be done, if not I'll finish it at home. More work on the arch and bottom right, might do a bit more of the door itself - or not - and then some strengthening/adjustment here and there etc.

4-6 July we will be exhibiting our work, 13 of us (two classes) from our first attempts with no guidance, step by step through to finished projects. The exhibition will be just behind this door! (The church was modernised a few years ago, all the old pews ripped out and replaced with chairs that can be cleared away for concerts, exhibitions, etc)

A couple of other students' stuff .....
Audrey has some way to go because coffee was split on the first attempt! Breadfruit - A1

Easy to see your talents improving all the time and that last pencil piece is fantastic!! Keep it up sire