Christine Dear’s Blog

Pen & Wash – Street Scene

August 21st, 2013, Posted in Christine Dear's Blog
Pen & Wash – Street Scene

May 2013: Three stages of my piece of Pen & Wash artwork created during Jake Winkle’s workshop organised by our Fareham Art Group.  Thanks to Jake, who instructed us step by step in producing this continental street scene; using ink drawing first, and then adding the colour washes.  It was fascinating to see that although […]

Clay Dishes Workshop

August 21st, 2013, Posted in Christine Dear's Blog
Clay Dishes Workshop

  April 2013: Here you can see I tried my hand at making hump and slump clay dishes on a workshop run by Lyn Gallagher.  Fareham Art Group organised this workshop and it was great fun – Hump Slump Drop and Plop techniques were the name of the game, but I only attempted the two!  […]

Barbara Hepworth drawings

May 21st, 2013, Posted in Christine Dear's Blog
Barbara Hepworth drawings

Exhibition of Hospital drawings and paintings by Barbara Hepworth – worth a visit!  Hurry, exhibition ends on 2nd June 2013 at Chichester!  View at the Pallant House Gallery, Chichester.  check out their website. Ken and I visited it a few weeks back and found this exhibition fascinating. Her beautiful drawings with studies of the hands […]