Mini-workshop

On Sunday morning there was a chance to do something different with another tutor. I chose to instantly become an abstract artist. Sue started us off tearing shapes out of colourful magazine pages and glueing them onto cartridge paper.Then we coloured in the empty spaces with oil pastels -- preferably Sennelier; we had a chance to compare various brands. No point in stinting on art materials - using them gives such pleasure. Time was short and we worked furiously, despite yet another day of heat.Then we cut up our colourful sheets of paper, and arranged them singly or in groups on sketchbook pages. I'd been discouraged at how gloomy my "purple" page turned out, but cutting it up utterly transformed it. And the other page had some good outcomes too.This is such a fun thing to do -- restores the spirit. Next time, hollow circles ...