Workshop summery
Workshop 17th August 2019 10am - 4pm
Changed the venue to Ventnor, PI AU
A small class, which in my view, is always a plus! The day was great, for a small group, plenty of learning and discussion.
The fabulous students enjoyed a day of learning something new with working on claybord for Colin and furthering his techniques with his scratchboad; for Gail getting more time to prefect her technique on scratch and for Patricia - an opportunity to learn something new.
In summary, Gail did a brilliant job with her parrot, which showed fabulous potential.
All commenced with the techniques of working with working with a craft knife - and perfecting it's flexibility and brilliance with achieving fantastic tonal results. Although both Colin and Gail had worked on scratchboard previously; Colin has shown a depth of pushing the boundaries and getting excellent results. Gail is a natural and more time to get her work in - she has a beautiful style and would made a fantastic ISSA active member! Patricia, this is the first time she has tried this, and did very well considering it was something out of norm for her and the great thing is that she is prepared to learn the skills and work hard to achieve these. So the pressure is on! Colin has wonderful potential and his work is so interesting and beautifully drawn, all he needs to do is more scratching and learning the tonal - techniques - and keeping the strokes light. I am so keep to see his results with the claybord - it was looking pretty exciting!
We all will be taking the next step and over the next few weeks, we are expecting some incredible artworks......will keep you all posted!
....Jan Lowe
Changed the venue to Ventnor, PI AU
A small class, which in my view, is always a plus! The day was great, for a small group, plenty of learning and discussion.
The fabulous students enjoyed a day of learning something new with working on claybord for Colin and furthering his techniques with his scratchboad; for Gail getting more time to prefect her technique on scratch and for Patricia - an opportunity to learn something new.
In summary, Gail did a brilliant job with her parrot, which showed fabulous potential.
All commenced with the techniques of working with working with a craft knife - and perfecting it's flexibility and brilliance with achieving fantastic tonal results. Although both Colin and Gail had worked on scratchboard previously; Colin has shown a depth of pushing the boundaries and getting excellent results. Gail is a natural and more time to get her work in - she has a beautiful style and would made a fantastic ISSA active member! Patricia, this is the first time she has tried this, and did very well considering it was something out of norm for her and the great thing is that she is prepared to learn the skills and work hard to achieve these. So the pressure is on! Colin has wonderful potential and his work is so interesting and beautifully drawn, all he needs to do is more scratching and learning the tonal - techniques - and keeping the strokes light. I am so keep to see his results with the claybord - it was looking pretty exciting!
We all will be taking the next step and over the next few weeks, we are expecting some incredible artworks......will keep you all posted!
....Jan Lowe
Workshop on 21 July 2018
Summary of Scratchboard 1 Day Workshop
Sponsored by ASPI, Cowes Victoria
Beautiful day and another workshop sponsored by the ASPI on Phillip Island; sadly two students were unable to attend, however, the five that did attend were very responsive and enjoyed creating some beautiful new scratchboard artworks. Having a small group is really beneficial and more time was given to each student, so it is a win win all around. All of the attendee were wonderful drawers - so that made life easy. Although the intention was to introduce Claybord to our students, only Carol was game enough to give it a try. We will do that in our next Workshop.
Art is to enjoy, and not being familiar with a product can take away the fun; however Claybord is incredible, so they are all looking forward to giving it a try on the sample pieces!
Shown above (L to R) is Jill with her fish - Jill's second time in the workshop and is really doing very well. Gail, her first time, Gail is a portrait artist and she has an excellent reputation with her magnificent paintings of dogs. Well her subject was a beautiful retriever - and it was just so well done, a natural. Gay likes things to be different and enjoys sculptural work, this piece is from an old Asian artifact - really interesting and Gay was a student last year, and has done very well. Marian, first time student, this lady is so passionate about scratchboard it was a delight and so wonderful to see this in her work, she is a professional artist and acrylic is her main medium; to see her doing scratchboard was great; she loves it. Carol did two pieces one on the Ampersand black and then she used the Claybord - new to scratchboard, but I enjoyed her attitude to try the Claybord - it is harder, but good on Carol for giving it ago. We all finished with big smiles and some stunning artworks, Brilliant work team.
Review on 31st August
We had a two hour session a few weeks later and reviewed progress and talked about the next steps in placing vanish and what vanish to use etc.
It was a relaxed few hours over coffee/tea and interesting fresh cakes!
I am delighted to see that Gail has done a stunning piece of her grand daughter - it was really beautiful, and on the same board she was scratching a beautiful old stone building - beautiful affect.
Marian's was progressing very well, and trying out different tools to find the one that best suits; her patience was being tested, however her work was giving her wonderful results. Getting a tool that suits your style and hand can be a slow process.
Gay's work was growing too.
Very proud of this magical team. Well done.
Jan Lowe, Tutor, August 2018
Summary of Scratchboard 1 Day Workshop
Sponsored by ASPI, Cowes Victoria
Beautiful day and another workshop sponsored by the ASPI on Phillip Island; sadly two students were unable to attend, however, the five that did attend were very responsive and enjoyed creating some beautiful new scratchboard artworks. Having a small group is really beneficial and more time was given to each student, so it is a win win all around. All of the attendee were wonderful drawers - so that made life easy. Although the intention was to introduce Claybord to our students, only Carol was game enough to give it a try. We will do that in our next Workshop.
Art is to enjoy, and not being familiar with a product can take away the fun; however Claybord is incredible, so they are all looking forward to giving it a try on the sample pieces!
Shown above (L to R) is Jill with her fish - Jill's second time in the workshop and is really doing very well. Gail, her first time, Gail is a portrait artist and she has an excellent reputation with her magnificent paintings of dogs. Well her subject was a beautiful retriever - and it was just so well done, a natural. Gay likes things to be different and enjoys sculptural work, this piece is from an old Asian artifact - really interesting and Gay was a student last year, and has done very well. Marian, first time student, this lady is so passionate about scratchboard it was a delight and so wonderful to see this in her work, she is a professional artist and acrylic is her main medium; to see her doing scratchboard was great; she loves it. Carol did two pieces one on the Ampersand black and then she used the Claybord - new to scratchboard, but I enjoyed her attitude to try the Claybord - it is harder, but good on Carol for giving it ago. We all finished with big smiles and some stunning artworks, Brilliant work team.
Review on 31st August
We had a two hour session a few weeks later and reviewed progress and talked about the next steps in placing vanish and what vanish to use etc.
It was a relaxed few hours over coffee/tea and interesting fresh cakes!
I am delighted to see that Gail has done a stunning piece of her grand daughter - it was really beautiful, and on the same board she was scratching a beautiful old stone building - beautiful affect.
Marian's was progressing very well, and trying out different tools to find the one that best suits; her patience was being tested, however her work was giving her wonderful results. Getting a tool that suits your style and hand can be a slow process.
Gay's work was growing too.
Very proud of this magical team. Well done.
Jan Lowe, Tutor, August 2018
Workshops in 2017
One Day Scratchboard Workshop
with Jan Lowe: Cowes Victoria : May 20, 2017 One day workshop.
Sponsored by the Art Society of Phillip Island Inc.
One Day Scratchboard Workshop
with Jan Lowe: Cowes Victoria : May 20, 2017 One day workshop.
Sponsored by the Art Society of Phillip Island Inc.
This W/S was with a group of freshmen as only one person who had worked on Scratchboard before (Colin). Colin has really got into SB and worked hard and the result are very pleasing and I am sure that Colin will be very proud. It is great to see him progress as he has been a student at other workshops with me, his work has progressed very well.
The rest of the group were all new, and a couple were non drawers - which was a challenge, but not impossible. It turned out to be a wonderful day, and thanks to John for providing a big supply of sausages for our students, so generous. Jill and Gay provided a natural sense for Scratchboard and I hope that they will continue with further instruction, their work showed real promise and skill. At the end of the day, the scratchboard world has more students. Although John left the class early due to work commitments, is keen to learn more, so generally the students just loved it.
What a delightful day, everyone did a different subject and some even managed to do two subjects, which really showed a keen eye and a excellent skill of drawing and excellent planning. Jill with her stunning Siamese and her second work was of a peacock - striking work. Gay's fish was just amazing, and her colour management was great. Di's beautiful gum flowers was lovely, Colin's horse is coming along great and so is Froney's Currawong bird, the shapes and line was really working.
Stratchboard is definitely a medium that requires a good level of drawing, and three of the students did find it a little frustrating, but did produce an image that they should be proud of and were keen to progress further.
Special thanks to Di Edwards for arranging the event and for ASPI being hosts, hope to have another one mid next year. The location in the cultural centre in Cowes proved to be a good venue, giving plenty of light and good location, lots of parking, walking distance from cafes etc.
Really enjoyable
Jan Lowe, Tutor
The rest of the group were all new, and a couple were non drawers - which was a challenge, but not impossible. It turned out to be a wonderful day, and thanks to John for providing a big supply of sausages for our students, so generous. Jill and Gay provided a natural sense for Scratchboard and I hope that they will continue with further instruction, their work showed real promise and skill. At the end of the day, the scratchboard world has more students. Although John left the class early due to work commitments, is keen to learn more, so generally the students just loved it.
What a delightful day, everyone did a different subject and some even managed to do two subjects, which really showed a keen eye and a excellent skill of drawing and excellent planning. Jill with her stunning Siamese and her second work was of a peacock - striking work. Gay's fish was just amazing, and her colour management was great. Di's beautiful gum flowers was lovely, Colin's horse is coming along great and so is Froney's Currawong bird, the shapes and line was really working.
Stratchboard is definitely a medium that requires a good level of drawing, and three of the students did find it a little frustrating, but did produce an image that they should be proud of and were keen to progress further.
Special thanks to Di Edwards for arranging the event and for ASPI being hosts, hope to have another one mid next year. The location in the cultural centre in Cowes proved to be a good venue, giving plenty of light and good location, lots of parking, walking distance from cafes etc.
Really enjoyable
Jan Lowe, Tutor
Portrait Workshop with David Wells - Pastels
An amazing experience with a brilliant artist, thank you David - 2015.
