Art Classes: 10  weeks : 3hrs for now advanced beginners!…adults who had all said they were ‘too scared to draw’, had been told at school they couldn’t paint. Block 4 : working as much as the weather would allow outside in autumn on the west coast of Scotland. Mixing acrylic blues on a hilltop was tricky with the shifting light…paint what you see, not what you think blue to be…

…it was rarely dry, so sadly we couldn’t capture the ‘expressive’ in our autumn views…we improvised by moving to others houses, my studio and a farm barn concentrating on composition, sketching, loose drawing, splashy inks and graphic images to print…