Hannah Tofts Creation

Collecting Plastics

Hannah — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:10:58 +0000

Funny what I find when I’m collecting plastics…

Art on Tuesdays: Wintermix x10

Hannah — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:01:47 +0000

It was almost mutiny; I just had to get the Tuesday Art Team down to the sea (Argyll, West Coast of Scotland, very wild and rural) before Christmas to paint the snow topped lime grass, blackcurrant hills and powder lilac sea…it was freezing, we managed an hour, but oh what colours you couldn’t ever imagine indoors; no thinking, only looking, be zesty!

Another 10 sessions of my Wintermix Art for Advanced Beginners, mostly inside, starting to explore the dreaded ‘perspectives’, trying to learn it without worrying about it really. Difficult to amend drawings I think are already beautifully seen if technically not correct. It’s a filthy dark winter so we might as well stay inside with the curtains drawn…tough drawing sessions; it’s simply practice, lots and lots of it…

Painting+printing+inking Lighthouses

Hannah — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:13:44 +0000

Looking at ways of capturing light beams with the whole local Primary School and their theme: Lighthouses…Lino and polyprint printing was challenging since we are so used to drawing a mark in black, not white, but when each child saw their cut away marks made light they were thrilled; such great results. We mixed Blues in acrylics which was a full on fun, messy and happy memory for all; children don’t get to play enough at school with mixing paint and see there are more colours than the primaries. Courageously I worked with the youngest children with Indian ink and coloured inks on watercolour encouraging splashy soft mark making, with none on the floor. I printed up a limited edition of prints, 5 each per type, per child for 36 children for an exhibition I put up for a day for the school to sell their work; boy did it look professional. Never under present a piece of children’s work however low the budget; the children were so utterly proud!

Hannah’s Art Weekend: for 8

Hannah — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 10:08:17 +0000

2 1/2 Art Days as a workshop for 8 women away from the city: (6 who had done lots, 2 who hadn’t at all). Tutored and run by Hannah on the west coast of Scotland. Hannah’s unique enthusiastic and energetic approach full of visual treats and experiences involves working in the village hall, a barn, by the sea, up hills and around the peninsula with various mediums passionately showing ways of looking. Hannah inspires and motivates everyone regardless of ability teaching vigorous bold and big drawing, pushing your colour palette in acrylics, committed oil pastel sketches, zesty bold colours in chalks, loose un-hairy mark making, no thinking or presuming that sea colour, considered composition, constantly daring you to loosen up, be bolder, play a bit…it’s an uplifting energy of yes you can!

(You have to be flexible; it inevitably rains when you want to be painting outside or the sun comes out when it’s time to go…)

Busy with plastics…

Hannah — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 09:28:09 +0000

A rare glimpse in to my studio…obsessively working on my new plastics book…I’ll keep you posted when the studio gets cleared.

Drawing quickly by the sea

Hannah — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 08:39:59 +0000

Trying to draw once a week, 20 minutes only in oil pastel…collecting unexpected colours

BLOG: Fruit+Vegetable Ceramics

Hannah — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:30:14 +0000

I used to have a huge collection of 1950′s salt and pepper pots, fruit shaped jam pots for the teatime table, fruit baskets and citrus jugs…some disintegrated in the cellar…

BLOG: Book Finds

Hannah — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:09:59 +0000

Lots of books inspire…illustrations or words or a subject: I loved the Ant and Bee books…

BLOG: Curious Plastic Finds

Hannah — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:45:02 +0000

You never know what you will find, what can inspire…

BLOG: Small Food Finds

Hannah — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:42:53 +0000

I always loved styling my dolls house food…I still love to style the scene…