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“Nature Transformed” / “A Level” art for beginners

Over the last year, for an hour and a half each week, I have been privately tutoring an “A Level” Fine Art student together his younger sister. I began my academic career in a sixth form college, where I taught

/ April 17, 2018 / Leave a comment

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“Nature Transformed” / “A Level” art for beginners

Over the last year, for an hour and a half each week, I have been privately tutoring an “A Level” Fine Art student together his younger sister. I began my academic career in a sixth form college, where I taught

/ April 17, 2018 / Leave a comment

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Perspective, Composition & Portsmouth

Week 7 and my Computer Games Students have begun the rocky road to understanding the complexities of perspective and composition. As a self directed study (homework) they were asked to go out and do a photo shoot around Portsmouth. The

/ November 13, 2017 / Leave a comment

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Perspective, Composition & Portsmouth

Week 7 and my Computer Games Students have begun the rocky road to understanding the complexities of perspective and composition. As a self directed study (homework) they were asked to go out and do a photo shoot around Portsmouth. The

/ November 13, 2017 / Leave a comment

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life drawing, CAVE ART, MODERNISM and BEYOND

The following text began as the INTRODUCTION to session 10 of my EXPERIMENTAL LIFE DRAWING WORKSHOP to be held in the WEA OMEGA CENTRE in PORTSMOUTH 08.07.2014 A key element of drawing begins with an understanding of structure, whether it’s

/ July 6, 2014 / 2 comments

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life drawing, CAVE ART, MODERNISM and BEYOND

The following text began as the INTRODUCTION to session 10 of my EXPERIMENTAL LIFE DRAWING WORKSHOP to be held in the WEA OMEGA CENTRE in PORTSMOUTH 08.07.2014 A key element of drawing begins with an understanding of structure, whether it’s

/ July 6, 2014 / 2 comments

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Swimming Lessons with The Medusa

I began writing this post two weeks ago and it was supposed to recount the tales of one week of mystery and mayhem in the Wood household. However, one week has quickly become Two ! Week one began frantically finishing

/ March 15, 2014 / Leave a comment

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Swimming Lessons with The Medusa

I began writing this post two weeks ago and it was supposed to recount the tales of one week of mystery and mayhem in the Wood household. However, one week has quickly become Two ! Week one began frantically finishing

/ March 15, 2014 / Leave a comment

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Spitsticker, Scorper & Graver

I have just taken delivery of three new tools. One of the joys about getting older is that you not only get to chose your birthday presents but you pay for them and order them too – which I did

/ November 21, 2013 / Leave a comment

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Spitsticker, Scorper & Graver

I have just taken delivery of three new tools. One of the joys about getting older is that you not only get to chose your birthday presents but you pay for them and order them too – which I did

/ November 21, 2013 / Leave a comment