3 BEAUTIFUL PICTURES LIFETIME ACCESS EXPERT TUITION
For the first time, join Pat in her garden, on a wonderful journey of discovery and learning. The course features three fantastic pictures, professionally filmed and edited. Each picture is split up into bite-sized sections,
so you can follow along at a pace to suit you.
PICTURE ONE - WANDERING THE GARDEN
7 BITE-SIZED SECTIONS 66 MINUTE DURATION
Here, I’m working on handmade khadi paper: a real favourite! And I’m trying to keep a feeling of freshness and breath with light-touch lines using different tools. You can see my recording of the marks, the intensities and the gentleness each makes, on the panel, top right. The most luscious black of all, in there, is a fairly recent addition and I loves it to bits: a Japanese KAKIMORI dip pen. I have 2! One for black. One for colour. One with a brass nib. One nib steel. They draw seemingly endlessly with just one deep dip into the ink: not at all like ordinary dip pens! And at the flick of a wrist they can switch from a broad calligraphic line to a fine one…so like a FUDE but better!
First I drew the delicacy of the just-waning Japanese anemones, fragile in their beauty. These took years to flower but are a joy now, particularly, as darkness falls, white against the darkness. I love wandering out there of an evening to just watch them shining out of the shadowy black of the sycamore… almost glowing
I wandered into the house next, to our little 8-apple-tree orchard at the front. I wanted, this time, to try to capture the blowziness of the pink lavateria. And, grinning, remembering….I was so chilled and in the zone by then that my fingers almost trailed the leaves and stems and they just appeared!
Finally it was a single white allium: a surprise. Planted as a bulb in 2012, in memory of my late husband, Julian. Brought as a gift to his funeral. It had never flowered: until now, until us doing this. How could we leave it out?
PICTURE TWO - Cornus & Buddleia
11 BITE-SIZED SECTIONS 65 MINUTE DURATION
A fascinating, light-filled dark-and-pale-shapes sketch this time. Painted and drawn from the sycamore-shaded lawn looking through the branches. Earlier this year, this semi-circle of CORNUS with the white picket fencing behind ( inspired by my many trips to the USA!) had grown so dense it had become heavy, tangled and dark. With grateful help and focussed trimming it was all sorted! Lots of light now, an interesting interplay of dark shapes, picket fencing in slight shadow and a fluttering of leaves. There’s a whole curve of this, with roses and buddleia, too. This is just a snippet! Unusually for me, Viviva ColorSheets came into play with here. So easy and fuss-free. Love them but rarely use them. No pre-pencil drawing for the fence. I just drew with a dagger brush and water and dropped paint in, letting it run. The dark trunks and branches were done slightly differently. After realising, on film, that with black it wasnt quite working as it should ( scary on-the-spot moment!!) I tried outlining the trunk and branches in black then dropping water in. Voila! Whew…. The larger leaves I painted with Viviva, like the fence: water then paint dropped in. The itsy-bits drawn line leaves were with a gold Mitsubishi Signo. The black leaves and stems at the base grounded it all. The lettering was last of all. No pencil . No drawing out. I just went for it! A wonderful, if decidedly challenging session!
PICTURE THREE - DRAWING IN THE GARDEN
14 BITE-SIZED SECTIONS 98 MINUTE DURATION
What a difference for this 3rd one! Back to the bottom of the garden again but this time, drawing on a handmade speckled mulberry paper background. Always a challenge this paper, as it’s SO fragile. Hold it up to the light and you can see through it . Press too hard and you make holes! But it delivers, in spades: takes everything you throw at it and I adore it. No question! I drew a fair bit with my Kakimori, this time. On Mulberry it runs deliciously, creating depth and interest and with one twist: eureka! fine lines too and training stems and seed heads. My trusty white Mitsubishi Signo came in, later, like the cavalry, to bring zing and light to the darkness. And just a touch of yellow and pink helped bring the Japanese anemones to life as well. To finish: a word about the aquilegia seed heads in the centre: not dominant, just quietly there in the shadows. Because that’s how they are in my garden: elegant and free-flowering with a sensitivity and with minds of their own. They self-seed everywhere, blue and white, and I just let them be: can’t bear to ever pull them up. I’m the same with foxgloves. That’s a cottage garden for you. It allows for a certain wantonness . I guess that’s why I love it …and it’s peace too ❤
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