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About the artist:-
Robyn grew up in New Zealand and moved to the UK with her family in the early 1980’s and after primary teaching for a number of years, chose to pursue her love of art and design on her own. Alongside the development of her own work she worked part time for Children’s University in Portsmouth creating and running Saturday and after school workshops throughout the city for kids of all ages. Robhn was then asked to teach a class at the Spring in Havant and was there for 11 years. She moved to Emsworth Community Centre last year. Robyn has also been asked to run workshops for various art groups throughout the county. Her main mediums are soft pastel and watercolour with a bit of wood carving thrown in. Robyn is really looking forward to sharing the joy of soft pastels with her love of wildflowers though the seasons.
Information about the day :-
We will be focusing on observation of the finer details and structure of a variety of winter wildflower/flower seed heads and grasses using a combination of soft pastel and pastel pencils. There will be demonstrations of techniques throughout the day as and when required with time for experimentation and exploration building up to the final piece with everyone creating their own unique winter seed head meadow..
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Materials to bring:-
- A selection of squared off soft half pastels (Inscribe are a good quality at a reasonable price). I have plenty for borrowing.
- Pastel pencils in greys, blues, indigo, purple, white, cream – nothing too bright.
- A good pencil sharpener. I have a selection.
- A3 pastel paper in white/off white or 140 gsm multi media cartridge paper in white. (Seawhites of Brighton is good quality and a reasonable price).
- A table easel if you have one.
- A lightweight backing board.
- Masking tape
- Baby wipes
- Apron
- Table cover or newspaper.
- Seed heads you may have found on dog walks, in the garden or hedgerows.
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