Month: January 2011

Penguin Design Award, Puffin Children’s Prize and Penguin Adult Prize

We are now accepting entries to the Penguin Design Award, Puffin Children’s Prize and Penguin Adult Prize. To submit your entry please go to www.penguindesignentries.co.uk The closing date for the competition is 5pm on Friday 15th April. For full details of the…

United Kingdom Coloured Pencil Society

The United Kingdom Coloured Pencil Society celebrates its tenth anniversary with a major event from 19th September to 1st October 2011. ‘A Celebration of Creative Art’ will include the 10th UKCPS Open International Exhibition (of pure coloured pencil work) a…

A Graphic Design Student’s Experiences…

Recipes From The Cookery Book Of The Last Kandyan Dynasty One of our Graphic Design students has been working on a fantastic project to help collate a cookery book  from old manuscripts used by the last Royal Dynasty in Sri Lanka. From…

Coloured Pencil Tree

This is a superb study of a tree in coloured pencil, one of our students completed this for their course and Julie Douglas, the coloured pencil tutor, was thrilled with the rendering, the colours and the use of the pencil…

Children’s Drawing Course

One of my students on the Children’s Drawing Course sent their work in for me to assess and I was thrilled with this still life drawing of perfume spray bottles. Can you see how cleverly this young artist has created…

Children’s Illustration – Fiery Fred

Maggy, the tutor for the Children book Illustration course, alerted me to this wonderful piece from a student who has illustrated Fiery Fred very successfully. I hope you all like it too!