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Fine Art

Field Notes: Lesson 7

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Lesson 7. Strategies for collecting information and recording ideas as an aid to memory.

SEE Publications: Exploring enterprise and employability in art and design

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With Colour: Lesson 6

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Lesson 6. The most complex form of drawing. Starting with a pencil outline, the drawing is developed with a brush in clearly defined layers. 

The Edge of the Pencil: Lesson 2

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Lesson 2. We use tone, light, dark and the shades in-between to create illusions of volume and depth.

What's The Point Of Art School? The Highlights

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At a moment when art and design education is being potentially threatened at school level

Toned Paper: Lesson 3

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Lesson 3. How toned paper can be used to provide the mid-tone in a drawing, which records where light and shade fall as a means of picturing an object.

Creativity: Lesson 8

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Lesson 8. Invention!

The Elements of Drawing

Video Of 'There a Ghost in my House', Paint Club at Tate Britain, March 7th 2014

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Ann-Marie James, Andrew Cranston and Dougal McKenzie discuss their choice of paintings in the new Tate Britain displays, in relation to their own painting practice, chaired by Dr Jo Melvi

Brian Chalkley's "Dawn in Wonderland and Other Stories" - book launch and panel discussion

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Panel discussion which took place at the book launch event for Brian Dawn Chalkley's Dawn in Wonderland and Other Stories.

A brief Intoduction to 'Paint Club at Tate Britain', Friday 7th March, 1pm

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Thanks to everyone for the tremendous response to this event.