Sally Hancox

I always loved the illustrator Jan Pienowski’s work with marbling and silhouettes. This summer at art camp we made some illustrations in his style. 

I recently finished a lovely commission which was to paint a bookshelf with dangly plants onto a kitchen wall. The clients chose some book titles and let their friends make suggestions too. As they have kindles/e-readers they don’t have a need for many books in their house anymore.

Using coloured masking tape to mark out where the plants and books would be. 

This week we set up three tables of objects to draw. We talked about

• looking carefully at the objects
• selecting the bits we want to draw
• drawing the object from ‘my’ point of view
• how to paint a gradient
• mixing the colour we want

This picture at the bottom is great especially as the student is only 4 or 5, hasn’t started year one of school yet!

I painted something. It felt good. ひさしぶりになんか書いた。良かった。