1. Take a virtual tour or visit a gallery online Take a virtual tour or visit a gallery online catalogue. The National Gallery Natural History Museum Guggenheim Museum British Museum Musee d’Orsay Rijksmuseum Van Gogh Museum Picasso Museum MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) Louvre Museum 2. Drawing and Painting student's continuation project. Choose a book title (you could visit West Sussex e-library catalogue) look at the blurb and the cover. How could you design a new cover for th

I’m dabbling with YouTube at the moment. My ‘IT/ Media department’ is currently working on a little video opening title and close for my videos. As some of you know my IT department is mainly run by me and when it comes to a crunch I subcontract to my partner. Who is not the speediest at the best of times, but seems even slower when I want help! Don’t tell him I said that or he may completely down tools and I’ve got some washing up I want done later! I realised that last year

#March meet the maker; set up by @joannehawker in 2016, this is a yearly event on Instagram. Follow the hashtag (*see below) to see loads of

I’ve been writing a series of blogs this year about using your sketchbook en plein air. The first post I talked about fostering a sketching regime – sketching on a regular basis to develop your observational skills. In the last post I talked about my sketching equipment and ran through some personal choices for good mark making on the go. Through these blogs I have used the lovely Seawhite concertina sketchbooks. They have been around for a while, but this year was the first

Several month back I was invited for the second year to produce a piece of work for The National Brain Appeal. Each year they encourage artists to contribute a piece of work for an exhibition in London’s OXO Gallery, Tower Warf, South Bank. This year’s theme was Making Light Work. I asked students in my Drawing and Painting classes if they would be interested in joining me to create their own piece of work, which would be anonymously sold during the exhibition to raise funds