Chriswoodartist : The Month
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View ArticleBeyond Form
life drawing, students, animation, computer games a collage of imagery combining a couple of photos and a vector image designed to create a feeling of mystery, memory, space, form and function. I will...
View ArticleST THOMAS’S CATHEDRAL OLD PORTSMOUTH UK
All photographs Copyright http://www.chriswoodartist.com All rights reserved 18.11.13 I’ll add to these later – ENJOY !
View ArticleSpitsticker, Scorper & Graver
I have just taken delivery of three new tools. One of the joys about getting older is that you not only get to chose your birthday presents but you pay for them and order them too – which I did from T...
View ArticleExperimental Life Drawing Workshops etc
Thursday 12th December was my last day of teaching the animators and computer games students at the University for this academic year. I have got some marking plus the possibility of some further odd...
View ArticleSwimming Lessons with The Medusa
I began writing this post two weeks ago and it was supposed to recount the tales of one week of mystery and mayhem in the Wood household. However, one week has quickly become Two ! Week one began...
View Articlelife drawing, CAVE ART, MODERNISM and BEYOND
The following text began as the INTRODUCTION to session 10 of my EXPERIMENTAL LIFE DRAWING WORKSHOP to be held in the WEA OMEGA CENTRE in PORTSMOUTH 08.07.2014 A key element of drawing begins with an...
View Article3 prints, developers and an abandonned “workmate”.
“The Ship Anson’ “The Hard” Portsmouth UK ©www.chriswoodartist.com All rights reserved This week, in between organising next terms teaching and doing a drawing for the Fareham Art Trail, I am...
View ArticleGROUNDCOURSE : drawing and painting SKILLS of the MASTERS
Chriswoodartist’s “GROUNDCOURSE drawing and painting SKILLS of the MASTERS” : at THE WEA OMEGA CENTRE, PORTSMOUTH. WEEK 5 :STILL LIFE : Drawing in Colour. The course has proved very popular and is now...
View ArticleHALF TERM BLUES & copper sulphate
As a retired art teacher I should be enjoying one very long half term. Sadly my pension is so small that I cannot afford to enjoy a life that isn’t regulated by terms and a constant round of chasing my...
View ArticleDouble Dutch, 2 Doctors & 3 drawing classes
The Eastern Solent at 09.40am 24.11.14 : the ipad over-cooked this shot and it decided it should be at ISO 64 at f/2.4. if i could have overridden this setting I would but then my mission was to teach...
View ArticleDouble Take !
© Chris N Wood All rights reserved 2014 I was surfing a Facebook the other day and discovered something amusing ! I was stopped in my tracks by a photo that I thought I’d taken but after closer...
View ArticleST THOMAS’S CATHEDRAL OLD PORTSMOUTH UK
All photographs Copyright http://www.chriswoodartist.com All rights reserved 18.11.13 I’ll add to these later – ENJOY !
View ArticleGravy Trains and falling leaves
It’s been far too long since my last blog but life has an irritating habit of getting in the way of writing for pleasure ! On the South Coast, it’s officially autumn, leaves on the trees are turning...
View ArticlePerspective, Composition & Portsmouth
Week 7 and my Computer Games Students have begun the rocky road to understanding the complexities of perspective and composition. As a self directed study (homework) they were asked to go out and do a...
View Article“Nature Transformed” / “A Level” art for beginners
Over the last year, for an hour and a half each week, I have been privately tutoring an “A Level” Fine Art student together his younger sister. I began my academic career in a sixth form college,...
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