Our Online Fundamental Art Skills course with live tuition has proved to be a great success with the students who really enjoyed creating experimental portraits using a variety of expressive lines and marks. My students studied various portrait styles and looked at a number of modern Portrait artists. These portraits were inspired by the work of some contemporary artists.  I am very proud of their portraits and so happy to…

Magic Wool Art and Craft Studio continues to celebrate its students’ achievement. I would like to share with you some beautiful pen and wash sketches that my learners from the online Introduction to Landscape course did. They really enjoyed exploring this technique while drawing the old buildings. The houses are full of character, and the expressive marks and washes added something special to the ‘personality’ of each house. I am…

This lovely experimental work was created by my learners from the online Introduction to Landscape course with live tuition. During the course we studied how to draw expressive skies and explored graphite, fineliners and pastels! Some very interesting effects were achieved and techniques used here. I am very pleased with my learners’ results! You are welcome to view their efforts and write some comments. If you wish to find out…

There are some places available on the online Fundamental Art Skills for complete beginners course starting on Monday 12th of September. It is a 10-week Interactive online course with live tuition via zoom. The course will run every Monday 6pm-9pm . If you always wanted to learn how to draw and paint and never had courage to start, this will be an opportunity for you to realize your dream and…

I really enjoyed teaching the wool painting workshop to Hagley art club last Saturday. What a great group of artists! They were such a pleasure to work with! So creative and enthusiastic! They really embraced the new techniques of painting with loose wool fibres and produced some fantastic art work! Thank you for your warm welcome, Ladies! I hope to see you again soon. You are welcome to watch the video taken…

These beautiful drawings of the glasses were produced by my students at the online Fundamental Art Skills course level 2. They managed to show the reflections and the shiny surface of glass so well using a variety of different tones and coloured pencils. You can almost feel the fragile glass they are made of. Fantastic achievement by my hard -working learners. I am looking forward to seeing them again in…

Every Monday  6pm-9pm for 10 weeks, starting Monday 12th of September. Cost £16 per week. This is a unique opportunity for Art and Craft lovers, beginners, and people with some experience in Art and Craft, to receive a proper Art education in the traditional methods by a professional artist and tutor Raya Brown. Raya’s teaching is based on classical Art education with emphasis on the importance of developing solid traditional…

These wonderful portraits of elderly ladies are the highlights from our last Introduction to Portraits online course with live tuition. The students carefully studied the old peoples’ faces and looked at the portraits of elderly people created by other artists. They managed to convey some feelings and emotions in their work. You can see very good experiments with graphite, pastels and mixed media. The colours are beautiful in their pastel…

These dog portraits recently created by my students in pastels are amazing! Each dog has its own personality. The texture of  fur is painted with really good skill! The students carefully used pastels to create the right colours and tones. My learners really enjoyed working on these pastel portraits using chalks and pastel pencils. Layering and blending techniques were used really well. Anyone who has some art experience is welcome…