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…

Some wonderful charcoal portraits were produced by my students at the Introduction to Portrait online art course. The charcoal was a new medium for many of them, and they gradually discovered some very good qualities of this material. Many of them liked the freedom of expression using the charcoal and the ability to make changes quickly using this medium. Also, the charcoal allowed them to achieve great tonal gradations and…

You can tell how much these people like dogs by looking at their artwork! These successful sketches and long term drawings were created by my students. What a variety of different styles and techniques! I am so pleased with their achievement. My online fundamental art skills course via zoom has recently finished, and I am so happy to share my learners’ efforts with you. I would like to wish my…