Individual goals - King's Place - 5th August 2014

PAT W. - Try more of the method you came up with last time.
Step 1 - draw what you see - remember the thinking FIRST - what's important to YOU.
Step 2 - turn away and draw/paint again, from memory.  Allow creative inventions to happen.

ELIZABETH  - rich, fluid studies in watercolour.  These are not preparatory sketches.  These are what they are, for better or for worse.  Then work from memory.

JILL - draw/paint all the surroundings, and leave the figure blank - negative spaces.  You still need to draw them with all this sort of attention to detail of the gesture, but you fill in their context only.

MAGGIE - look for strange juxtapositions of objects/scale/context, and weave them together with your magic touch!

GERALD - build on your new-found use of the thumbnails, leading to studies with very refined use of colour.

PENNY -  less is more.  Less precise spelling out, more dreaming!  Drawings where there are more possibilities for dreaming.  Your precision is still there, to back these spaces up.

PAT K. - Thumnails first, and be aware of the proportions you achieve. Then lovely fluid watercolours, or pastel studies, but sticking to the decisions in your thumbnails.

STEPHANIE - keep on working at being more aware of what YOU want to say about a subject.  Simple and pithy! The essence in 2 or 3 words.  Then draw/paint that!

JEAN - last ones we saw had the most brilliant use of space and line.  The lines taut and carved, and holding everything else together.  You were also stepping away from the obvious 'Jean-ism' of a central, vertical motif, which is worth exploring further.

JANE - So long since we've seen you.  Last time I| asked you to produce a palette of MIXED colours.  Anything but an identifiable colour!  The more mysterious, the better.  THEN, work with those!

ERNA - Last time you were using the location of King's Place to recall personal events and narrative.  See if you can build on this.

PAM - I'm really not sure whether you will want to participate, and we all hope you are feeling stronger. If you are able to do anything (even at home), just get your drawing skills back up to their wonderful fluid strength, and send those in.

I hope that's everyone - good luck and enjoy!