By Melissa Pierce Murray

In the final session of the series: Modelling the Head in Clay, we look at how to form the features: eyes, ears, mouth. We look at ways to finish and embellish the form using hair, clothing or inventing horns. In the class we talked about how the muscles attach to the bones, and how the skin smoothes over the surfaces.

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AccessArt is a UK Charity and we believe everyone has the right to be creative. AccessArt provides inspiration to help us all reach our creative potential.

Resources created by painter Hester Berry, which aim to introduce some basic drawing and painting concepts to primary-aged children and their teachers.

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Shape

Hester explains how seeing shapes objectively can help our drawing skills.

Colour

Simple, progressive exercises to explore colour mixing in a dynamic way.

Tone

Hester explains how we can use tone in drawing and painting to help describe form, atmosphere, and context.

Portrait

Hester shares simple exercises to kick start drawing portraits.

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Mastering colour mixing

This resource is based on methods shared during an AccessArt InSET session for primary school teachers at New Hall School, Chelmsford, to ultimately enable their pupils to develop colour skills. Teachers explored using their intuition and experience to mix primary colours, creating coloured swatches that matched the colours of spring flowers, whilst comparing painting mediums.