Landscape Painting: A Collection of Resources by Hester Berry

In this collection of resources on landscape, artist Hester Berry encourages “looking and discovering, browsing and daydreaming”. Hester discusses the work of other landscape artists, both historical and contemporary and encourages you to go out and record your impressions and experiences of the landscape in all its forms: “urban scenes, the country-side, inner-city green spaces and even the sky”.

The series begins with suggestions for how to keep a sketchbook followed by exercises in drawing and painting.

We hope that these exciting resources will inspire you to experiment with materials and techniques and enable you to discover your own visual language for drawing and painting the landscape.

Introduction to Landscape by Hester Berry

This introduction to landscape painting is an exercise in looking and discovering, browsing and daydreaming.

Landscape Painting: Tone in the Landscape

In this post Hester Berry explores tone as a crucial aspect of landscape drawing and painting.

Landscape Painting: Plein Air Painting

Plein Air painting is the practice of painting outside, normally in front of one’s subject.

Landscape Painting: Colour in the Landscape

Hester Berry shows how working with colour can be broken down, simplified and approached in a pragmatic way.

landscape Painting: Expressive mark Making

Practice and hone technical skills, use of tone and colour, observation and time spent in the landscape.

Arts and Minds: Expressive Monoprinting on a Big Scale

Arts and Minds: Drawing for Mindfulness

Arts and Minds: Feeling Through Drawing

Arts and Minds: Asemic Writing and Invented Text

Arts and Minds: A ‘Heart-Work’ Conversation

Sketchbook Exercise: Drawing Brushes with Charcoal

Introduction to Landscape by Hester Berry

Thoughtful Drawing and Mark Making in the Armoury at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Teachers Explore ‘Line and Shape’ at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge with AccessArt

See all the blog posts from AccessArt’s InSET in collaboration with the Fitzwilliam Museum. Find top Museum Education practice with practical, hands on learning in Fine Art disciplines including: drawing, printmaking, sketchbooks, collage and sculpture.

Thoughtful Mark Making

Look at this post to see how pupils aged 6 to 10 respond to a similar mark making exercise led by Paula Briggs.

Drawing Projects for Children by Paula Briggs

Published by Black Dog Publishing London, Drawing Projects for Children is a beautifully illustrated collection of activities that will expand the mark making abilities and imagination of children of all ages, and help fuel their passion for drawing. The book features a collection of drawing exercises and projects taken from the AccessArt website, presenting them in a beautiful and inspirational format.

Filling a Sketchbook: Ruler Drawings

Collage and Construction

50 Minutes Looking and Sketching Autumn Leaves

Monoprinting with Oil Pastel and Carbon Copy Paper

Paula Briggs introduces children in her drawing class , aged 6 – 9 to drawing fossils and carbon paper as a medium for monoprinting.

Teenagers Write A Letter, A Postcard, A Poem or A Narrative in Invented Text

What is a Canvas? Exploration Activity

Teenagers Use Touch to Draw and Explore Small Objects

“Feely Drawings” or Drawing by Touch – a 5 minute drawing exercise

This short icebreaker or warm up exercise, led by Paula Briggs at the Drawing Workshops for ages 6 to 10, encourages the children to relax into their drawing session.