At the conclusion of our Online 7823 08 Creative Sketchbook Course, students who have satisfied all the syllabus requirements are awarded a certificate by the awarding body, City & Guilds of London. We would like to offer our congratulations too!

Glen Tandberg

Glen's final assessment piece for the course was this free standing display book inspired by the architecture local to her home. Using a wide range of techniques Glen has recorded aspects of the buildings that have inspired her.
We're sure there are lots of ideas that she'll be able to take further in her new work. Photographs and drawing were the basis for a lot of the pages.
Right: Glen experimented with using the computer to modify images.
Left: More examples of the pages, this time showing some printed motifs.
Right: A montage of source images arranged on a sympathetically painted page.
Left: Glen's first assessment sketchbook documented the journey from her home to the coast.
Right: Pine trees dominated the landscape and became an important motif in the book too.
Left: Glen worked extensively with collage using her own had painted papers to record ideas.
Right: A combination of collage over printing succeeded in capturing the dense wooded layers.
Left: The coastal birds were another important part of the landscape.
Right: A stained glass window design continued the theme of the birds. Here the page is cut and layered with a painting.
Above: Block printing with a repeated tree motif. Right: Further collage ideas.
Left and below left: Soft pastels were used to good effect on black paper
Above: Images on acetate are used to build up transparent layers in a sketchbook.

Left: A colourwheel from early in the course.
Right: Stencilling using bird motifs.
Left: Exploring effects with painted washes.
Right: A simple collage using painted papers in a lovely range of colours.
Above: Another painted paper.
Right: Pages with shaped edges are added to the sketchbook.
Above: Exploring the form of a fuchsia with developments using the computer, right.
Above and right: One of Glen's sketches in pencil.
Below: Monoprinting using acrylic paint.
Above and below: Pages from Glen's sketchbooks showing explorations with stencilling.
Left: Collage combined with oil and pastel wash.

Below: A motif is identified from a source image by tracing a selected area.
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