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!

Gillian Drury

Gill's final assessment piece was this free standing zigzag sketchbook inspired by the Spanish town of Cadaques. The pages of the book are graded in height replicating the look of the buildings as they cling to the steep hillside.
Above left: One of the photos of Cadaques that Gill used as a starting point for this set of work. Above right: An aerial view of the sketchbook showing the zigzag construction. Several of the pages have cut edges accentuating the design within them.
Above and right: Details of some of the pages from the book. Gill used collage with hand painted papers together with some hand stitch.
Left and below: Further pages showing collage with drawing.
Right: the architecture of the town's buildings provided a wealth of inspiration. Here the windows with their balconies were explored.
Above and right: Gill's first assessment piece was inspired by a canal side landscape. Often the weather conditions led to some very moody photographs!
Rubbings and collage were used to capture the detail of the textures seen up close.
Left: Layering papers and cutting delicate apertures through was a technique used to create interesting shapes.
Right: Digital manipulation of images was used to suggest the rippled reflections on the water.
Left: Weathered paint surfaces on the canal boats provided some delicate peeling textures and pretty colour schemes.
Right: Gill presented the brief for her project beautifully on top of this photograph.

Left: Paper cutting and folding to suggest the mechanism on the lock.
Left: A rubbing of a PVA glue drawing.
Below: Carefully cut shapes in this page create a lace-like appearance.
Right: Rusty chains were the inspiration for a set of work that explored collage and lacing.
the complementary colour scheme created exciting results.
Above: Fuchsia flowers informed the colour choices in this rubbing. Above right: the computer was used to modify a photograph to create a more painterly look.
Above left: Soft pastels used with a stencil on to watercolour paper. Above right: collage with found papers.
Left: Stencilling using soft pastels to suggest transparency.

Right: This lovely collage uses tissue paper to create subtle texture which is then painted.
Left: Monoprints using acrylic paint with washes over to suggest water.
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© Linda Kemshall 2006