Student Exhibition

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!

Kitty Johnstone

Kitty's final assessment piece was a zig zag construction sketchbook using the theme of Tower House - Tower Block. In her book Kitty chose to contrast and compare these two styles of architecture.

Above: General photographs of the book open at different pages.
Left: Another of Kitty's books that contributed to the planning of this assessment.

Above: Part of the inspirational collection of images that Kitty worked from during this project.

Left: One page from Kitty's book showing her pen sketches.

Above and left: Printing and collage.

Above and left: More images from Kitty's collection and some pastel work.

Above and right: Kitty's first assessment was a project inspired by the theme of landscape.

Kitty chose to use inspiration from different locations and imaginary landscapes.

Her book featured pages using techniques such as drawing, painting, collage, rubbings and printing together with some fold out and pp up sections.
Below: Some of Kitty's lovely work with colour.

Above: A colourwheel worked in pastel (left) and found papers (right).

Above: Some examples of Kitty's experiments with using letterforms as a motif with both pastels and printing techniques.

Above: Kitty used polystyrene to make a printing block.

Above right: The final multiple layered print from the hand carved block.

Above: Samples demonstrating the use of collage with pastel work and monoprinting.

Above and left: Kitty selected a goose motif from one of her own photographs to serve as the inspiration for these pages.Technqiues include stencilling and spraying.

Left and right: Some example of Kitty's drawings combined with techniques for colouring the background page.

Left and right: Explorations with cut edges and fold out sections.

Below left: Sample page showing soft pastel used with a stencil.
Below right: A montage of work with glue as a drawing medium.

Below: Using tracing to generate motifs.

Kitty has also completed 7822-10 Patchwork and Quilting. Click HERE to see her exhibition. Please use your browser's BACK button to return to the previous page.