Ammonite painting
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This series of paintings came about after I had drawn the ammonites. To form the 'nest' of these fossils I initially used fabric transfer crayons to make a tracing from the 3D objects and then ironed of the transfer tracing, then I painted over the images with watercolour paints the white highlights were added last, some of the fine drawing work I carried out with a mapping pen.
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june james
In the 1950’s I attended a life drawing evening class at Kingston Art school, & Saturday mornings did Fashion Drawing at Wimbledon Art school. I failed the 11+. You could have another go at 13 – not to go to the Grammar school ! Instead it gave you a choice – girls could go to Pitman’s College and…
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