When I was at Art college I was very interested in using the bright colours of sweets when painting my pictures.  I was definitely influenced by the artist teachers who were there.  Mr Cadenhead was a landscape painter and used to go up mountains with his canvases and paints and sit for a day painting.  Mr Grant Clifford also painted and depicted in a bright way the symbols of society in his large paintings. Another artist used sculpture and photography to record  images.

Recently I watched Johnnie Dep in Alice In Wonderland and noticed he had a scarf with all-sorts on it and it looked great.  This morning then is a throwback to what used to help my creativity flow - images of sweets.

I did this sketch today to show how easy it is to change the background in an image. I suppose these sketches could be used to make fabric items such as cushions or even handbags. Anya Hindmarch's handbag designers are influenced by the bright sweet wrappers of Qualiy Street! 

 

Recently I was at a Special School and was working with S1 pupils and was really looking forward to Graphic Art.  I was pleasantly surprised to find that the graphic art was done on the computer using the paint programme.  The theme was hearts and it was gratifying to see how confident the pupils were after making their pictures.

This programme does enable many lovely images to be made quickly and you can change the outline of a shape and use shapes and lines.  I like the paintfill facility !  So I copied what the pupils did last week just to show how simple it can be to create images.

I always liked the shapes of hearts which I saw on playing cards.