Gilly Marklew watercolour artist and tutor

Wednesday, 27 June 2012

Gauging colour and proportions in my wed watercolour class

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Despite this looking like a dull day today, it was a balmy 23 . C, and hardly a breath of wind, & no direct sunlight, which made for ea...

Gauging correct angles and proportions ( Drawing class )

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My drawing class on tuesday was designed to measure angles and proportions accurately, and transfer these to paper.  We started by drawin...
Wednesday, 20 June 2012

Measuring angles class

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Both the drawing and wednesday watercolour classes were out-doors this week due to the nice weather, we measured angles and proportions. ...

Workshop I attended on Sunday.....

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On Sunday I attended a workshop organized by the Society of east anglian watercolour artist. The workshop was hosted by Thomas Plunket, w...
Thursday, 14 June 2012

This week's watercolour classes

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I have translated the Drawing class exercise ( previous post ) to the watercolour classes also. My watercolour class Learners were faced ...
Tuesday, 12 June 2012

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Just before half term I emailed all my learners for feedback on what went well for them in classes, and what areas could do with re visit...
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GILLIAN MARKLEW
Gillian Marklew BA, CDS, EAWS Gillian Marklew graduated from Leeds Polytechnic with a degree in graphic design in 1981, and embarked on a career as a freelance illustrator,1st designing the information boards at Arkwrights mill museum. Gilly then moved on to work in an advertsing agency back in Leeds until the early 90's, before becoming a full time children's book illustrator illustrating 40 books with most big publishers. in 2004 Gilly became an adult education tutor and still runs regular classes in watercolour and drawing, in and around Cambridge. In 2009 that Gilly began painting watercolours for open exhibitions, and won most popular painting award 2 seasons in a row, at the Cambridge drawing society. She has won several awards since including the RWS, the RI, and the SEAW. Gilly teaches Watercolour Painting and Drawing to adult learners at several colleges in the Cambridge area. For details on courses etc please go to website http://www.goodworks.myzen.co.uk/GillyMarklew/Site/Home.html
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