Donna Holmes, Mixed Media Artist, Norfolk, UK
I have finished another year of Art College with Art Academy East. Honestly, it is such a fantastic feeling, it’s been a long and significant year of learning, culminating in a final project to create a body of work that is shown to our family and friends as an exhibition. We were asked to investigate …
It’s 2023 and it’s starting as a warm one here in Norfolk UK. We rang in the new year as a family, including our daughter’s boyfriend. It was a fun evening of laughter, just dance, Wii sports and alcohol-free bubbly. We look forward to 2023 as a year of being happy, healthy, and full of …
So module 1 is all done and dusted, we were looking at “imaginative landscapes” and that in itself takes on all sorts of connotations, but ultimately we were looking at how to paint a landscape, using a colour palette of our choice from the 4 seasons we had prepared and having composed a drawing from …
Learning to do colour mixing as part of your art practice is so very important, probably more so than just getting a painting done!
On the 25th January 2022 I took part in a charity day at my college. The charity event was run by Art Academy East, for the charity Papyrus UK. It was run in honour of a former student of the Academy, Emily Owens who sadly took her own life. Papyrus UK is a charity providing …
