Although I have a BA Hons Design degree and HND Illustration under my belt, my style of work evolved further, stronger many years after graduation - I blend illustration and fine art.
Watercolour and pen & ink lets you combine precision lines and detail with spontaneous fluid paint. Or the opposite.
I get an expanded reality from the medium, forged from many sketchbook ideas - that challenge and open compositions - always thinking on depth.
I like to tell students, this is your perspective, your story - and translates through the medium. Be the best version of yourself, with only the key influences to look at.
I point out that, I always use the prop set design view; foreground objects being large, crisp, thicker lined, then mid ground, with less detail leaving background with slight painterly shapes.
In my lessons you will see all of the equipment I use to create my portfolio strength, using stretched paper, wet on wet/dry, layering, working from light into dark and ways to go backward on that, timing during the piece' creation, archiving and storage.