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EDUCATIONAL SHOWCASE
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Contents thumbnail Assembling the Family/The Electronic Family Album
Family albums reworked into a series of family narratives using conventional montage, photography, video and computer imaging.
Contents thumbnail Little and Large
Year 9 students creating miniatures and life-sized portraits after comparing the use of scale in Tudor period portraits.
  Adult
Emma's Attitudes
Taking Emma Hamilton's performances as our inspiration, students used the draped model as the basis for drawing work
New Connections
A one-day practical art course making connections between the National Portrait Gallery and the Wallace Collection at Hertford House, London
Contents thumbnail Land of the Giants
Students making paintings inspired by paintings of large Indian style publicity billboards by BP Travel Award winner
Christopher Stevens.
Contents thumbnail Mrs Delany: Plants and Paper
A three day course on the 'paper mosaicks' of Mrs Delany and paper-making, held at Beningbrough Hall, Yorkshire.
Contents thumbnail The Art of Miniature Painting
Two-day advanced miniature painting workshops.
Contents thumbnail Sir Francis Drake
Inspired by a full length portrait of Drake and directed at confident amateur artists familiar with egg tempera and interested in portrait painting.
John Everett Millais
A practical drawing and painting course which explored the ideas and techniques developed by Millais in his portraits.



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