As well as teaching Art (2 days a week) to GCSE level in a small private school,Tony runs several adult drawing and painting classes.
These are as follows- (Autumn term 2009)
A private class in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire. This meets on Friday mornings between 10 and12 am.
It is a well established class with some long term members but is truly open to all abilities and levels of experience.
Various still life groups and natural objects are provided along with photographic examples of landscape, flowers etc.
Some members bring there own work in to develop with help and advice. Tuition and encouragement are given as needed
and a wide range of materials are used according to members interests, typically watercolour, acrylics, oils, pastels.
It costs £7 per session, trial session is free. Ring Tony on 01442 250181 for more details.
Tony also gives demonstrations and runs workshops for Art societies, mostly in the SE of England.
Subjects, in either acrylics or pastels,include- Life in India, Portraits, Landscapes, Still Life and 'Aspects of composition'
WORKSHOPS
Workshops are typically for 1 day, say 10 am to 4 pm. They start with a small demonstration and then members are
encouraged to to more than one study in the agreed style.
There are several chances for review and discussion during the day
This is some of the work done by those attending a day's pastel landscape workshop-
ACRYLICS DEMONSTRATIONS
Paintings are usually started at speed working tonally in The above are acrylic studies (unfinished) done during
ultramarine blue and white. demonstrations on the theme of India to illustrate
Other primary colours are added as washes - as in the this technique. They are on canvas or canvas board,
above recorded at early and later stages during mostly 16 x 20 ins.
a 2 hour demo.
PASTEL DEMONSTRATIONS
The above is a series of photos taken by a member of the audience during a pastel demo portrait from a live model.The study was
done on a canvas panel that had been treated with blue and brown pastel, well fixed with hair spray.
No photo of the final result, but the work was bought by the model!
Above are some landscape pastel quick sketches done by Tony in recent demonstrations.
The emphasis is on speed of execution and essential tonal values.
The above portraits based on photos taken by the artist in India have been done or started during pastel
demonstrations in portrait technique.
Stage 1 
Stage 2
The above pastel studies are two early stages of a picture, done on a canvas panel, on the theme of Life in India. They were
taken during a demonstration to an Art Society. The first one shows a tonal study in blue and white with a little colour added.
Stage 2, whilst incomplete, shows how colours can be built up as the work develops.
The following is a pastel still life done The following is an acrylic study from a still life
during a demonstration- done during a demonstration-
