Bark Impressions

14 November.

At Pelham Schools’ Art Club this week we painted  clay impressions taken from the bark of the willow tree. We looked at texture and colour and painted using tiny brushes to emphasise the variety in the texture.

Impression taken from the trunk of the willow

Painted impression

Looking carefully at texture

Using a limited earth palette

Deep impressions

Dappled tones

When all our pieces were finished we arranged them into a joint piece in different forms