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Company, where for some time he designed textiles of various kinds.
He has also had experience in Commercial Art, having designed
many posters and advertisements. A graduate of the Edinburgh Art School
where he obtained his diploma as Art Master, and a former teacher in
the Lincoln Art School, he is a welcome addition to our School.

We have figure-drawing from life and the cast, and composition; all
with a view to design. In the Commercial Art class we get lettering and
the application of many principles of design. The work in the modelling-
room gives scope for much interesting creative effort in our subject; while
the Costume Design class shows us the use of different fabric patterns.
Architecture, too, is taken by our students, with a view to interior decora-
tion later on.

In the Design class itself we have done designs for chintz and other
materials, such as printed silk and brocade, these being based on various
pattern plannings. We have done plant drawings in season, and are now
experimenting on whitewood boxes, decorating them with our own
designs. In addition, there have been exercises and lectures on Historic
Ornament, and lately we have been studying the Theory of Colour.

Our class is a comparatively small one; but that only enables our
popular instructor, Mr. MacDonald, to give us more individual attention
than would be possible in a larger class,—which is entirely to our benefit.

Composition By Maud Sherman

HIS class, under the direction of Mr. Varley, has been a most
interesting one, bringing out any qualities of imagination and
originality that may be in us.

At first we were given a new subject each week for a quick sketch in
charcoal, the idea of mural decoration being kept in mind all the time.
Our interpretation of the title and its carrying out was then criticized by
Mr. Varley. Later we attempted something more ambitious—Indian
legends in oils—still in the form of mural decoration, and the size of the
panels in the common room. This caused much delving into books of
legends and ransacking of memory, as well as trips to the Museum to see
the Indian collection there. The project gave us a chance to revel in
colour according to our various ideas.

Just now, those of us who have finished our legends, are getting