2. Those who paint and draw should also use the digital.

It is important to encourage those who study drawing and painting, as well as other art forms, to use the digital environment as this is where future work will be available. I keep emphsising drawing and painting as this is the centre around which most fine art practices in schools and colleges are focused. To have an area for large constructed 3D work to be explored is rare. Ceramics is disappearing as kilns and clay areas are removed. Printing is restricted as large presses are removed and simpler alternatives are used. 

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Jessica Shepherd, Education Correspondent.

The Guardian,

Monday 26 December 2011 20.00 GMT

 

 

At Chenderit school in Northamptonshire, which has specialist arts status, the budget for visual arts has been cut from £120,000 to £35,000 this year. One art teacher, who works as an adviser to schools across the country and doesn't want to be named, says art departments can no longer afford kilns, digital cameras or oil paints and are making do with pencils and sketchpads instead. He says school art budgets have fallen by about 10% this year.