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Wednesday 13 March 2024

Charity Online Daffodil Watercolour Workshop

 


We are very happy to launch our new Charity Online Daffodils Watercolour Workshop with Claire Warner in aid of Hospice UK.

£10 from each workshop bought goes directly to Hospice UK and support The National Garden Scheme and their Spring Flower Open Gardens.  Have a look at their website and see if there's a garden open near you.

The workshop is suitable for all levels of artist including Beginners, so if you'd like to have a go, this is perfect.  Claire teaches in an easy to follow step by step style.

(Professionally filmed and edited by the Storey brothers).


Learn how to mix and apply watercolour paint, master the wet in wet technique used, discover how to create the daffodils trumpet shape and find the contrast and shadows needed, but most of all just enjoy this happy and colourful subject whilst painting.

We also have a Daffodils Materials Box available in our Online Shop with everything in that you would need for this workshop.


Your Online Watercolour Workshop will be sent to your email as a PDF document.

The PDF will include:

A link to your online watercolour workshop video
A materials list of what you need
A paint chart of the colours used
Art tips from Claire
Images of all the stages of the drawing and painting

YOU MUST SAVE THE PDF TO YOUR DEVICE WITHIN 30 DAYS, IT IS THEN YOURS TO KEEP


Enjoy Spring and welcome the sunshine with these bright and beautiful flowers.


The Workshop and the Materials Box are both available to buy from the Treetops Website

Texture in Art with Claire



We recently held a Textures Art Class using watercolour pencils, pen and wash.

Claire had some great images and photos of old doors and ironmongery with peeling paintwork, crumbly stone surrounds, old steps and brickwork, each one told a great story.


Having drawn out the door, a gentle wash was applied, some texture paste was also put to show brick and stone work, then bit by bit the watercolour pencils were used to add colour and structure to the painting.


Here are some of the art materials we used at class.




After a break for some delicious lunch of pesto salmon served with giant couscous and roasted vegetables, the afternoon was spent finishing off everyone's various creations.



(vegetarian option: all dietary requirements are looked after at Treetops)

Here a selection of some of the finished artworks.















Saturday 2 March 2024

Colourful Collage Class

 


A great new class on Thursday - Collage with Laura


Laura brought so many different types of paper with her, it was amazing, plus our craft ladies had also brought some with them.


Laura explained the glue medium we would be using and the silicone 'brushes' and we had a practice piece of MDF to work on, some papers are definitely easier than others to use.


There is a technique to choosing and placing your pieces that Laura explained, and then after that you can incorporate text, handwritten words, use paints, inks, stencils, the world is your oyster!


These are just some of the boxes of paper Laura has!  Tissue, hand printed, newspaper, marbled paper, sewing patterns, maps, music paper, so many treasures in those boxes!


I first met Laura at an Art Exhibition when I fell in love and bought her big piece 'Gratitude', so we had a good look at it, and Laura explained her process.


She had also laid out some of her other pieces of work and sketchbook for everyone to look at.


Thanks everyone for coming and to Laura for such a brilliant, really fun and relaxing class.


Tuesday 27 February 2024

A Frosty Morning - Two Classes this week


Claire and I have spent the last two days with some lovely artists, painting a Frosty Morning Scene, the painting was filled with such glorious colours in the sky.


It was really fun to create the first wash of the sky, but not before we'd masked the sheep, fence posts and church.  We used 300lb Saunders Waterford paper from St Cuthberts Mill, it's great at absorbing the amount of water we use for this wet on wet technique.


Above are the colours we used today, we used lots of Claire's gorgeous watercolour paints/colours.


Claire demonstrates in a step by step style, you can make notes to refer back to and being a small group, you receive plenty of attention from Claire as she makes her way round the room.


It's always good to break for lunch, have some time away from the paintings and the concentration and enjoy some delicious food and a glass of wine.


This week we have enjoyed Chicken with spinach and artichokes served with herbed rice and a mixed leaf salad and slow roasted tomatoes.

For pudding we had a Raspberry and Lemon Fool.

Vegetarians and Free From diets are easily catered for.



Below is the gallery of this week's paintings:














Thanks everyone for coming

Claire is back next week for a Lake District Watercolour painting, looking at mist and reflections.