This morning we trialled a new idea of a Watercolour Workshop. The idea was that you came to Treetops with either a painting to finish or a painting that you need help to get started. Over the course of the morning Claire would be available to give support and advice.
You needed to bring all your own materials and equipment, which again was useful to have Claire look over, to see whether the paints we had were of good quality, either artist or student quality, if they are of student quality they tend to remove alot of the lovely rich pigments that usually produce the beautiful and vibrant colours.
Claire talked about mixing colours, in particular getting some great greens with lemon yellow. She talked "cows" and other animal shapes and helped me get some shadow and depth into one of my paintings that at the moment looks just like a group of floating objects!
The morning ran from 9.30am - 1pm, with the usual home made biscuits and fresh coffee available but it was mentioned that it wasn't quite the same leaving Treetops without having had lunch!
If you are interested in coming to one of our Workshops, please let me know.
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