Wishing you all a lovely Christmas
The Treetops Office will be closed from
Monday 21 December - Monday 4 January
We are looking forward to seeing you in 2016 at one of our great classes.
Saturday, 19 December 2015
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
Winter Anemones Watercolour
Stunning Winter Anemones
Today's Watercolour Class with Claire was all about the beautiful colours of Anemones.
I got a stunning array of colours from:
Claire had some stunning paint colours for us to choose from, from the SAA.
(The Society for All Artists)
Quinacridone Magenta
a deep bright pink, try remembering that name!
Manganese Violet
Intense Violet
Neutral Tint green shade
And our usual cobalt blue, ultramarine blue, permanent rose and lemon yellow.
Plus some of Claire's own Poppy Red, from her paint range.
First of all we drew out our flowers and went around the edges with masking fluid, we were using Saunders Waterford 300lb paper, a lovely thick paper that absorbs the water for our wet on wet technique.
We dropped some colours into our first wash, and then created some negative painting to show the stalks and leaves.
You can just see the two stages in the two paintings above.
You can just see the two stages in the two paintings above.
The flowers were pretty tricky, getting the technique right of the cup shape and having a darker centre which helps to create shape.
We certainly had some beautiful flowers in our gallery at the end:
Today's lunch was a gorgeous Fish Pie from Waitrose
That's the end of term folks.
See you in the New Year!
Spring Term classes are filling fast ....
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Watercolour 2016 Dates
Our 2016 Art Dates are now out and we are taking bookings:
PRIMROSES WATERCOLOUR
Wednesday 13 January 2016
This has been requested by many of you as we’ve not done Primroses for several years, beautiful creamy colours with Claire guiding you step by step.
PEN & WASH
Friday 22 January
Always popular, in this class you will sketch and mark several small pictures with permanent and non permanent pens alongside watercolour paints and/or coloured pens.
BEGINNERS/REFRESHERS WATERCOLOUR - SNOWDROPS
Tuesday 2 February
This class is perfect if you want to go back to basics or if you haven’t painted for a while.
A MISTY MORNING WATERCOLOUR
Wednesday 3 February
Learn how to get atmosphere in your paintings. Create some beautiful washes.
WILD ANIMALS WATERCOLOUR
Tuesday 9 February
A new one for Treetops, if you visit Claire's Facebook
you can see one she has recently started painting
A SPRING WOODLAND
Tuesday 23 February
A great landscape watercolour, you can really get stuck into mastering trees in this one! Do not fear trees!
WATERSOLUBLE OILS - A SEASCAPE
Wednesday 16 March
We had a great introductory class recently with these oils, they were fantastic, so easy to use and everyone really enjoyed the day.
All of our classes at Treetops run from 9:30am until approximately 3-4pm. They cost £70 (except for Oils which is £75), this includes all of your materials, a 2 course home cooked lunch, a glass of wine and refreshments throughout the day.
To book, please email me to confirm if there is a place. Full payment needs to be made to secure your place within 5 days of the booking. This can be done either by cheque or online banking. Once payment has been received I will send you a confirmation/directions etc.
emily @ treetops-newbury.co.uk
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