Loose and Free Watercolour Class

Our last class of term was a Watercolour one with Claire.

Titled Loose and Free

Using plenty of water and a limited palette of colour

These pretty flowers in the stripy jug are beautiful

After lunch we switched to a Venice scene, soft washes and dark silhouettes.

At the end of the class everyone had a go at these cute little cats, no drawing just straight in with the paint .... Loose and Free ...

Dates for next term can be found on the dates page, bookings are being taken now.  Come and learn how to paint in 2019!

Water Lily Oils Class

Yesterday was our Oil Class

Water Lilies

Following a short morning demonstration, the artists worked hard to create these beautiful and vibrant paintings ....

I meanwhile had far too much fun making waterlilies out of paper napkins for the lunch table!

Bookings are now open for our 2019 classes.

Treetops Festive Gift Guide

(image from pinterest)

With 20 days to go until the big day, I thought I would share with you some of our tutor's lovely offerings, they would make great presents and it's always a good thing to support small businesses!

Starting with Laura our Relax & Restore Yoga tutor, she runs a website called The Wellbeing Feeling and is offering Treetops customers 20% off her Herbal Teas with the code 'Treetops'.  Last deliveries for Christmas will be on Saturday 15 December.

  Visit her website to see all her other beautiful offerings, which include gorgeous candles.

Next is Rachel our AromaYoga tutor, she has made some amazing essential oil aromatherapy rollerballs for £12 each, I am using mine daily!

There are 4 available (the oils are blended with a coconut oil base)

Relax: Lavender, Bergamot and Cedarwood

Uplift: Wild Orange, Grapefruit, Lime

Headache Relief: Peppermint, Lavender, Rosemary

Immune Support: 'On Guard' blend, Tea Tree and Oregano

To order them please email Rachel

Sarah our Aga Tutor has a great range of recipe books that are available from her shop including her really useful Christmas book;

Her other books are

Relaxed Aga Cooking

Casual Cooking

Effortless Cooking

Confident Cooking

Claire our Watercolour and Art tutor is selling some great Watercolour Starter Kits, over £80 worth of materials for just an amazing Christmas Offer price of £48!  The offer also includes a long brush case.

Inside you will find 5 paints, 3 brushes, a plastic palette, a pipette, a rubber, a fabel castell 9000 graphite lead pencil B

(NB: the christmas set includes 5 paints)

Claire's Watercolour Pads are always popular and make a great gift for any artist, they are £11.99 each or £20 for two.

A few years ago Claire developed her own range of watercolour paints, they are lovely to use.  The colours in her range are:

Warm yellow, Honey, Rose Pink, Poppy Red, Autumn Berry, Lilac, Aubergine, Sky Blue, Transparent Cerulean, Light Green and Dark Green (both warm colours) Cool Green

The paints are £6.50 per tube

£5.75 each for 3 or more

£5.25 each for 6 or more

£5 each for 10 or more

You can order any of Claire's items and have them delivered here next Tuesday 11th December, and they will be here for collection.

Or please contact Claire to arrange p&p, last orders by Saturday 15 December

Acrylics - Boats on the Beach

Everyone enjoyed their Acrylics Class last week, Boats on the Beach

Great paintings, with textured sand, rolling waves and lovely skies.

We had the last of the Treetops apples in an autumnal crumble alongside pears and blackberries, delicious!