Easter Weekend News

Wishing you all a Happy Easter, it's so lovely to have the sun out and enjoy being outside and in the garden.

Next week we have a Watercolour Class with Claire

"Boats in the Mediterranean"

It's going to be full of sunshine, blues and beautiful boats.

Come and learn some new skills and techniques enjoy a delicious lunch and relax with a lovely small group of people.  It's always a great day.

Tuesday 11 April

9:30am - 3pm

All of your materials, a 2 course lunch and a glass of wine are included.

£85

Just 3 places left.

Our next Watercolour Class isn't until June, when we will be "Watching the Storm" on Wednesday 28 June; learn how to add action, speed and atmosphere to your watercolours with softness of foam and fluidity of waves, it's a fun one!

Book Watercolour Classes

Towards the end of April we have our Spring Cookery Class.

This is on Thursday 27 April and you can choose from either a morning or evening class, it's demo style with tasting of all the food cooked and a recipe booklet to take home.

10am - 1pm

or

7pm - 10pm

£50

We will be covering seasonal easy dishes to recreate at home, both for family and larger groups of friends and family, we have mains, salads and vegetarian recipes, a delicious cake, a quick pudding and a fresh spring cocktail.

There will be plenty of tips shared, we really hope you can join us.

In our Online Shop we have a Spring Sketch Offer, for just £49.99 you can receive Claire's Watercolour Pad, made from high quality Saunders Waterford paper, the thickest sketch pad on the market, this ring bound pad is ideal for painting outside or on your holidays as it folds flat, and because the paper is so thick it can hold watercolour on both sides.

You also get 3 of Claire's Watercolour paints and a set of 5 Watercolour brushes.

You can buy it here

Whilst you are on the website, have a look at our Online Workshops, we have a great variety of Yoga and Art Workshops for you, perfect for this time of year is our Spring Yoga with Rachel and our Spring Blossom Watercolour with Claire.

Click for Online Workshops

Enjoy the rest of your weekend

Emily

Beginners & Refreshers Watercolour Class

We had a fantastic class this week with 8 new Beginners and 2 Refresher artists.

Their work was unbelievable!

Our theme was Sunset at Lake Ullswater

This worked very well for mastering the first wash of colours over the paper and some beautiful effects happened.

At the start of a Beginners Class, Claire talks about paper, paints and brushes, before everyone enjoys some warming up mixing exercises.

Claire teaches in a step by step style so there is a good steady pace and no overwhelm of information.

For this class we were using a mix of SAA (Supporting All Artists) watercolour paints and Claire's own range of watercolour paints plus lovely thick paper from St Cuthberts Mill in Somserset, it absorbs the water really well for this wet in wet technique.

We let the first wash dry and enjoyed a delicious lunch of Pomegranate Salmon, honey and pecan potato salad, sesame broccoli and a raspberry fool.

(we cater for vegetarians, food allergies and intolerances)

Artists learnt plenty of skills in this class to take away with them.

We even got onto glazing across the water, which has really added to the paintings.

We hope to see you all back again to paint at Treetops!

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Our next class is on Tuesday 11 April

Boats in the Mediterranean

beautiful blue colours, reflections and sunshine!

9:30am - 3pm

£85

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