Floral Watercolour

We had a lovely group in today for our Florals Watercolour Class

Claire had chosen Roses, one of the hardest flowers to accomplish

The group worked on their background wash having masked out various shapes

Here is Claire's example of the painting at this stage, everyone had some time to mix and study various greens to use in their painting.

Below are the beautiful rose paintings mounted and ready to go home, such gorgeous pinks.

Claire is back at Treetops in October for our Beginners & Refreshers Class on Tuesday 3 October and Temple Island Landscape/Riverscape on Monday 30 October.

Both classes run from 9:30am - approx 3pm

All of your materials are included along with a 2 course lunch with wine and refreshments throughout the day.

To book please click on to the website HERE

Simply Seashells Class

During our August Pop Up Pop In Week we held our first Simply Seashells class.

It was a really fun and relaxing way to spend a few hours.

Using shells, seaglass and sea pottery collected from Cornwall, we learnt about glues, papers and the best way to apply the treasures.  Some people bought their own beach combed treasures with them to use in their picture, which is a lovely way to make it more personal.

Starting with some greeting cards to get used to the glue and pressure needed, we then moved on to our main picture, where we chose shapes, mount and colour of frame.  So many decisions!

Fuelled by cake, tea and coffee, there were some amazing pictures created as you can see below.

Bambi and her 2 little ones were in the garden too which was lovely to see, you can just see one of them on the grass in the photo below!

We have two more Shell Classes coming up at Treetops in the Autumn Term 

12 October or 4 December

10am - 12:30pm

£40 

(to include all materials, box frame and refreshments)

Book HERE

"I really enjoyed the class, the company, beautiful setting and delicious cake was great, I am totally inspired to create some more shell pictures" - K

Simply Seashells is run by Emily and she will be at the October Renartgades Market in Newbury at The Waterside Centre from 10am - 4pm, selling a selection of pictures and cards.

Simply Seashells can make commissions especially for you, either using some of your collected beach treasure, this is a great idea for a special picture to remember a lovely holiday or honeymoon, or her own shells and seaglass collected from Cornwall and Devon.

The above photo is a finished picture created for a bathroom using shells collected over the years in Portugal, such gorgeous colours.  The finished artworks are all natural, no varnishes or colours are used.

Click on the link above to the Simply Seashells website to contact Emily.