Tea in the Garden - Watercolour Class

Last week we enjoyed a lovely day full of sunshine for our Watercolour Class day.

We were painting a "Tea in the Garden" scene, there were several to choose from, with Claire demonstrating the stages throughout the day.

The wisteria is on it's way!

We took a break from painting and mixing colours to enjoy lunch, some pistachio, honey and mustard salmon served with an asparagus and avocado green salad

whilst the vegetarians had an aubergine, lentil and feta dish

(which was so delicious I made it for supper the following day!)

Here is the gallery of everyone's paintings ...

So pretty and accomplished!

Thank you everyone for coming.

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I had some of the lovely rhododendrons from the garden on the table at lunch, we have a great Online Watercolour Workshop with Claire featuring Rhododendrons, it's easy to buy and download from the website.  The film is about 90 minutes long with Claire teaching you step by step how to paint the chosen painting.  You also receive a materials list, a paint chart of colours used and images of the stages to print out and have alongside you.

Beginners Watercolour Class

A warm welcome to a full group of Beginners looking to explore and learn all about Watercolour with Claire.

Our subject and inspiration for the day was a beach in Jersey

Greve de Lecq

Everyone spent time learning about papers, paints and mixing colours, before starting their main painting with a beautiful wash and continuing the day in step by step stages.

Below are the finished paintings, they are great!

 

If you missed this class, we have a downloadable Beginners Watercolour Workshop on our website here:

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it's about an hour long and you can learn at your own pace, stop, rewind and rewatch again and again.

We also have a Beginners Materials Art Box which is a great addition to the workshop, you will save about 20% buying it all together in this way.

Texture in Art with Claire

We recently held a Textures Art Class using watercolour pencils, pen and wash.

Claire had some great images and photos of old doors and ironmongery with peeling paintwork, crumbly stone surrounds, old steps and brickwork, each one told a great story.

Having drawn out the door, a gentle wash was applied, some texture paste was also put to show brick and stone work, then bit by bit the watercolour pencils were used to add colour and structure to the painting.

Here are some of the art materials we used at class.

After a break for some delicious lunch of pesto salmon served with giant couscous and roasted vegetables, the afternoon was spent finishing off everyone's various creations.

(vegetarian option: all dietary requirements are looked after at Treetops)

Here a selection of some of the finished artworks.

Colourful Collage Class

 

A great new class on Thursday - Collage with Laura

Laura brought so many different types of paper with her, it was amazing, plus our craft ladies had also brought some with them.

Laura explained the glue medium we would be using and the silicone 'brushes' and we had a practice piece of MDF to work on, some papers are definitely easier than others to use.

There is a technique to choosing and placing your pieces that Laura explained, and then after that you can incorporate text, handwritten words, use paints, inks, stencils, the world is your oyster!

These are just some of the boxes of paper Laura has!  Tissue, hand printed, newspaper, marbled paper, sewing patterns, maps, music paper, so many treasures in those boxes!

I first met Laura at an Art Exhibition when I fell in love and bought her big piece 'Gratitude', so we had a good look at it, and Laura explained her process.

She had also laid out some of her other pieces of work and sketchbook for everyone to look at.

Thanks everyone for coming and to Laura for such a brilliant, really fun and relaxing class.