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

Spring Flowers Watercolour

 

We welcomed 9 artists to Treetops today for our Spring Flowers Workshop, our first painting was of some pretty primroses coming through the undergrowth.

Claire demonstrates in stages, after the initial faint drawing and placing of the flowers, a little bit of masking fluid and mixing of paints, the above photo shows the first wash.

 

After a rest away from the paintings as we let them dry, we moved into the Hall for a delicious lunch of kedgeree, slow roasted tomatoes and a watercress & mandarin salad, followed by a delicious gingerbread cake, poached pears and vanilla creme fraiche desert.  And for some a much needed glass of wine!

After lunch, the artists embarked on a looser and freer crocus painting

Thanks everyone for coming, see you again

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Our Online Watercolour Snowdrop Workshop is still available to buy from our website

HERE

£10 from each sale goes to Hospice UK

We have sent £1390 to them for January and February, help us reach £1500!

Many thanks

Cornish Harbour Watercolour Class

 

It's been a busy month at Treetops so far, so I am catching up on my blog posts.

These photos are from our Cornish Harbour Watercolour Class with Claire on 1 November.  We also used a fine black marker towards the end to highlight certain areas of the painting.

We started with a gentle pencil sketch of the Harbour

Followed by a gentle first wash of paint.  

Some of you may recognise the harbour as St Ives

We had some colourful boats and some beautiful water painted.

Lunch today was a delicious lamb and apricot tagine served with flatbreads.

Thank you everyone for coming it was a lovely day.

Bluebells Watercolour - We are Back!

It was great to welcome back some artists for our first Watercolour class after 25 months!

Beautiful Bluebells; as well as watercolour paints we used texture paste for the pathway and pva glue and tissue paper to create texture for our trees.

We were joined by someone from the new local magazine Made in the Shire, who wrote a lovely review which I thought I'd share with you below:

What a day we had yesterday! We were lucky enough to experience one of Treetops Watercolour Workshops in Newbury, along with many other lovely people.

Treetops is such a stunning venue surrounded by countryside, and our Watercolour Tutor, Claire, was super at explaining every clearly and teaching us how to create our own pieces of art.

Included in our ticket was hot drinks, yummy cake, a very wholesome lunch, followed by a calming glass of wine.

The stroll round the grounds after lunch gave us all even more energy and inspiration to finish our creations, which we took home with us.

A highly recommend experience, either for yourself or as a gift for someone special!

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We enjoyed a delicious lunch of chicken & parma ham roulade, with wild rice, wild garlic and artichoke salad, and a crunchy bright vegetable salad with mustard dressing.  Dessert was Raspberry Cream Crush.

We are back for another Watercolour Class on 11 May, which is the stunning Isle of Scilly.