Water Lily Pond Oils Class

 

Our Oils class was bright and beautiful, we painted Water Lilies amongst a vibrant green and blue pond, the end results were brilliant.

We all had such a lovely day, the majority of our artists had not painted with Oils before and they really enjoyed themselves.

Claire starts the class with a full demonstration of the painting for everyone to watch, before they start to put paint on the canvas.

As you can see they are all so different, I love this shade of pink with the green and blue.

Below is our family trio out to spend a lovely day together, we also had another mother and daughter come together too.

Lunch was Scandi Salmon, which was delicious followed by a pear and chocolate crumble.

We will definitely be holding another Oils Class next year, so look out for the date.

An update on this term's classes

Hello Everyone

Please find below a list of our classes this term that still have spaces remaining:

Autumn Aga

Tuesday 15 October

9:45am - 1:30pm

£65

Root Chakra AromaYoga

Wednesday 16 October

7pm - 9pm

£25

Capturing the Light in Oils

Friday 1 November

9:30am - 3pm

£80

Stormy Seas & Stormy Skies Watercolour

Tuesday 5 November

9:30am - 3pm

£75

Venice Watercolour

Wednesday 6 November

9:30am - 3pm

£75

Festive Papercutting

Tuesday 12 November

10am - 3pm

£60

Immune Support AromaYoga

Wednesday 13 November

7pm - 9pm

£25

Christmas Aga

Thursday 14 November

9:45am - 1:30pm

£65

Winter Scene Watercolour

Thursday 5 December

9:30am - 3pm

£75

Luxury Christmas Wreath Making

Tuesday 3 December

6:15pm - 9:30pm

£90

Luxury Christmas Wreath Making

Wednesday 4 December

9:45am - 1pm

£90

Festive Oils AromaYoga

Wednesday 11 December

7pm - 9pm

£25

To book any of these classes please email me

Oils in the style of Turner

This week's Art class with Claire, was with Oils.

Creating work inspired by Turner.

Claire spent the first part of the morning demonstrating and talking about Turner and his life and style.

Some of our artists managed several works of art during the day.

For some it was quite hard to begin with, learning how to work with the paints, especially if they had previously worked with watercolour.

Once you find the movement within the paint and your brush the magic happens.....

There is always time for a cuppa whilst paint dries!

We had to allow them to dry flat in the hall.

These paintings will take several weeks to dry, depending on the depth of paint.

As you can see there are some great seascapes, light in the skies and some Venetian images.

The colours in the painting below are fabulous.

 At the end of the class we always leave time to enjoy the 'gallery', it's an opportunity to see everyone's work from the day.

 We have a space available on our Venice Watercolour Class, please email me if you would like to come, it's on Thursday 5 October, 9.30am - 3pm, £70 to include all materials and a 2 course lunch with wine.

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For those of you who enjoy Turner's work, there is currently an exhibition in Winchester;

Turner and the Sun

at The Gallery, Winchester Discovery Centre

Until 15 October

after that it will be transferring to the Willis Museum (The Sainsbury Gallery) in Basingstoke

21 October - 16 December 2017

There will also be some interseting workshops and talks during the exhibition.

  

Monet's Garden in Oils

Today we had an Oils class, these classes have become increasingly popular.

Our theme was Monet's Garden, full of beautiful colours and reflections.

After coffee, Claire spoke about painting in Oils and then demonstrated some techniques to help with the days painting.

Below are some of our students hard at work 

They used brushes and palette knives to apply the paint to the canvas.

For some this was their first time ever painting in oils.

Below is a display of the finished paintings:

Lunch today was Chicken Caprese, full of flavour with pesto, mozzarella, basil and tomato.  Served with fresh bread and a spinach and rocket salad.

Below was our vegetarian option, a spinach and tortellini cheese bake.

And pudding was a creamy (soaked overnight) Tiramisu!

And they all managed to return to the painting table after that and carry on!

A really successful day. 

Our first Oils class at Treetops! Huge Success!

After all our years of painting Watercolour, Acrylics, Pen and Wash we decided to hold a Watermixable Oils class (or rather I gave in after Claire convinced me she would clear up any horrible mess!)

It was really popular and sold out very quickly, all but one person had tried Oils before, so everyone was slightly nervous at what lay ahead. 

Whilst everyone enjoyed their morning coffee, Claire spoke about the oils, brushes and how to apply them, she demonstrated at the easel, blending and mixing the colours to create a gorgeous effect. 

There was a huge array of images to choose from, all atmospheric and misty.  We worked on a thin canvas board fixed to some great desk top easels.

Some stood, some sat, but always remembered Claire's words ... "stand back from your work to look at it every now and then".

We broke for lunch, all that concentration makes you hungry!

Citrus Baked Chicken with Pomegranate Rice

followed by Ginger Spiced Cake and Toffee Sauce

Everyone managed to embark on a second painting in the afternoon, after the morning experimentation of getting used to the oils, the artists produced much quicker paintings.

Below is a gallery of our work, some will still be drying .....!

Claire was delighted with everyone's first time at Oils, they were brilliant works of art.  The feedback was that it was an easy medium to apply, and many preferred it to Acrylics.

We will be holding another Watermixable Oils class in the Spring, keep your eye on the dates page (at the top of this blog) for when the dates are published.