Pen & Wash Class - Lake District

On Monday we welcomed 10 artists for a Pen and Wash Class.

 

Claire had chosen a lovely bridge in the Lake District near Borrowdale in Keswick as the focus.

Time was spent on the layout and placement of the bridge and setting, before trialling different ways of using the pen, whether it was through lines, cross hatching, dotting and shading, and with different thickness of pen.  It's a very relaxing process.

After lunch, everyone mixed their paints ready to apply gentle washes across their picture.

For lunch we enjoyed a warming Smoky Chicken Stew, from  BBC Good Food Magazine, served with lovely fresh Treetops baked sourdough.  Followed by warm Gingerbread Cake and clotted cream ice cream.

Here is the Gallery of pictures from the day.

Our Spring and Summer Dates are now available to book on the website!

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A Winter Scene Art Class

 

Our final Art class of the year with Claire

A Winter Scene

Claire demonstrated with pen which was then followed with a light wash of watercolour paint.

Beautiful pictures, you can feel the cold in them!

We warmed up with a festive casserole for lunch.

After lunch there was time for a few quick sketches.

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Pen & Wash Class

Friday started with a brief covering of snow, but it had all gone before our Pen & Wash class started.

The theme was A Spanish Port, and Claire had chosen a lovely colourful image from Port Sa Playa in Valencia.

The artists used permanent pen to create their sketch, using their imagination and creativity to capture the essence of the original.

A light wash of watercolour paint was added at the end, the idea is not to 'colour it in', but to add splashes and hints of colour.

We enjoyed beautiful sunshine for most of the day.

Delicious pudding today, a jaffa cake ice cream loaf cake!

One of our artists captured this lovely photo of Spring blossom from the garden before she left.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Winter Scene Pen & Wash

Another day, another Winter Scene, but this time was a Pen & Wash class

Our artists spent a large part of the day drawing their scene from Bourton on the Water in the Cotswolds

Before adding washes later on in the day

Some glitter to give a frosty atmosphere

One of our artists, brought in her home made cushions that were en-route to the Cats Trust, we managed to take half of them off her hands and monies into the charity's pocket, they were gorgeous.

That's the end of term folks, thanks for joining us this term and year, we look forward to seeing you  in 2020.

Claire and I will be sending out the new dates shortly, watch the blog dates page and you email inbox

2019 Art Dates- Now taking Bookings

We are now taking bookings for our 2019 dates:

Wednesday 27 February

A Walk in the Cotswolds Watercolour

Thursday 28 February

 Magnolia Spring Blossom Watercolour

Thursday 21 March

Pen & Wash

Fur and Feathers

Tuesday 26 March

Beginners & Refreshers Watercolour

Wednesday 27 March

Singing in the Rain Watercolour

(splashing in puddles, umbrellas, wellies)

Thursday 4 April

 A Colourful Market Scene Watercolour

(fruit, flowers, vegetables, people, colour)

Friday 5 April

 Beautiful Buildings Watercolour

(looking at texture, crumbling masonry, old bricks, tonal values)

Wednesday 17 April

 An Introduction to Brusho Paints

(brilliantly intense paint powders)

SUNDAY 5 May

Boats in the Harbour Watercolour
(11:30am - 5pm)

Wednesday 5 June

Afternoon Tea in the Garden Watercolour

Thursday 6 June

Room with a View Watercolour

Wednesday 10 July

Portmeirion Watercolour

(an enchanting, colourful Italianate village on the coast of North Wales)

Thursday 11 July

A Tropical Sunset Watercolour

All of our classes cost £75 (apart from the Brusho class which costs £80)

The classes run from 9:30am - approximately 3pm

 The day includes all of your materials, refreshments throughout the day, a 2 course lunch and a glass of wine.

To book please email me:

Emily@Treetops

Pen & Wash Winter Sunshine

We had a lovely Pen and Wash class today, sketching Sturminster Newton Mill, an old flour mill in Dorset.

The group started the morning with a light pencil sketch to position their Mill, weir and the walkway.

This was followed with permanent black pens to create tones.

A Watercolour wash was then added.  The paints had been mixed with alot of water to create tints of colour.

And from one Mill to another ......

Today we used paper from St Cuthberts Mill in Somerset,  Saunders Waterford 200lb 425gsm watercolour paper, which is the perfect weight and has a great surface for this technique.

St Cuthberts Mill has been making paper since the 1700's, taking advantage of the pure waters from the River Axe.  They manufacture high quality artists papers using one of the few remaining cylinder mould machines in the world.

And here are a few sketches to round off the day!

Thanks everyone for a great day.