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

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£10 from each sale goes to Hospice UK

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

Many thanks

Primroses Watercolour

Claire Warner demonstrating how to paint Primroses with watercolours.

We had a sunny class today painting primroses, using the gorgeous creamy naples yellow.

Artists concentrated on their background first wash, their primrose flowers in the foreground and the foliage.  We spoke about painting light to dark and building up the layers of colour.

They all looked very pretty.

We've had a great start to the year with our classes, we have a few spaces left on A Misty Morning which is on Wednesday 3 February, this will be a class focussing on the early morning lights, mists and cobwebs.  Don't miss it!