Charity Online Daffodil Watercolour Workshop

 

We are very happy to launch our new Charity Online Daffodils Watercolour Workshop with Claire Warner in aid of Hospice UK.

£10 from each workshop bought goes directly to Hospice UK and support The National Garden Scheme and their Spring Flower Open Gardens.  Have a look at their website and see if there's a garden open near you.

The workshop is suitable for all levels of artist including Beginners, so if you'd like to have a go, this is perfect.  Claire teaches in an easy to follow step by step style.

(Professionally filmed and edited by the Storey brothers).

Learn how to mix and apply watercolour paint, master the wet in wet technique used, discover how to create the daffodils trumpet shape and find the contrast and shadows needed, but most of all just enjoy this happy and colourful subject whilst painting.

We also have a Daffodils Materials Box available in our Online Shop with everything in that you would need for this workshop.

Your Online Watercolour Workshop will be sent to your email as a PDF document.

The PDF will include:

A link to your online watercolour workshop video

A materials list of what you need

A paint chart of the colours used

Art tips from Claire

Images of all the stages of the drawing and painting

YOU MUST SAVE THE PDF TO YOUR DEVICE WITHIN 30 DAYS, IT IS THEN YOURS TO KEEP

Enjoy Spring and welcome the sunshine with these bright and beautiful flowers.

The Workshop and the Materials Box are both available to buy from the Treetops 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

Floral Workshop with Lindsey

A beautiful sunshiney day for our Floral Workshop with Lindsey from

 The White Horse Flower Company

Lindsey spoke about all things floral, from the seasons, what we can grow and use from our gardens, conditioning and caring for flowers and styling.

Lindsey had brought some lovely flowers with her, some stunning coral peonies, ranunculus, roses and alliums alongside some colourful smaller flowers and foliage.

Lindsey showed how to make a hand tied arrangement followed by using chicken wire in a vase/jug/teapot to create a smaller table arrangement.

Then it was everyone elses's turn to get creative!

Everyone had the same flowers in their buckets, so it was incredible to see the very different creations at the end of the workshop.

Thank you Lindsey, we will see you back at Treetops in December for our Christmas Wreath Workshop!

Spring Flowers Watercolour

A really colourful day surrounded by very pretty Spring Flowers

We were painting Flowers from still life today, there were an assortment of pretty jugs and pots filled with daffodils, tulips, roses and foliage.

Claire explained about the various shapes of flowers such as trumpets, cups and saucer, and let us play with the flowers to help create our perfect little arrangement.  Top tips were to angle the daffodil and to show the centre of the rose. 

We sketched with pencil first, and then used some masking fluid to protect some of our defined edges before painting our first background wash.

After lunch we painted the flowers and foliage.  We then had a subtle background and a bright and beautiful foreground, so we had to work on our mid-tones and add some colour to blend the two together.

To finish we painted the jugs and added our shadows.

Here are our paintings:

At the end of the day, Claire puts the paintings into mounts and we have a small gallery, they looked great!