Sunflowers Watercolour Class

There are a few spaces left for next week's Watercolour Class, titled Sunflowers in Provence. Suitable for any level of artist, we have some complete beginners coming, so don't be afraid to come and give it a go.

The class is on Wednesday 28 April, starts at 9.30am and finishes at about 3pm, a 2 course lunch is included and plenty of biscuits (and coffee!) to keep you going throughout the day. The price is £65.

Claire provides all the materials, so all you have to do is just turn up and paint. Call 01635 44850 to book a place.

Simply Venice Watercolour Class

We had a lovely day yesterday painting our Venice scene. It wasn't as simple as the title suggested! There was quite alot of drawing to start with, to get the important skyline of buildings just right, they create a silhouette that can only be Venice.


Keeping in the watery Venice style, it was a painting that had several washes and we needed a good strong paper to take all the water we were brushing on. Claire had brought some Saunders Waterford paper, which is a very good quality 300lb heavyweight paper and perfect for the technique we were using of very loose washes, very typical of Claire's painting style (and also perfect for when she splashed her painting with the wrong paint, and was able to get it out, a thinner paper would have worn out, we all learnt a very useful technique there!)


We also had two new colours today, which were gorgeous, a green called Viridian, and a purple called Manganese Violet, both of which we used for the Gondolas, they were so vibrant, we had to be quite careful when mixing them up not to make them too strong.

It was a very chilled day, the sun shone, and we heard about two proposal stories from Venice!

We are now breaking for the Easter with Watercolour and will be back on Wednesday 28 April for Sunflowers in Provence, a lovely, big sunny painting.