Beginners Watercolour Class

A warm welcome to a full group of Beginners looking to explore and learn all about Watercolour with Claire.

Our subject and inspiration for the day was a beach in Jersey

Greve de Lecq

Everyone spent time learning about papers, paints and mixing colours, before starting their main painting with a beautiful wash and continuing the day in step by step stages.

Below are the finished paintings, they are great!

 

If you missed this class, we have a downloadable Beginners Watercolour Workshop on our website here:

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it's about an hour long and you can learn at your own pace, stop, rewind and rewatch again and again.

We also have a Beginners Materials Art Box which is a great addition to the workshop, you will save about 20% buying it all together in this way.

Beginners & Refreshers Watercolour Class

We had a fantastic class this week with 8 new Beginners and 2 Refresher artists.

Their work was unbelievable!

Our theme was Sunset at Lake Ullswater

This worked very well for mastering the first wash of colours over the paper and some beautiful effects happened.

At the start of a Beginners Class, Claire talks about paper, paints and brushes, before everyone enjoys some warming up mixing exercises.

Claire teaches in a step by step style so there is a good steady pace and no overwhelm of information.

For this class we were using a mix of SAA (Supporting All Artists) watercolour paints and Claire's own range of watercolour paints plus lovely thick paper from St Cuthberts Mill in Somserset, it absorbs the water really well for this wet in wet technique.

We let the first wash dry and enjoyed a delicious lunch of Pomegranate Salmon, honey and pecan potato salad, sesame broccoli and a raspberry fool.

(we cater for vegetarians, food allergies and intolerances)

Artists learnt plenty of skills in this class to take away with them.

We even got onto glazing across the water, which has really added to the paintings.

We hope to see you all back again to paint at Treetops!

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Our next class is on Tuesday 11 April

Boats in the Mediterranean

beautiful blue colours, reflections and sunshine!

9:30am - 3pm

£85

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Spring 2020 Art Dates with Claire Warner

(Tree: Ham Yard Hotel London)

In amongst all the festive festivities Claire and I have put together next term's Art dates!

Please email me if you would like any further information

February

Wednesday 26th - Watercolour "Tulips"

Thursday 27th - Pen & Wash "A Spanish Port"

March

Tuesday 3rd - Watercolour "Boats/Reflections/Mist in Scotland"

Friday 13th - Watercolour for Beginners & Refreshers

April

Wednesday 1st - Watercolour "Poppies"

Thursday 2nd - Pen & Wash "Down on the Farm"

Tuesday 7th - Acrylics "Under the Waves"

All our classes run from 9:30am - approx 3pm and cost £75 (acrylics and pen & wash cost £80)

All of your materials are included in this price along with a 2 course lunch with wine and refreshments throughout the day.

(Gift vouchers are available for a specific class)