Acrylics - Boats on the Beach

Everyone enjoyed their Acrylics Class last week, Boats on the Beach

Great paintings, with textured sand, rolling waves and lovely skies.

We had the last of the Treetops apples in an autumnal crumble alongside pears and blackberries, delicious!

September - Welcome to the New Term!

It's the start of the new term and we have a lot going on, so I thought I would update you with what's new and which classes still have spaces available.

Firstly starting next Monday, the 11th, for 6 weeks we have our new Relax & Restore class with Laura.  This is from 9:30am - 11:30am and is a great start to the week.  Enjoy restorative yoga and meditation in peaceful and relaxing surroundings.  We will provide all the equipment you need plus fruit, cake and water.  The cost for 6 sessions is £150.  Small group.  3 spaces left.

Our Relax and Retreat Day with Laura on Saturday 30 September sold out in record time, so we have another one in the diary for Saturday 25 November.  A perfect day to escape and treat yourself to yoga, meditation, relaxation and delicious food.  The day runs from 11am - 4pm and costs £75.

Sarah returns for 2 Aga classes this term, we have Autumn Treats on Tuesday 26 September, this will include warming recipes such as stews, soups, pies, tarts and pudding, whilst also demonstrating how to use and make the most of your Aga this season.

 

On Thursday 30 November we have a NEW Christmas Class, called Christmas Parties, from canapes to roulades and tarts to flapjacks this will be full of delicious ideas full of festive flavours.  This is a great class for learning what can be made ahead and frozen at this busy time of year.

Both Aga classes run from 9:45am - 1:30pm and cost £70, this includes a tasting lunch of all the food cooked, a glass of wine, refreshments and a booklet of the recipes to take home with you.

Claire has a full Art term here, with only a few spaces available.  There are 2 spaces on our Acrylics class on Thursday 14 September.  The Pen & Wash class on Tuesday 5 December has 3 places available and our Winter Scene Watercolour on Wednesday 6 December has 6 spaces available.

 All the classes run from 9:30am - approx 3pm and cost £75 (Acrylics £80).  This includes all of your materials, lunch, wine and refreshments throughout the day.

Our local Framemakers store has been in touch; they are holding a local Art Exhibition and wondered if any Treetops Artists would like to display their work.  If you are interested in submitting up to 3 pieces of work, please email me asap, as all forms and photos need to be in by
27 September.
  There are prizes available, you can sell your work and there will be bubbly on launch day
Saturday 7 October!

COMMUNITY:

During the summer, local social enterprise Recovery in Mind got in touch asking if they could use Treetops as a venue to run Wellbeing Workshops.  RinM run classes in West Berkshire for those with mental health challenges, they are all free and are providing a much needed service.  They rely on funding, grants and donations.

To support them, we thought a great day here for you, with all the proceeds going to RinM would be a great way to support them.

We will have various tutors throughout the day, running classes in pilates, yoga, mindfulness walking, a creative activity, healthy eating and it will be great fun, as our guinea pigs discovered on our recent pilot day!

We have two dates booked; Friday 29 September and Friday 13 October;

timings are 9:30am - approx 3pm and the cost is £80.

Please help us support Recovery in Mind.  For more information about them please click on the link: 

Recovery in Mind

That is all for now!  We hope to see you this term

Best wishes

Emily

They're Here! Summer Art Class Dates!

Yay!  Dates are out!

We've got a good mix of classes coming up in May and June with Claire.

Wednesday 10 May

Rhododendrons

Watercolour

£75

Beautiful colours and shapes, perfect for a wet on wet technique.

Thursday 18 May

Monet's Garden

Watersoluble Oils

£80

This is a great theme to learn and practice with these great oils.

Friday 26 May

Beginners & Refreshers Sunflowers

Watercolour

£75

A really good class to practice your technique or to learn about the joys of Watercolour.  We've had lots of fun with Sunflower classes in previous years.

Tuesday 6 June

Cafe Scene

Acrylics & Collage

£80

Something new; come and play and get creative.  Using acrylic paints and other media to create collage, you will put together a really interesting picture.

Wednesday 28 June

Lazy Summer Days

Watercolour

£75

A classic watercolour day, with washes, blue skies and sketching tips for you to use over the Summer holidays. 

All our Art Class days run from 9.30am - approx 3pm

The price includes all of your materials, tea, coffee and biscuits throughout the day and a two course home cooked lunch with a glass of wine.

To book please email me:

Emily

Acrylic Blossoms Class

A vibrant colourful class with acrylic inks, acrylic paints, pva 'school' glue and crumpled tissue paper.

This is always a fun and enjoyable class 

After wetting the board we dropped colourful inks onto the water, where it spread and did it's own thing.

When dry we put on a layer of PVA glue and spread out a piece of tissue paper, crinkles included, to create a lovely texture

Once it had dried, we wet it again and dropped in a second set of acrylic inks and this became our background for our masterpieces! 

Working from some beautiful photos of Magnolia and Hampshire Apple Blossom, we created shapes, shadow .. and alot of pinks!

Below is tutor Claire demonstrating one of the stages

Acrylic Seascapes

Today was fun, busy, noisy and really creative.

We did this class a few years ago and I loved it.  It reminded me of playschool!  White PVA glue, the little plastic glue spreaders, crumpled tissue paper ..... brilliant!

Our artists dropped some vibrant acrylics inks onto the paper, dried it and then added glue and crumpled tissue, the next stage was rolling out the tissue, so that there were no air bubbles.

Here is Claire demonstrating another layer of colour, creating the idea of water and waves.

Today's key message was to remember to stand back and look at your painting now and again, as otherwise you sit on top of it and can lose perspective.

Here is the gallery of the fantastic paintings:

Below is the mixer full of lovely smelly herbs and tasty ingredients that I turned into a salsa verde to accompany our salmon at lunch, it smelt gorgeous.

Painting Holiday in St Ives with Claire Warner

There are spaces available this July to join Claire in stunning St Ives.

Claire will be running a week's painting holiday in this gorgeous Cornish harbour town.

For further details please contact her via her website:

Creative Painting Holidays

She's chosen a hotel in a great location with views and has some wonderful things planned for the week.  In your free time there are some amazing galleries to visit and of course the Tate on Porthmeor Beach.

Happy New Year - Latest News

(West Wittering - January 2015)

Happy New Year Everyone

I hope you've all had a lovely Christmas and are ready to embrace 2015.

Bookings are well underway for our Art Classes, have a look at the list below and see if there are any that take your fancy:

Wednesday 21 January - Beginners Watercolour

Friday 30 January - Poppies

Wednesday 4 February - A Frosty Morning

Thursday 26 February - Fresh Flowers - Still Life

Tuesday 3 March - Rugged Scotland - Landscape

Wednesday 11 March - Pen, Ink and Wash

Thursday 12 March - Seascapes with Acrylic Inks, Tissue Paper and Acrylics Paints

Tuesday 28 April - How to Simplify a Complicated Picture - A Market Scene

Wednesday 29 April - Reflections in the Sand

Tuesday 12 May - Bluebells

Wednesday 20 May - Cornwall's Sunsets

Tuesday 9 June - Mixed Media

All classes run from 9:30am - approx 3pm and cost £70

This includes all of your materials, a 2 course home cooked lunch with a glass of wine.

We have an AGA class on Friday 6 February

"Making the Most of Your Aga"

with Sarah Whitaker

9.45am - 1.30pm

£65

includes a tasting lunch of all the food cooked, a glass of wine and a copy of all the recipes to take home with you.

Acrylics with Palette Knives

Acrylics returned to our timetable on Wednesday.

A day full of experimenting, colour and texture.

Claire started off demonstrating a Flower Market, showing some clever techniques and styles using various types of palette knives.

As usual there was a great array of inspiration from photographs and paintings. 

After lunch (I must mention the delicious Rachel Allen's Toffee Apple Crumble & Vanilla Ice Cream!) the artists had time for another masterpiece, this time onto a canvas.

We will be putting together our Spring Art dates soon, we are currently taking bookings for:

Beginners Watercolour - Wednesday 21 January

Watercolour Flowers - Thursday 26 February