Latest September News from Treetops

Hello Everyone
We've missed you

Thank you to all of you who have kept in touch during our closed period, it's been very strange not having you at Treetops for our classes.

We will be staying closed a little while longer whilst things settle down from Covid, as I want you all to be able to enjoy your relaxing Treetops day in the 'good old days' style!

I hope you've all managed to stay well and busy, perhaps picked up a new hobby or two? I've been mastering some jigsaws and making pictures with shells from my trips to Cornwall.

Claire and I have got together a few times and we are working on something fantastic to share with you shortly!

Keep an eye on your emails, the Treetops website, blog and facebook for when we make our announcement.

If you have created some artwork during lockdown and you would like to share it with us, I will be putting together a blog post shortly and would love to have a photo of it.

Best wishes Emily

Winter Scene Watercolour

A festive sparkly class today with Claire

The morning was spent drawing and masking

There were some beautiful washes created for the skies and water

Lovely reflections and bullrushes

and the addition of glitter!

Father & Daughter with their great paintings ready to become Christmas Cards!

I'm now off to hoover up the glitter before tomorrow's class!

Beautiful Buildings Watercolour

Our recent class with Claire, Beautiful Buildings

This class was all about looking for the beauty in old and forgotten buildings, their structure, their doors, windows, brickwork, setting etc ..

A great opportunity to get out the texture paste to create some effect for the brickwork, and also to work with pens as well as the watercolour paints.

There were so many new techniques learnt it was a great day.

Claire is back next week for our new class, an Introduction to Brusho Paints,

these are vibrant little pots of powdered paint, that create great effects, whether on their own dropped into water or mixed with the water before applying.  I can't wait to see the finished paintings.

There are a few places left if you would like to join us

Wednesday 17 April

9:30am - approx 3pm

£80

Loose and Free Watercolour Class

Our last class of term was a Watercolour one with Claire.

Titled Loose and Free

Using plenty of water and a limited palette of colour

These pretty flowers in the stripy jug are beautiful

After lunch we switched to a Venice scene, soft washes and dark silhouettes.

At the end of the class everyone had a go at these cute little cats, no drawing just straight in with the paint .... Loose and Free ...

Dates for next term can be found on the dates page, bookings are being taken now.  Come and learn how to paint in 2019!

Beginners and Refreshers Watercolour

It was a beautiful sight yesterday morning to see a mother deer and her two little ones eating at the bottom of the garden!

We had a group of Beginner and Refresher artists in yesterday

Claire spends the first part of the morning explaining about brushes, paper and paints.

Everyone can then have a play with the water and paints, watching how it moves, creating different shades of colour, working out how much pigment is needed to create stunning colours.

Today's painting was a lovely blue door, touching on plant pots and hanging baskets, pathways and brickwork.

There were some great Blue Doors!