Tulips Watercolour

The sun was shining and we enjoyed a colourful day studying and painting Tulips with watercolour.

Beautiful backgrounds and gorgeous flowers

Lunch was Saffron & Honey chicken with braised split peas and this colourful Red Cabbage and Quinoa salad

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!

Stormy Seas & Stormy Skies Watercolour

We had a brilliant day with Claire today painting Stormy Seas & Stormy Skies

To start with we used a heayweight paper, 300lb Saunders Waterford from St Cuthbert's Mill in Somerset, we needed this for the amount of water we were using, the building up of rocks with texture paste and the scraping technique that was then used.

Here are some close ups of the textured areas

We also used toothbrushes to spray effect crashing waves

Classes Galore!

We've been so busy with classes recently, mix that in with a new phone (learning how to transfer photos over to the computer!) and a family wedding, I'm afraid I've got slightly behind on blogging our classes.  

So to follow will be a summary of our recent classes which consisted of Watercolour, Papercutting and Free From Cookery

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Claire and I had ran a Sunday Watercolour class for the first time and our theme was St Ives Harbour, the pictures were amazing, it was a long day, Claire included so many techniques!

Lucy returned to run a Personalised Papercutting Class, this was great as everyone had sent Lucy the names and celebrations they wanted on their cards and Lucy prepared the templates before the class.

We had a delicious lunch of Spring Risotto with wild garlic, and slow roasted tomatoes with toasted seeds.