Sunsets Watercolour - St Michael's Mount

Last week we had a great group in to paint Watercolour Sunsets.

Claire had chosen St Michael's Mount in Cornwall as the image.

After the drawing, everyone mixed up their paints before laying out their washes.

The finished paintings were full of glow and atmosphere

We had a delicious lunch of Fish & Fennel Stew served with home made sourdough bread and some summer fruit sundaes to finish.

It was a Bucks-Fizz celebratory lunch as it was Claire's birthday the following day and there were some beautifully painted cards given ...

I managed to get a photo of everyone with Claire before they went home.

Thank you everyone for coming, it was a great day.

Claire is now off to Marlborough College Summer School to teach for 4 weeks, classes will resume in October.

If you need any summer Art Materials don't forget to have a look in our Online Shop.  We have a Summer Sketch Kit Offer available at the moment.

Our popular Online Watercolour Workshops are also available, just £27 each, treat yourself to one for the summer and let me know what you think.

Finding Balance Aromayoga

 

We had a lovely evening with Rachel and seven yogis for our Finding Balance Aroma Yoga Workshop.

A very relaxing yin workshop with a beautiful piano soundtrack in the background.

Rachel shared various oils with us, talking about their properties and benefits.

After class we stay wrapped in the savasana duvets whilst enjoying a warm drink and delicious nibbles

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Poppies Watercolour

A bright and beautiful day yesterday as we painted Poppies in Watercolour with Claire.

There were plenty of poppy photographs to choose from, so everyone could choose their own composition and sketch it out with pencil, ensuring that one of the poppies was the star of the painting.

Using masking fluid the artists outlined the poppies and coloured in their seed heads.

Followed by a really bright first wash full of colour, with dashes of red to be out of focus poppies in the background.

Claire teaches in a step by step style and due to our small groups you receive plenty of attention and support with your painting.

We stopped for lunch and wine, today the menu was cajun chicken with a mexican quinoa salad, served with slow roasted tomato, olives and pine nuts.

Here are some of the beautiful paintings of Poppies ...

The two ladies below were beginners and new to Treetops, look at their amazing paintings, absolutely brilliant!

Thank you to everyone for coming, it was a lovely lovely day.

Beautiful Isles of Scilly Watercolour Class

We had a lovely day yesterday with Claire imagining ourselves on The Isles of Scilly with its blue skies, warm sunshine and clear seas.

We learnt about mixing colours and creating beautiful washes.

Our finished gallery of paintings looked amazing.

We enjoyed a lovely lunch and ended our day very happy with our paintings.

Claire returns on Thursday 26 May for Poppies Watercolour, a bright and beautiful subject, we still have some spaces available, please visit the website to see more details:

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Bluebells Watercolour - We are Back!

It was great to welcome back some artists for our first Watercolour class after 25 months!

Beautiful Bluebells; as well as watercolour paints we used texture paste for the pathway and pva glue and tissue paper to create texture for our trees.

We were joined by someone from the new local magazine Made in the Shire, who wrote a lovely review which I thought I'd share with you below:

What a day we had yesterday! We were lucky enough to experience one of Treetops Watercolour Workshops in Newbury, along with many other lovely people.

Treetops is such a stunning venue surrounded by countryside, and our Watercolour Tutor, Claire, was super at explaining every clearly and teaching us how to create our own pieces of art.

Included in our ticket was hot drinks, yummy cake, a very wholesome lunch, followed by a calming glass of wine.

The stroll round the grounds after lunch gave us all even more energy and inspiration to finish our creations, which we took home with us.

A highly recommend experience, either for yourself or as a gift for someone special!

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We enjoyed a delicious lunch of chicken & parma ham roulade, with wild rice, wild garlic and artichoke salad, and a crunchy bright vegetable salad with mustard dressing.  Dessert was Raspberry Cream Crush.

We are back for another Watercolour Class on 11 May, which is the stunning Isle of Scilly.

World Art Day 2022

 

Celebrating World Art Day with some images from how we share the art love at Treetops.

Great company, fun, learning, beautiful setting and delicious food.

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