Tropical Sunset Watercolour

Our final class of term was Tropical Sunset Watercolour with Claire

A great opportunity to create stunning washes

Great paintings!

Inspired by Portmeirion Watercolour Class

We recently held a Watercolour class inspired by Portmeirion, it's colour, buildings, architecture and setting.

Portmeirion is an Italianate village in North Wales.

There was quite alot of drawing in this one to start with, we had some very talented freehand artists in the group

The next stage was to add masking fluid to keep the whites

I had received this fantastic box of Heritage tomatoes from the Isle of Wight Tomato company, great colour and flavours, which I used in the class lunch, we had baked salmon and tomato alongside a wild rice, chickpea and feta salad.

After lunch, the mixing palette, paints and washes came out, here are the finished paintings

Thanks everyone for a lovely day

Autumn Term Art dates are now out ...

We have finished our Art classes with Claire for the term.

We wish you all a lovely Summer.

Autumn Term dates are now open for booking:

Thursday 5 September

Coastal Blues Watercolour

Tuesday 1 October

Beginners & Refreshers

Thursday 10 October

Autumn Woodland Watercolour

Friday 11 October

Swathes of Sunflowers

Friday 1 November

Capturing the Light in Oils

(inspired by artist Sorolla)

Tuesday 5 November

Stormy Seas & Stormy Skies Watercolour

Wednesday 6 November

Venice Watercolour

Thursday 5 December

Winter Scene Watercolour

Friday 6 December

Winter Scene Pen & Wash

All of our classes cost £75

(*£80 for Oils and Pen & Wash)

this includes all of your materials for the day along with a 2 course lunch and a glass of wine and refreshments throughout the day.

To book please email Emily

A Room with a View Watercolour

Our 'Room with a View' Watercolour class had some lovely images from St Ives in Cornwall.

We were looking at images taken from a higher view, a different perspective to paint from and a useful technique to learn if you are on holiday with your sketchbook.

The images here are when dawn is breaking in St Ives over the town and church

There are some beautiful skies here produced by some very clever washes and a lovely perspective of looking down on the town and tops of trees

These two are of the harbour, looking down into the bay, at this perspective you catch the sea behind the pier and the houses which is a lovely addition to the painting.

Afternoon Tea Watercolour

Wednesday's Watercolour Class with Claire was all about Afternoon Tea in the Garden

With beautiful colours

The morning started with some drawing of the teapot, cup and saucer, milk jug and the cake stand

Placed on a table with a pretty tablecloth, it was time to start creating our background washes

Showing a hint of roses, hollyhocks, lupins in the background

We had a variety of flowers in the jugs and indeed a selection of pretty jugs, especially the one above!

The cake stands were full of strawberries, scones, sandwiches and cupcakes.

I knew a normal lunch wouldn't really work today, so we had an Afternoon Tea instead, full of delicious savoury and sweet treats served with a selection of teas, it really did hit the spot!

Mushroom and Pine Nut Tarts

Egg & Cress, Salmon Chive & Cream Cheese and Cucumber sandwiches

Strawberry or Gin & Tonic Meringues made by Emma at Wooden Spoon Macarons in Cold Ash.

Mini caramel, cream and strawberry tarts

Scones with clotted cream and raspberry jam

An amazing Limoncello Drizzle Cake

Gorgeous Banoffee Tarts, I loved the touch of brushing melted dark chocolate into the pastry cases before filling.

And finally some mini pink meringues.