Easter Weekend News

Wishing you all a Happy Easter, it's so lovely to have the sun out and enjoy being outside and in the garden.

Next week we have a Watercolour Class with Claire

"Boats in the Mediterranean"

It's going to be full of sunshine, blues and beautiful boats.

Come and learn some new skills and techniques enjoy a delicious lunch and relax with a lovely small group of people.  It's always a great day.

Tuesday 11 April

9:30am - 3pm

All of your materials, a 2 course lunch and a glass of wine are included.

£85

Just 3 places left.

Our next Watercolour Class isn't until June, when we will be "Watching the Storm" on Wednesday 28 June; learn how to add action, speed and atmosphere to your watercolours with softness of foam and fluidity of waves, it's a fun one!

Book Watercolour Classes

Towards the end of April we have our Spring Cookery Class.

This is on Thursday 27 April and you can choose from either a morning or evening class, it's demo style with tasting of all the food cooked and a recipe booklet to take home.

10am - 1pm

or

7pm - 10pm

£50

We will be covering seasonal easy dishes to recreate at home, both for family and larger groups of friends and family, we have mains, salads and vegetarian recipes, a delicious cake, a quick pudding and a fresh spring cocktail.

There will be plenty of tips shared, we really hope you can join us.

In our Online Shop we have a Spring Sketch Offer, for just £49.99 you can receive Claire's Watercolour Pad, made from high quality Saunders Waterford paper, the thickest sketch pad on the market, this ring bound pad is ideal for painting outside or on your holidays as it folds flat, and because the paper is so thick it can hold watercolour on both sides.

You also get 3 of Claire's Watercolour paints and a set of 5 Watercolour brushes.

You can buy it here

Whilst you are on the website, have a look at our Online Workshops, we have a great variety of Yoga and Art Workshops for you, perfect for this time of year is our Spring Yoga with Rachel and our Spring Blossom Watercolour with Claire.

Click for Online Workshops

Enjoy the rest of your weekend

Emily

Beginners & Refreshers Watercolour Class

We had a fantastic class this week with 8 new Beginners and 2 Refresher artists.

Their work was unbelievable!

Our theme was Sunset at Lake Ullswater

This worked very well for mastering the first wash of colours over the paper and some beautiful effects happened.

At the start of a Beginners Class, Claire talks about paper, paints and brushes, before everyone enjoys some warming up mixing exercises.

Claire teaches in a step by step style so there is a good steady pace and no overwhelm of information.

For this class we were using a mix of SAA (Supporting All Artists) watercolour paints and Claire's own range of watercolour paints plus lovely thick paper from St Cuthberts Mill in Somserset, it absorbs the water really well for this wet in wet technique.

We let the first wash dry and enjoyed a delicious lunch of Pomegranate Salmon, honey and pecan potato salad, sesame broccoli and a raspberry fool.

(we cater for vegetarians, food allergies and intolerances)

Artists learnt plenty of skills in this class to take away with them.

We even got onto glazing across the water, which has really added to the paintings.

We hope to see you all back again to paint at Treetops!

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Our next class is on Tuesday 11 April

Boats in the Mediterranean

beautiful blue colours, reflections and sunshine!

9:30am - 3pm

£85

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Spring Flowers Watercolour

 

We welcomed 9 artists to Treetops today for our Spring Flowers Workshop, our first painting was of some pretty primroses coming through the undergrowth.

Claire demonstrates in stages, after the initial faint drawing and placing of the flowers, a little bit of masking fluid and mixing of paints, the above photo shows the first wash.

 

After a rest away from the paintings as we let them dry, we moved into the Hall for a delicious lunch of kedgeree, slow roasted tomatoes and a watercress & mandarin salad, followed by a delicious gingerbread cake, poached pears and vanilla creme fraiche desert.  And for some a much needed glass of wine!

After lunch, the artists embarked on a looser and freer crocus painting

Thanks everyone for coming, see you again

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Our Online Watercolour Snowdrop Workshop is still available to buy from our website

HERE

£10 from each sale goes to Hospice UK

We have sent £1390 to them for January and February, help us reach £1500!

Many thanks

Wake Up and Wind Down Yoga

 

Our latest Online Yoga video is a Wake Up and Wind Down Yoga Workshop, many of you asked for it at our AromaYoga classes.

Bought as one film, you can wake up and stretch in an 11 minute sequence with Rachel, to send you on your way ready for the day ahead and then later relax and wind down ready for a good night's sleep (18 minutes).

Just £5, yours to download and keep, you can watch it as many times as you need to.

Rachel has a soothing voice and will help you with some breathing exercises and gentle stretches to align your body and mind.

Buy it here

Winter Yin Yoga Online Workshop

Rachel has been back at Treetops to finish our fourth season in our online yoga collection, Winter.

Filmed by the fireside with cosy cushions and blankets, this gentle hour focuses on gentle and relaxing Yin Yoga. It is suitable for all levels, including beginners (but not if you are pregnant).

Yin targets the deepest tissues of our bodies, our connective tissues such as ligaments, joints, bones and the deep fascia in the body, it is the opposite to a vinyasa yoga practice that warms up and stretches the muscles. 

Yin Yoga helps alleviate stress and restore energy levels.

(Yin is great if you are a runner, I know some of you who are practicing for half marathons and 10k races at the moment, this would be ideal for you, but also ideal if like me you just enjoy gentle lying down yoga!)

The class is £10 with an accompanying Spotify playlist, or you can just listen to the fire crackle and the birds tweet around the feeding station on the verandah.

Available to buy from our website

HERE

"Rachel is an excellent yoga teacher and following her online workshops has been really easy . Rachel gives clear instructions and the pace feels just right. All the workshops at Treetops are set in such a beautiful environment - you can hear the birds singing and the cows mooing in the background of the outside workshops! I always feel so much better afterwards". MB

PS:  All of our online workshops are professionally filmed with great sound quality, editing and can be watched in HD. Once downloaded onto your computer, laptop, ipad or phone they are yours to keep, to rewatch again and again, press pause, rewind, etc.