Category: art workshops
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Degas, eat your heart out
Who says you can’t whip up a ballerina in acrylic in two hours! Lovely to see the group this morning, ready to accept the challenges that painting people always bring. Well done everyone! I can’t believe the year is nearly over and that was the last painting workshop of 2025. More dates are up in…
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Brrrr
Another fun evening at The Old Buttercross, Oakham, last night. Wonderful to see some familiar faces as well as some new ones. This month it was the crisp and even winter woodland walk in acrylic and, as ever (with just a little help from some bubbly) all the results were amazing and as individual as…
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River Etive and Buachaille Etive Mòr
From a beautiful photograph (courtesy of James Booth) of Autumn in all its glory with the backdrop of the Scottish Highlands, came today’s painting workshop. I had a lovely morning welcoming regulars, as well as some new faces, getting to grips with a palette knife to create some colourful landscapes. As ever, super results with…
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Busy busy.
What an amazing couple of days. 25 artists for the rainbow highland coo Paint & Prosecco at the Old Buttercross, Oakham. It was a roasting hot evening but we managed to produce a fantastic collection of coos! Thanks to everyone for coming along, some not for the first time. See you again soon. Then a…
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Mucho Guano
Inflicting another holiday snap onto my students, this week’s class was experimenting with vertical multicolour brush strokes, to imply rocks, and simplifying shapes, to create straightforward repeatable images of gulls and guilimots (we think 🤦🐧🐦⬛). Nice!
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Making Waves
Another great workshop this morning. Painting crashing waves gave, at least a sense of, a feeling of a cool sea breeze. Perfect on a hot day As usual, following and trusting in what has colloquially become known as “The Process”, all the paintings were a great success. A result of which is two more acrylic…
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Kentish Lobster Pots
More inspiration from my trip to Kent. This time, enjoying a fisherman’s roll (loads of battered fish scraps, covered in tartar sauce, in a soft roll (😋) courtesy of the Dungeness Snack Shack) looking out over this pile! Couldn’t not, really.
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What’s pinky orange and stands on one leg (sometimes 😏)
Well, we had Fauvist flamingos, fluffy flamingoes, fancy flamingoes, flouncy flamingoes and…… Exploding flamingoes. Just another day at the office for Paint & Prosecco at the Hub, Morcott. Great evening! More painting workshops coming up. Next week at The Old Buttercross and more in the shop.
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Spring at the Hub
Lovely first workshop last night at The Hub at Rutland Point in Morcott. Paint & prosecco is a fine combination! (including Nosecco for the drivers) A fun group buzzing with individual style! More workshops to come but until then, workshops at the Oakham studio can be found here
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Painting the Algarve
I had my holiday in the Algarve last year. Not the first time I was there but the first time in over 50 years! I was so taken with the colour of the cliffs against the sky and the sea that I had to create a painting workshop to celebrate it. The picture was of…