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  • Brrr 🥶

    Brrr 🥶

    Super frosty workshop last week.  Beginners step by step acrylic winter woodland walk.  Thanks to everyone for making it such a fun morning. Yet again, wonderful to see individual styles coming through. 2025 workshops coming soon …..

  • Autumn is here!

    Autumn is here!

    Lovely morning today, the sun was shining, the sky was blue, the leaves were curly.  Looking at the lights, darks, twists and turns of dried autumn leaves.  More at Wednesday Sketch Club.

  • Glass Painting

    Glass Painting

    Not long now until the next wineglass painting workshop at the super Rural Antics Last few spaces available.

  • Beginners Watercolour

    I have just received some feedback from an afternoon watercolour card  workshop that I ran at the wonderful Rural Antics in Hickling, which I wanted to share with you.  I am chuffed to bits!  “Just to let you know that the workshop on Friday was brilliant. Thank you so much for letting me know that…

  • Challenges

    Challenges

    I had another super day at Rural Antics at the weekend teaching beginners pencil drawing. After various technique activities to get the art side of our brains engaged, I put out the still life for us to work on … a selection of painting equipment to challenge us all. Palettes and paint tubes, perspective and…

  • Happy New Year

    Happy New Year

    I hope everyone had a marvellous Christmas and New Year’s celebration. This was the view on my first day of 2024. Not a bad start to the year!! It has certainly set me up to be raring to go into an art filled 2024. Lots of new workshops to choose from over the next twelve months. So…

  • He’s on his way

    He’s on his way

    ….. Santa Claus is coming to town!!! I know, I know, it’s not for a few weeks but now is the time to be thinking about what he may bring you and your arty friends …. like …. perhaps….. SUE BAGSHAW ARTS VOUCHERS? With a choice of amounts, redeemable against all Sue Bagshaw Arts Oakham…

  • Silk Painting

    Silk Painting

    Silk Painting is something that I have loved for many years (in fact, DECADES). Originally learning about it at a day workshop run by a lovely lady who ran the C&G Pattern Cutting Course I was on at the time. I made a 20cm square panel which I still have and have since made many…

  • The Studio

    The Studio

    Chatting in art class this week we pondered the fact that anyone new wanting to come along to an art class (not just mine) really doesn’t know what to expect. So, here’s a picture of my studio and some art class regulars, enjoying a cuppa and an afternoon of creativity (I feel I ought to…

  • Drawing Day 7th October

    Drawing Day 7th October

    Looking forward to one of my favourite pastimes – pencil drawing! Come and enjoy a full day learning how to get the most out of your sketching pencils (or mine). We’ll cover mark making, negative space, tone, shade, line, shape, blind drawing, and finish by putting everything together to draw a still life. The workshop…