Tag: Rutland
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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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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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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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So, that was Christmas
A big build up and then it’s all over in the twinkling of an eye. I hope you all enjoyed the Christmas you wanted. Next, New Years Eve then off we go into 2025. Classes are filling up and workshops are in the diary. Shop classes and workshops 2025 As usual, I enjoy gathering inspiration…
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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 …..
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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.
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Quirky
Another lovely Saturday morning workshop drawing ‘quirky’ buildings in pen and watercolour. My super group all embraced the instruction to jump straight in with pen and to stay loose (no tracing, pencils or rubbers allowed😬) and they all produced some wonderful images. My favourite bit, as always, is everyone putting their own style into their…
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Tulips Galore
Such a nice way to spend a Saturday morning. Learning some techniques for drawing flowers then painting them with watercolour. More workshops coming up throughout the year at: http://www.suebagshawarts.co.uk