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Watercolour Techniques

April 6, 2026
Watercolour Techniques Colour Palette for Pears: Phthalo Blue, Cadmium Yellow, Lemon Yellow,...

Kick-starting your Painting when in a Block - Annie Monk

November 22, 2025
Kick-starting your Painting when in a Block - Annie Monk A painting 'block' happens to all of...

Mixing Colours - Kevin Sculley

January 22, 2025
Mixing Colours with Kevin Sculley Using a colour wheel and basic colour theory will help in...

Creating Botanical Books

September 4, 2024
The technique of using Gelli plates and rollers to create collage papers, can be used for a...

Painting Freely without fear

April 25, 2024
In trying to paint freely its essential to loosening up. Work quickly initially and then slow...

Ann Spencer's - Note book making

February 14, 2024
Anne spencer’s flour glue 1 heaped tbsp strong white flour mixed with 250ml water. Heat over a...

Portraits with oil paints - with Jenny Faye 

November 29, 2023
Jenny Faye took us through painting portraits using a limited colour palette of paints. She...

Lovely Lemons

November 15, 2023
Project Ideas When life hands you lemons, make art (and cake) with them! In addition to being...

Jonathan Newey

May 17, 2023
Jonathan took us through creating a watercolour painting using pen and ink, where we all used the...

WOODCUT & WATERCOLOUR

April 6, 2023
PREPARING THE PLATE: Design your image on paper to suit the size of the plywood – it will need...

FIGURE SKETCHING

October 15, 2022
Mandy Monkcom, a local artist, guided us through creating figure sketches from images. Create...

MOUNTING ARTWORK AND ADDING DETAIL

September 7, 2022
Large abstract artwork can be cut and mounted onto paper for a modern tonal piece.

Mark making with collage papers

September 7, 2022
Mark making using inks can be made with various tools and really helps to get away from precise...

Making a 'Cola' Dipping Pen

September 7, 2022
'Cola' dipping pens are a simple way to make a range of dipping pens with different nibs. You...

Pastel Portrait Top Tips

March 16, 2022 · Pastels
Take time to get a good composition on the page. Make sure yoou have the eyelash line, nostrils...

Creating your own collage papers

  Jane has created these 2 videos (amazing work), to illustrate techniques in creating your own...

Watercolour Doodles

A lovely loosening and freeing exercise, using watercolours. Add design detail by doodling with...

Monoprinting: Colour Line & Layer

September 7, 2021
Fantastic workshop with Karen Carter, experimenting with monoprinting using several mediums.  Its...

Watercolour Mixing

May 1, 2019 · Watercolours
Stuart very kindly brought in a guide about colour mixing this week with a suggested colour...
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    Watercolour Techniques

    April 6, 2026
    Watercolour Techniques Colour Palette for Pears: Phthalo Blue, Cadmium Yellow, Lemon Yellow, Permanent Rose (mixed with Cad Yellow for the ‘blush’ on pears), Ultramarine Blue & Burnt Umber for underpainting shadow colour – Burnt Umber is also good for knocking the brightness out of the darker...

    Kick-starting your Painting when in a Block - Annie Monk

    November 22, 2025
    Kick-starting your Painting when in a Block - Annie Monk A painting 'block' happens to all of us a some time. Here are some techniques to over come it; Prompts and Ideas for Inspiration: - Observe and study art in magazines, books, catalogues and the internet. - Visit exhibitions in...

    Mixing Colours - Kevin Sculley

    January 22, 2025
    Mixing Colours with Kevin Sculley Using a colour wheel and basic colour theory will help in creating blended colours using 3 basic primary colours - Cyan or process blue, process yellow and Magenta. Secondary colours are blends of the primary colours on a 50% of each colour. Bear in mind...

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