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Chinese Watercolour

Chinese Watercolour & Ink Brush Stroke Painting

Chinese Watercolour
Discover the art of Chinese watercolor painting and refine your brush control with gentle watercolors. Through our course, you will learn to create five beautiful paintings depicting birds, insects, flowers, bamboo, and landscapes featuring land and water.
Fun with resin

Fun with Resin

Fun with resin
Learn how to colour, use glitter, dyes and shimmering metallic.  Take home your own breadboard and different small pieces to make magnets or jewellery.

Oil Painting & Techniques



Learn under painting with acrylic paint as a base and paint with oil paints on top.  Learn how to paint wet on dry and wet on wet.  You will be shown step by step how to work with these Old Masters's favourite paints. All materials are supplied.

Pen & Wash


Learn about washes of watercolour and detailed pen work on watercolour paper and how to use your materials while you work on your own artwork.  Create your own unique piece of artwork to take home.
Pour painting

Pour Painting

Pour painting
Easy and fun, this style of acrylics is simple and easy to follow as the tutor takes you one step at a time to create 4 small canvases in one day. You will do a pour creating cells with the paint, a string feather pull, a chain flower pull and a seascape pour.

Watercolour Painting & Techniques


A day of learning how to paint with watercolours, learn techniques and tips to build on your skills in this beautiful medium. We will work on one smaller A4 study along with numerous techniques 

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