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Here’s a snapshot from one of our Zorn palette portrait sessions 🎨 — using only four colours (white, black, yellow ochre, and cadmium red), students explored how to create beautiful skin tones, contrast, and light from a single reference image.
These portraits, painted side-by-side, demonstrate how much personal interpretation and variation can emerge even when starting from the same subject.
This classic limited palette technique is perfect for building tonal confidence and understanding colour harmony.
Join us in Bishop’s Stortford and learn how to paint portraits step by step in a relaxed, supportive studio environment.
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After School 121’s
We started with a simple underwater scene, then built it up step by step — adding colour, texture and all those little details that bring it to life.
Paintings Robins, a popular bird to paint!
We kept it nice and simple to start with, then built up the layers — background first, then branches, and finally that little pop of colour with the robin.
Painting like the Impressionists
You can really feel that Monet influence, but still with everyone’s own twist.
