Welcome to The Arthouse Oasis
Watercolour Riverscene
This week’s watercolour session focused on painting peaceful riverscapes with bridges, trees, and reflections.
Rocks and Waterfalls
From textured cliffs to waterfalls, this beginners acrylic painting session explored how to layer colour and shape to create rock and water scenes.
Proportion and shading
In our Bishop’s Stortford drawing sessions, students learn how to block in key shapes, build tonal value, and express character — all with just pencil and paper.
Zorn Palette Painting Sessions
Students exploring how to create beautiful skin tones, contrast, and light from a single reference image and just four colours.
Capturing the beauty of home!
This week’s acrylic painting session focused on a cherished family garden — filled with colour, light, and personal meaning.
Finished Oil Painting Success!
This multi-session oil painting course is all about creating bold, textured flowers. We explore colour, layering and different techniques to produce these beautiful paintings to take home.
Fantasy drawings
Students have been bringing fantasy to life with these stunning elf-inspired pencil portraits
More portrait studies
Working from reference photos, students practised measuring proportions, building structure, and adding subtle shading to create realistic, balanced drawings
Learning to blend in watercolours
From golden sunsets to fields of wildflowers, students explored both loose washes and fine details to bring their landscapes to life.
Exploring The Human Form Through Pencil Drawing
In our recent classes, we’ve been diving deep into two of the most expressive subjects an artist can tackle – hands and faces.
Soft petals, delicate branches, and dreamy washes of colour
This week we explored the beauty of flowers through watercolour.
Cooling down with a snowy landscape
Winter came to life in our studio this week as students painted snowy landscapes using acrylics.
Design Your Own Dream Cupcake!
In our latest session, we used coloured pencils to sketch and bring to life the most delicious-looking cupcakes.
Paint in the Garden with Gabrielle
Join us for a relaxing outdoor painting session. No tuition, just get creative outdoors.
Exploring the subtleties of skin tone with the Zorn palette.
Using four colours to layer, sculpt form, and understand the planes of the face.
Painting Paradise in Acrylics
Last week’s young artists created stunning seascapes bursting with colour, light, and texture!
Realism in Pencil – From Still Life to Pets
We explored how to draw what we truly see — not just what we think we see.
A Special 1:1 Portrait Session
This young artist spent a focused one-to-one session drawing portraits of her family members — and what a fantastic job she did!
Acrylic landscapes from imagination and life.
Our students have been exploring acrylic painting techniques
Rolling Art Projects
This floral acrylic painting is part of my rolling art project — perfect if you’d like to build up a piece over a few flexible sessions
Bumble bees in bloom!
Our young artists painted vibrant wildflower meadows filled with bees, butterflies, and joy.
