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🎨 Oil painting for beginners — and just look at the progress!
These beautiful blooms are now a few layers in, with rich opaque colour, and glowing warmth that’s straight out of an Old Masters painting.
We’ve been exploring how to build up depth in oils, from transparent underlayers to juicy highlights — and having a lot of fun along the way.
🍇🖌️ If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to paint florals in oils, these sessions are a lovely place to start. I run them at dates and times to suit you, with all materials provided and plenty of tea and encouragement along the way.
💛 📍The Arthouse Oasis, Bishop’s Stortford.
📆 Flexible dates — just get in touch to book your session.
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Abstract Florals in Watercolours.
In this workshop we began with simple, colourful washes before layering expressive pen lines over the top.

Painting cats and dogs in spring.
In this session we combined watercolour with simple pen lines to create pet portraits that captured the character of each pet!

Who says the Old Masters can’t be fun?
In these classes, we took inspiration from some of history’s most famous paintings, recreating iconic masterpieces while adding our own artistic flair.