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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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A video peek inside our first Bob Ross workshop.
Check out this short video showing our artists getting creative with soft pastel colours and trying oil paint, some for the very first time!

Check out our amazing Bob Ross Paintings!
If you would like to paint like this, message us today. Our next 2 Bob Ross Painting Workshops will be going live soon!

We’ve started painting like Bob Ross!
Thanks to an amazing accredited tutor, @ianmcdcri, our seascapes this week have been next level.
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