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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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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.
