Emerald Woods Workshop

Rod was along way from home today--Clacton -On Sea in Essex...his wife booked him in as a surprise after meeting us in July on the market! He has never painted before but soon got the hang of it! Emerald Woods is a good painting to start with---its acrylic and very forgiving--if there are any bits you done like you can easily dry the paint and go over it again-until you are happy with it! You get lots of practise doing trees--and its always interesting to see how much the students improve with each row of trees we put in!

Jan had a gift voucher for Christmas to use...along with her friend June ..Jan liked the pond on one of the paintings I had already done as an example---it was heart-shaped and she made a lovely job of painting hers..amazing just how different everyone interprets what i show them when I do each section...

June was a tad nervous to begin with as she had never painted anything other than a wall before in her life,however she soon settled down to it and actually seemed to find it really easy-and surprised herself!

it was lovely to see everyone making their own decisions on where to place things and what colours to use etc after just a short time without any prompting from me....it never fails to amaze me--and is the one part of the job I really enjoy..

nearly finished...

Rods painting took on a really enchanted look--and he got the hang of doing the really fine branches very well

There is the option of leaving the painting monochrome or using oils to add some colour...Jan was the only one in the group who wanted to add some colour--and then only a slight hint of colour--the other 2 just used white oil paint to add a beautiful shimmer to the water.

The end results--everyone went away happy and with beautiful paintings----Rods wife came back to pick him up and I heard her and their daughter in laws reaction to it outside!!!! WOW !!!!!