'Fast and Free' Hares- Painting Workshop at White Dove Gallery, Shenton!

January 16, 2024

March 9th 10 am - 3 pm £70.00 Booking is through Tim at White Dove Gallery Phone: 07890 002127

At the White Dove Gallery, Shenton

Address: The Old Village Hall, Shenton CV13 6DP

All the materials needed for the day are provided, Spend the day with me painting, learning and socialising with a small group of friendly artists and take home your own unique and beautiful hare painting. Tea. coffee and cake included!

This workshop is suitable for beginners and seasoned artists alike. The focus will be on creating a painting with looseness and movement, using acrylic paints and acrylic inks. Simplify, free up your style and let the paint do (most of the) work! I will demonstrate the steps of my process throughout - I work in layers, so while I encourage you to paint spontaneously- there is plenty of time to relax in between layers. Hares are so beautiful: Shaggy yet elegant, scruffy and sleek, lollopy and engaging- they lend themselves very well to this type of painting technique.

A beautiful location in which to paint, light, warm and airy surrounded by inspirational art! This is a lovely opportunity to relax away from it all, whether you are already an experienced painter or someone who fancies trying out a new hobby.

Wear clothing that can cope with an accidental splash of paint, and get ready to have fun, relax and learn.

This workshop is suitable for 18 and over. Please be advised that the workshop is upstairs at the gallery.

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A Stampede of Colourful Highland Cows!

October 30, 2023

Here are some of the photos from our lovely Highland Cow painting workshop at the weekend. The gallery is a wonderful space in which to relax and paint, with plenty of artistic inspiration all around! Everybody did terrifically well and got on like a house on fire too!

Painting a Colourful Highland Cow

October 28, 2023

Learning to Paint a Rainbow Highland Cow!

Today is my painting workshop at the gallery Creative Melbourne, in Melbourne Derbyshire. I set up the space yesterday afternoon so that all of the easels and canvases etc are ready to go when we all arrive this morning. We shall be making very vivid Highland Cow paintings I am sure, as Im taking 26 different colour tubes of paint including some sparkly pearlised paints. It will be a small group of six, today painting up in the mezzanine gallery, which is a lovely space to work in, above the art gallery itself which fills two floors below.

Spare Cake

I have baked two cakes for the occasion. Partially because I’m never sure my cake will rise! So I did a ‘spare’ and they both rose beautifully so now we have two. ‘Spare cake’ is surely one of the happiest phrases in the English language.

A Big Hairy Beast

We will be basing our painting loosely on this big colourific chap above, although each piece will be as unique as the artist who paints it. We typically have at least two or three total beginners in my workshops, which is always exciting. I haven’t met any of the artists joining me today, so I will find out about experience levels once everyone arrives. Some attendees are coming from a little farther afield today, so I hope everyone has had a nice journey to get here. I will post photos from the day’s activities later on.

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Paint your own cow!

My Colourful Rainbow Highland Cow Workshops are always popular, and I have been asked to hold a half day session at Sharpes Pottery Museum in November. This will be a step by step painting workshop, on how to create a colourful highland cow from start to finish! Dont worry if you have never painted since school, beginners and more experienced artists are all very welcome / I simplify the process, breaking it down into fun steps. You can have a pre-drawn canvas too, to allow you to relax and focus on your colour choices.
Book online, the Saturday afternoon workshop/class is £60 including all your materials, and refreshments - just bring yourself. This is an ideal pre-Christmas treat and would also make a lovely girft for a loved one. Why not team up for a friends’ day out?!

Paint a Highland Cow - Half Day Course

July 26, 2023

Which paint do I use?

January 27, 2023

I have had a few requests recently asking which paints I use in my workshops. So far, all of my workshop days have been using acrylic paints, because they dry really fast and this allows artists to easily take away their paintings at the end of the day. I have used several different brands of acrylic paint, and these Daler Rowney System 3 are the ones that I have found striking the right balance between quality and affordability. The colours are nice and bright, and there is a good choice. They seem to stay usable in the palette for longer than some of the others, too. I use the big tubs because we get through such a lot of paint, but these are also available in smaller tubes. I’ll share links to the places that I buy mine here here,

Highland Cow painting demonstration

September 11, 2022

rainbow highland cow with flowers — A painting in progress, Cow with flowers

I am available to give demonstrations and workshops for art clubs and groups. Get in touch for detailsThis week I am getting ready to give a demo at a local art club. I like to take along some sample pieces, as well as painting one ‘live’ for the event.