Finally, a chance to post some pictures from our lovely Italian trip to Umbria. It was a great week with a very special group from all around the globe. Quite a few new to coloured pencils or at least my way of colouring in and some excellent results. The sun shone all week and we had a fun day out visiting Montefalco, hilltop town and seeing the wonderful Benozzo Gozzoli frescos followed...
Workshops
The Italian Trip
Snippets from my Garden plus a few of the Bowood Rhodis
We are blessed and bathed with sunshine here in Wiltshire and the garden is responding by bursting into bloom. For once just at the right time as we have our first three-day 'Big and Blowsy' workshop here next week.'b...
Cake and Colour Theory
This weeks studio workshop on 'Creative Colour Mixing, certainly gave everyone food for thought and hopefully, provided an insight into the way we perceive and react to colour.This student reacted by going for the Costa cake!And again!!I sense a theme here. Yet more cake, this time...
Shiny Leaf Step-by-Step
I have just spent a delightful weekend teaching some very enthusiastic students at the glorious RHS Gardens at Harlow Carr. A truly magical venue made all the better by the addition of the famous 'Betty's Teashop. The weekend was marred only by the rain, which made a visit to the excellent Harrogate Spring Flower Show a very muddy experience; the traffic made worse by the addition of the BBC Food Fair...