Course Type: Day Workshop (also available as part of a Weekend Break)

November 24 2012 - Saturday
1 day 10.30am – 4.30pm
Suitability: Beginner/intermediate
Fee: £48 includes lunch hot drinks etc

Studio painting day- Christmas Still Life

Tutor Catherine Stott

This is a Studio based still life and plant painting day course using watercolour pastel or mixed media. Choose your own medium or bring both. We will compose and paint a Christmas themed still life including winter plants, flowers and other objects. Alternatively you can work from close up photographs of winter scenes in a garden. This subject matter is very suitable to reproduce as your own Christmas card. Please feel free to bring your own contributions for this seasonal subject. Bring either watercolour or pastels and sketching materials. Small group with individual advice on drawing, composition, colour mixing and painting skills in your chosen medium.
Materials Sketching materials (sketch book and pencils), watercolours and brushes and/or basic pastels and suitable paper required. Contact the artist for more advice on what to bring
Also recommended- protective clothing for painting. Digital camera.


Other costs Bring your usual materials as above. If you run short of art paper, there is usually a selection available to purchase by the sheet in the studio.

Tutor Biography
Catherine Stott is a painter/printmaker and mosaicist, and experienced art tutor. Artist in residence at Hexham Abbey 2005 and at Morpeth Gathering 2007/8, she holds the R.H.S. Certificate in Horticulture, and has taught with poets and storytellers