DIARY, NEWS AND EVENTS

WATERCOLOUR PAINTING CLASSES

My Watercolour classes are held in term time at Bramcote near Beeston and Attenborough, Nottingham. The subjects we paint are landscapes, flowers, seascapes, animals and birds, we also practise drawing, pen and wash and colour mixing. The classes are friendly and relaxing, absolute beginners and intermediates are welcome. Everyone brings their own watercolour painting equipment but I have got some items to borrow. Please contact me on 0115 925 6811 or scott-art@ntlworld.com if you are interested in coming along. More details on venues, days and times can be found on my teaching page.

     

GWEN'S PAINTINGS

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

Here are some of my class projects

     

     

     

     

Here are two of my recent watercolour paintings taken from holiday photos in Ireland and Anglesey.

    

    

WATERCOLOUR ROSES AT HOPTON HALL 2024

I've enjoyed painting in the rose garden at Hopton Hall near Ashbourne this July taking part in their 'Month of Art' . I am delighted to say that my painting was voted the winner at their exhibition and has been bought by Hopton Hall. It was fascinating to see all the different paintings of the beautiful grounds and flower garden in the final exhibition.

     

LEISURE PAINTER ART MAGAZINE SUMMER 2019 ARTICLE

In this edition I’ve written about how to paint a white flower on white paper without using any white paint. The shadows on the petals are built up in layers of transparent watercolours and the background is painted in dark colours wet-in-wet to make the flower stand out.

WATERCOLOUR PAINTING CLASSES IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

Come and try a new hobby and meet new friends join one of my weekly watercolour classes at Attenborough, Bramcote and Chilwell near Beeston, Nottingamshire. Absolute beginners are welcome with friendly tuition in a relaxed atmosphere. Look on the teaching page for the times and locations and if you would like to know more please email or call me.

LEISURE PAINTER ART MAGAZINE 2018 ARTICLE AUTUMN LANDSCAPE

I‘ve just written and illustrated my 8th article for the Leisure Painter Art Magazine. It was lovely to see that my painting has been used on the front cover of the November issue.

    

HOW TO PAINT WATERCOLOUR LANDSCAPES BOOK

My book has sadly just gone out of print and I no longer have any copies to sell, if anyone wants to purchase the book try Amazon for the last remaining copies. The book however which has already been previously translated into Italian has now been translated into French as “Je Peins, Les Paysages A L’Aquarelle” and is on sale now in France.

    

SATURDAY WATERCOLOUR LANDSCAPES AT BRAMCOTE, NOTTINGHAM

We had a very colourful day at the Saturday workshop ‘Oriental poppies’, the pictures below show my finished painting and two of the students with their completed paintings. The workshops are booking up fast so I have added a new date to the list, 16th March ‘Dramatic skies and sunsets”. The dates and subjects of the Saturday workshops are on the teaching page, also at the bottom of that page there are some new photos of the Painting breaks held in the summer.

    

WATERCOLOUR WORKSHOPS BRAMCOTE, NOTTINGHAM

We all enjoyed the first workshop of the new season painting Meconopsis blue poppies. Clementine (pictured here with me) had bought the French translation of my book, looked up my workshops on my website and made an impressive journey from Belgium to be with us on the day.

        

LATEST SKETCHES

Here I am enjoying the sunshine on holiday in beautiful Trogir in Croatia. I always take my sketchbook away with me preferring to do some quick pen and wash sketches rather than a detailed painting. I decided to frame one of my coloured sketches to hang on my wall to remind me of my lovely holiday.

         

WATERCOLOUR WORKSHOPS FOR ART SOCIETIES

I enjoy visiting and teaching watercolours to Art groups, here are some of the members of the Gainsborough art group with their paintings achieved at the workshop. The subject for this workshop was ‘Animals and wildlife in pen and wash’. I demonstrated the tiger painting in stages (finished painting shown below) for the group, some chose to paint the stages along with me and other painted different wildlife subjects with my guidance using the photos I supplied.

     

LEISURE PAINTER MAGAZINE ARTICLE JULY 2016

I have just written my sixth article for the Leisure Painter Magazine, Tulips at Hidcote Garden. In this four page article I demonstrate the stages of a detailed flower border using MaimeriBlu watercolours. Look out for it in the July issue.

   

PATCHING ART FESTIVAL 2016

I will be exhibiting my watercolour paintings at Patchings Art Festival, Calverton, Nottinghamshire, on the 9th-12th June in the Painting marquee. Please come along and say hello.

MAIMERIBLU WATERCOLOURS

I've been experimenting with the lovely bright MaimeriBlu Artist quality watercolours and here is a tulip flower that I’ve painted using sandal red, cobalt blue and cadmium yellow. Before painting the flower I made a colour chart of all my new paints so that I could see exactly what each colour looked like when it was diluted with water. These paints can be bought from the SAA art catalogue www.saa.co.uk.

   

LEISURE PAINTER MAGAZINE ARTICLE

My fourth article for the leisure painter magazine has just been published, summer flower border at Felley Priory. The article appears in the July issue which is on sale from the end of May. It was a nice surprise to see that my painting is featured on the front cover.

   

I HAVE WRITTEN A BOOK!

Published by Search Press, How To Paint Watercolour Landscapes was released in October 2010 in the UK.