Art: life drawing and portraiture courses, craft kits and handcrafted gifts

Classes are held in lovely venues - Norden Farm in Maidenhead on Tuesdays. Classes are fun and friendly, a place to learn and make new friends. There are 3 hour morning and afternoon classes to fit in with student’s schedules. You receive tuition and guidance from our excellent tutors allowing you to produce beautiful art using a variety of mediums over a 14 week period. We start with pencil drawing, setting the building blocks of skills for the course. We then work with charcoal, coloured inks, pastels both soft and...

We have now re-opened with 2-metre distancing and smaller groups. Cowshed Creative in the Lake District offers a wide range of workshops in a stunning setting near Kendal and Windermere. PORTRAITURE: A fantastic opportunity to explore portrait painting using watercolours. Work with Sky TV Portrait artist Catherine MacDiarmid and gain expert insight and advice. You will be guided through a variety of exercises covering colour and colour mixing, wet into wet, lifting out and expressive mark making, all with emphasis on gaining confidence painting watercolour portraits. Using photographs as source...

Create your own pet portrait using oil paints. Using a good reference photo we will take three days to produce a fantastic painting of yours or a loved ones pet. It can be a dog, cat, horse, ferret, budgie or even a bearded dragon! We start on day one with a tracing, then an underpainting in burnt umber. Then on day two we block in all the main colours having identified the three main colours we need, we mix them and block and blend them. we also add the eyes...