What to expect?

Each day we'll have two three hour workshops together, with a gap for lunch and plenty of tea, coffee and snacks to keep us all going. There will be 'exercises' that I set, but we'll also ensure there is time to tackle issues and challenges that you want to tackle.

In this course I'll bring some mixed media, and encourage you to do the same.

Day 1 - Breaking down our techniques, in the morning we'll look at ink sketching, from simple lines, to soluble inks, followed by an afternoon exploring our watercolours, and how we can enhance them with alternative media.

Day 2 - Finding our scenes, in the morning we'll (weather permitting), head outside to explore what makes a good scene. Failing that, we'll head outside to take some photos to work from back in the warmth of our venue. We'll explore scene selection, building a focus, and working out challenges in our scenes.

Day 3 - In the morning we'll focus on working at pace, and 'inside-outside' sketching, that enables us to create masterpieces from sketches. In the afternoon we'll have individualised learning, on day one I'll ask you to start thinking about what specific challenges you have, and we'll tackle these together as a group.

Day 4 - Project day, bringing it all together. This is your chance to work on a scene of your choosing, from memory, from photos, or from the surrounding Cotswolds en plein air. We'll put into practice all the ideas from the past three days and create a project in the morning, and another in the afternoon building on ideas and trials from our experiences together.