Fame for a month – Facebook group report October 2022
Are you enjoying our monthly Facebook competition? We have a very loyal group of Members and Friends who regularly contribute posts of their wonderful paintings to the dedicated SEAW Members and Friends Facebook group, following the theme set for the month. And it is always…
Exhibition news from Mel Collins
The Old Goods Shed, Clare Castle Country Park, 7th– 22nd May 2022 A BIG thank you to our SEAW Friends who visited and stewarded our recent exhibition at Clare. Your support for our exhibitions is always much appreciated and we are delighted that some of…
TUTORIAL – Winter Landscape by Caroline Furlong
Painting snow can be a challenging subject in watercolour. We must use the white of the paper to represent it. We have to remember that snow is not just white. Basically, snow is water, and when we look at water it is transparent, and so…
TUTORIAL – Sue Downie on Composition
One piece of advice I have found very useful is to plan the tonal structure of the painting before you start to paint. So think about what you are about to paint, squint at it and make a three value notan. The concept and word…