Yes, as Lois says in the video above, you will be glad of the warmth of your own home for Randy Hale‘s next interactive, online session with the Watermill, which features a roaring March wind and swirling snow that chills you to the bone. Here’s Randy’s practice painting: Painting along in comfort, you will be […]
Fun with rock salt, masking fluid, gesso, gum arabic and even washing-up liquid, to make your watercolours zing
Some 250 people signed up for Thursday’s online Zoom teach-in with Sue Ford on the use of water-resistant techniques to enhance your paintings. And what fun the participants had, adding ingredients such as rock salt, masking fluid, gesso, gum arabic , and even washing-up liquid (dishwashing soap) to their watercolours to create vibrant effects. One […]
A change of scene for the next Watermill online paintalong: from Randy’s rumbustious rodeo to Mike’s gentle Mediterranean beach scene
What fun we had yesterday, catching excitement of a cowboy riding a bucking bronco in Randy Hale’s latest interactive online session with the Watermill. It was another compelling session for our ‘virtual’ international painting community, with people from all over the world getting together for two or three hours of convivial creativity. As usual, participants […]
Welcome to Dottoressa Lois in the new Watermill newsletter
The Watermill’s packed February Newsletter celebrates the great event of last month for the Breckon family: Lois’ graduation as a Doctor of Philosophy (music) at the University of London. It gives you the lowdown on why Bill spouts portentous poetry out loud most mornings. It also keeps you up to date on all our Watermill […]
You’ll find paintings of more than 250 children in Pieter Bruegel’s astonishing picture – but you won’t find Wally (or Waldo)!
Do you remember Where’s Wally?, the illustrated puzzle books for children, by Martin Handford, where you had to pick out, in a double-page drawing featuring dozens of people, a boy in red-and-white striped pullover, bobble hat and glasses, the eponymous Wally. (I think the series was called Where’s Waldo in the United States and Canada.) […]
Randy keeps returning to this awesome scene, You, too, can paint this vertiginous clifftop along with him on his Watermill online session
Randy Hale’s subject for his first Watermill interactive online session this season is the awesome Otter Cliffs in the Acadia National Park in Maine in the USA. He will show you how to move travel sketch to finished painting. The date is 7 December 2023. (Details and a link below.) Randy is so enthusiastic about […]
High art and high fashion, a compelling combination
Have you wondered what the pictures would look like if the ‘bible’ of high fashion, Vogue magazine, asked famous painters to design its front cover? Wonder no more: over the years the editors of  Vogue have done just that., and my favourite online art magazine, Dailyart, has just published an article showing the striking results. […]
Welcome to a ‘sunny watercolourist’ on the Watermill painting tutors team
A warm Watermill welcome to Michael Solovyev, one of our new painting tutors NEXT year. He’s called his week ‘‘Atmospheric Landscape in Watercolour: Studio/Plein Air’ and we are looking forward immensely to seeing how the Tuscan light and the beautiful scenery surrounding the mill influence his painting. Michael will be with us from Saturday 22 […]
Still time to join these two Vietnamese lady bicyclists, painting online along with Mike
Yes, there’s still time (just) to paint along with Mike Willdridge in our latest online interactive session and join these two Vietnamese ladies as they push their bikes through a busy market. Your task this Thursday will be to capture their personality in your painting and to simplify the crowded scene –and give a feeling […]
Meet Lucy, the first goat to star in a Watermill newsletter!
This is Lucy the goat, with her friend Gina Shearston on the front page of the Watermill’s February online newsletter. What’s she doing there? Click here to find out. There are also stories on Our Ocean Bottles arrive to help our fight against pollution of the seas Why Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi needs no introduction! […]