Yes, there’s still time to join our next Watermill online session you will spend two or three hours of pleasant painting in your own home this Thursday, learning from the watercolour master Edward Wesson in Mike Willdridge’s company. Edward Wesson‘s watercolours are known for their simplicity, boldness and great brushwork and he is the master painter who will be inspiring you in Mike’s next Continue Reading
Our rotund stone man gathers moss
I have always been rather fond of our Fat Man. Even though we leave him outside in all sorts of weather, and often don't even bother to pass the time of day with him, he never complains and he’s always his jovial, laid-back self. He is stone-hearted, of course, and stone everything else: he’s a small statue we bought many years ago from a friend in Scotland, a recumbent figure cheerfully Continue Reading
The stages of making a masterpiece: learn how it’s done painting along with Mike
English artist Edward Wesson‘s watercolours are known for their simplicity, boldness and great brushwork -- and he is the master painter who will be inspiring you in Mike Willdridge’s next interactive, online session with the Watermill, this Thursday. As you paint along with Mike, he will show you, in several stages, how great paintings like Wesson’s can be achieved. Mike says: “Wesson Continue Reading
A great start to our Watermill interactive, online painting sessions. Come and join in for more inspiration and fun
Wow! Some 120 people signed up for the first of our interactive, online painting sessions last Thursday, in which Randy Hale showed us how to put ‘pop’ into our paintings, converting a mundane photograph into an arresting picture. The painting above is the one that Randy made during the session. As part of the service, those who join our sessions also get the opportunity to put their Continue Reading
Simplicity, boldness, great brushwork… Learn from the watercolour master Edward Wesson, painting along online with Mike
The paintings of the great English watercolourist Edward Wesson (1910-1983) are known for their simplicity, boldness and great brushwork. He is the master painter who will be inspiring you in Mike Willdridge’s next interactive, online session. The painting above and the two others here of the same scene painted by Wesson. Mike says: “Wesson returned, not only to the same subject time Continue Reading
Today is Epiphany, a special day in the hearts of Italians – and their children
Today is Epiphany, the day when the Three Kings, after their long journey, discovered the Christ Child, paid homage and gave Him gifts. In Italy it is the day when children receive their Christmas presents (or, traditionally, bad ones receive a lump of coal.) They were delivered last night and are being opened today. The purveyor of these gifts is a witch, a hag called Befana, who, despite her Continue Reading
‘Ready to go’ on our first inspiring online, interactive session of the year
You still have time to join the first of this year’s Watermill at Posara unique online, interactive painting sessions this Thursday, in which the American watercolourist and Watermill tutor Randy Hale will show you how to produce vibrant paintings from commonplace photographs. To join up, please just click here. Randy has just sent us the montage above, showing the original Continue Reading
Happy New Year again: The Watermill’s January 2022 newsletter is just out
As well as our very best wishes for a calm, contented and creative New Year, and details about our new series of online, interactive painting sessions, this month’s Watermill newsletter also has stories on Why The Economist made Italy Country of the Year in 2021 Paul Talbot-Greaves is inspired by... cows! Why does painting tutor Pamme Turner always travel with a Continue Reading
Evocative pictures from Watermill painting tutor Varvara Neiman. Come and paint with her and create your own
Today I thought I would share with you a few of the wonderful paintings made by our tutor Varvara Neiman, who will be with us again this year for another of her inspiring painting courses. We would love you to join us. The painting above, oil on canvas, is called Passion Fruits. Varvara says: “I was stopped by the beauty of this narrative subject of passion fruit overgrowing an old, flimsy Continue Reading
Our first inspiring online, interactive session of the year will help you to put some ‘zing’ into your paintings
In the first of this year’s Watermill at Posara unique online, interactive painting sessions, the American watercolourist and Watermill tutor Randy Hale will show you how to produce vibrant paintings from commonplace photographs. Randy says: “Cameras are mechanical and capture every detail. Our job as artists our is to simplify, to make a ‘busy’ photo a much more interesting painting. Continue Reading