Lois and I have just had a very chilly week in London, and it wasn’t much warmer on our return to Florence yesterday. So, what could be nicer this week than painting warm Italian sunshine – and in the comfort of your own home! That’s just what you will be doing on Mike Willdridge’s latest […]
Make your watercolours better by keeping some water out! Carl will show you how
As Lois says in the video above, water-resistant techniques can help to make your watercolours even better, and our painting tutor Carl March will show you how it’s done, in our FREE online session on 8 February. For more details and to register, just click here. Join us to banish water and add a new […]
How we are making the Watermill Cooler and Greener. Part Two: Electricity
I reckon that you could boil 25,000 teapotsful* (litres) of water in an electric kettle on the amount of electricity we’ve produced from the sun at the Watermill. I hope I’ve got the figures right, and you may think I ought to have better things to do with my time, but I was just trying […]
How we made the Watermill Cooler and Greener in 2023 (Part One: Water)
We have just received the lovely ‘thank you’ video above from the charity Ocean Bottle, with whom we work to try to reduce the amount of plastic pollution in our oceans. (I must say, our contribution seems piffling when compared with the size of the problem, but as they say, every little helps.) We have […]
Brighten your winter day painting the Italian sunlight online along with Mike
Click on the video above to hear Lois telling you about Mike Willdridge’s latest interactive online painting session with the Watermill. As Lois says, what could be nicer than painting Italian sunshine? — And that’s just what you’ll be doing along with Mike on Thursday 25 January. Details and a link below. Mike says: “This […]
That’s what we call an interesting backyard! More than 100 people painted it along online with Pamme yesterday
Yes, more than 100 people joined Watermill painting tutor Pamme Turner yesterday to learn how to capture the beauty of their own backyards. (As we said in a previous blog, Americans and British people have a different interpretation of the word: in Britain, a backyard is generally a small space with no garden, but in […]
Paint along online with Mike at an Italian seaside town in the latest Watermill interactive Zoom session
Here’s a scene to warm the cockles of your heart on a cold winter’s day, in Mike Willdridge’s next interactive online painting session with the Watermill. Capture the warmth of an Italian summer’s day, painting along in your own home with Mike. The Watermill lies in the province of Massa-Carrara, in the Italian region of […]
Artists line up to paint their own backyards with Pamme
More than 200 people have already signed up for our painting professor Pamme Turner’s FREE online Zoom session this Thursday (11 January), to learn how to capture the beauty of their own backyards*. There is s till time for you to join them, which you can do by clicking here. Pamme, a regular Watermill painting […]
Enthusiastic Watermill online painters make their subject shine on a rainy day (and there are bikes, bareback riders and backyards to come!)
More than 70 people registered for Randy Hale’s online interactive painting session with the Watermill last week. The subject was a rainy day in the ancient city of Rouen in France, with the pavements shining wetly and the great mass of the cathedral louring in the. background. More than 50 enthusiastic painters turned up for the […]
Looking back and looking forward, in the Watermill’s January newsletter
January, as symbolised by the two-headed Roman god Janus, is a time for looking back and looking forwards; of memories of the last year and plans for the next. And that is just what the Watermill newsletter is doing this month. Our memories include a saxophone Flashmob, rides on vintage Vespas, as our gardener Flavio […]