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An unexpected pleasure to find such wonderful art and friends in Stratford upon Avon. Claire with Wendy from Avon Arts & Jewels, 50 Henley Street. Thanks for tea, Wendy

For everyone who joined us in 2019, in the University of Leicester Botanic Gardens, for an LTCBP workshop painting rodents, in preparation for the 2020 Year of the Rat, we trust that you like the finished painting:

Well done to everyone who took part and painted a mouse, rat or squirrel (tree rat). They look an interesting bunch and it’s just a question of who has their eye on whom…

Thank you.

Paul

And the day begins…

We are really looking forward to our next workshop at Sywell on Saturday 14 September which will be looking at classical Blue Green Landscape – one of my favourite subjects.

See you there

Paul

Having a great time with rats in the botanic gardens. Here’s Claire demonstrating a big friendly rat…

For more info on Rat personality traits take a look on Travel China

You may wish to include the Calligraphy for Rat (shǔ) in your painting. This can be found on our Zodiac Animals Calligraphy page.

On Sunday 18 August we were privileged to be invited to work with the Oxford group once again.

This time we looked at Fish and the Carp.

Wonderful work was produced and I was so pleased.

It’s always good when a workshop flows swimmingly due to great people!

Thank you for making us welcome once again,

Paul

Knuston Autumn CBP Course October 23rd – 27th 2019

Just planning this next course for October. Entitled Autumn Water it will include Autumnal topics, autumn landscapes, pigs and fruit and flowers.

Double Happiness Studio MH hits the fabulous Brynne Vineyard again!

July 15th Paint among the vines and enjoy the produce!!

It was five days of fun, laughter and a lot of roosters, among other things. The walls of the Practical Room were soon filling with lots of examples of Chinese Brush paintings. People were soon vying to get their ‘gallery’ higher than anyone else! The room has recently been refurbished to provide a light, bright, airy environment in which to produce works of art. The ‘newbies’ soon felt at home and were joining in the banter and producing good paintings of their own. Altogether a very successful course. Thank you, Pauline!

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Knuston Summer School 2017 – Pauline’s last stand!

Paul and I are off to John Sprakes private view at the Mall Galleries this evening preceded by the Hockney Exhibition at Tate Britain! What an exciting day!! And the sun is shining.

We were very lucky to meet John and Barbara Sprakes when we walked Hadrian’s Wall in September 2015. Barbara has very kindly kept us in touch ever since. We love John’s work. Very varied. His retrospective in 2016 in Doncaster was fantastic.

Narcissus is an iconic subject for Chinese Brush Painting. Chinese varieties are smaller and have multiple flowers per stem. There are also quite rigid guidelines for painting them. They are often called ‘water fairies’ as they are grown hydroponically. See the example of a typical CBP bowl of narcissi in the gallery section.