Inspired by David Hockney’s swimming pool paintings and by folks recent holiday adventures tonight we looked at how to draw water in pools or still water with reflection… rather beautiful wet on wet washes, white pastel lines as a resist and some gorgeous colour mixes. Thanks đ everyone for another great evening (even in the heat!!) 
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National Saturday art club
Visit to Somerset House to see the summer exhibition of young Uk artists 14-18years who meet every Saturday to create amazing art, design, engineering and writing. Here is some of their work and just to say how heartening it is to see this future generation of creatives engaging at such a high level with some top practitioners in a diverse range of studios from technology to architecture. 
British watercolourists at the British MuseumÂ
Exploring landscape with adult evening class at Hills Road College, Cambridge
Thank you to everyone for your paintings, a pleasure as always. Experimenting with colour mixes, reduced palette, texture and washes.
Feathers and birds watercolour painting at Hills rd adult ed class
This evening everyone experimented with dry brush, scratching, washes and background washes. Thanks everyone!
Chinese calligraphy
I ve been practicing with s new calligraphy brush pen… here are a few …
Chinese calligraphy studio at the Victoria and Albert museum LondonÂ
So we practiced with our Chinese brushes and on my trip to the V & A today I saw this lovely scribes desk and the beautiful brushes, stands and brush and ink pots…
