It was almost mutiny; I just had to get the Tuesday Art Team down to the sea (Argyll,  West Coast of Scotland, very wild and rural) before Christmas to paint the snow topped lime grass, blackcurrant hills and powder lilac sea…it was freezing, we managed an hour, but oh what colours you couldn’t ever imagine indoors; no thinking, only looking, be zesty!

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2 1/2 Art Days as a workshop for 8 women away from the city: (6 who had done lots, 2 who hadn’t at all). Tutored and run by Hannah on the west coast of Scotland. Hannah’s unique enthusiastic and energetic approach full of visual treats and experiences involves working in the village hall, a barn, by the sea, up hills and around the peninsula with various mediums passionately showing ways of looking. Hannah inspires and motivates everyone regardless of ability teaching vigorous bold and big drawing, pushing your colour palette in acrylics, committed oil pastel sketches, zesty bold colours in chalks, loose un-hairy mark making, no thinking or presuming that sea colour, considered composition, constantly daring you to loosen up, be bolder, play a bit…it’s an uplifting energy of yes you can!

(You have to be flexible; it inevitably rains when you want to be painting outside or the sun comes out when it’s time to go…)

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