FRIDAY 21st March

Arrive 10.0am Refreshments in the upstairs gallery. Meet your fellow artists. Introduction to JoeDaisy Studio and your Professional Artist.

10.30am Paints, brushes and equipment. KNOW YOUR EQUIPMENT. A complete overview, explanation and comparison of products. Every artist has their own space with professional easel, painting table and hi stool. Some special tips on how to prepare your canvas for painting. Use of pigments & mediums. Which sort of brush for each medium etc.There is a complete selection of brushes, palette knives, paints, pastels, canvases, pigments, mediums, paper etc in the studio.

11.0am Painting with passion and the power of one brush and a limited palette. An essential warming up and ‘exploring’ exercise where you discover your own abilities/ instincts/leanings. You are taught how to create a focal point and how to balance your colour (with reference to the Colour Wheel) in this initial exercise. You also learn how nature can teach you composition and how 'nature' can be your starting point to create 'simplified' or 'abstract' paintings

We paint with one brush (Illustrating the power of a good brush) with explanation of how to use your brush etc. Everyone has the same colour palette and it is very interesting to see how each student creates a completely different painting.

We use the wet on wet method and paint with passion, spontaneously, quickly and with confidence of colour. This is an initial exercise to explore your instinctive creative abilities.

It’s good to look back on this first painting at the end of the weekend - to see how you’ve progressed.

12.0am Buffet Lunch in the Upstairs Gallery (Sometimes a barbecue in the summer) We cater for vegetarians and any special dietary requirements. During the day, there is a coffee machine, tea, herbal drinks, soft drinks, bottled water and wine available - along with nibbles and you are encouraged to make the Studio 'your home' for the weekend i.e take rests whenever you want to, walk around, look at the art books, look at the paintings and prints in the Gallery, sit and chat etc. We want you to feel as if you are at home but with the added bonus of every top quality Professional art material and facility you could desire!

1.30am On Location in Mapledurham - at the watermill, river thames and glorious landscape. Pastel drawings.

Day finishes 4.30pm

Pub Meal - Meet up at 7.30pm

SATURDAY 22nd March

Start 10.0am STILL LIFE DRAWING IN THE STUDIO We paint a still life in oils, acrylics or watercolour.

12.30am Buffet Lunch in the Upstairs Gallery We cater for vegetarians and any special dietary requirements. During the day, there is a coffee, tea, soft drinks, bottled water and wine available - along with nibbles and you are encouraged to make the Studio 'your home' for the weekend i.e take rests whenever you want to, walk around, look at the art books, look at the paintings and prints in the Gallery, sit and chat etc. We want you to feel as if you are at home but with the added bonus of every top quality Professional art material and facility you could desire!

1.30am Carry on Painting

Day finishes 4.0pm

Pub Meal - Meet up at 7.30pm

SUNDAY 23rd MARCH

START- 10.0am

GO ON LOCATION to Windsor or Henley and learn to create 'Interpretive Landscapes' We make a pastel drawing which we then create on canvas in the Studio.

12.30am Pub Lunch

1.30am Back to the Studio and put our 'working drawing' onto canvas to create our 'interpretive Landscape'

Day finishes 4.0pm

Pub Meal - Meet up at 7.30pm

if weather is inclement we will paint in the studio. Painting in your own space with all the Professional materials you require. Your own easel, painting table and Hi Stool. Guidance and asistance given at all times. Encouragement and tuition on the use of Mixed Media.

MONDAY - 24th March

- 10.0am Carry on Painting our Landscape or Paint something else you want to. We can learn ABSTRACTS

12.30am Buffet Lunch

1.30am Carry on painting

Day finishes 3.30pm