Improve your painting confidence by painting these poppies and learn how:

• to use more water and let the paints flow.

• use stronger colours and more pigment.

• make meaningful marks with your brushes.

• create specific shapes from the accidental marks that occur.

There is so much fun to have painting these pictures. Your painting confidence with really soar when you grasp the basics of NOT colouring between the lines. There is no need to use a pencil first. Let the paint and the water make the marks for you. Use your imagination and let the images create themselves.

I have used a mixture of colours. Scarlet lake, Alizarin and vermillion for the main reds. But use what reds and oranges you have. Maybe you have poppies growing near you which have more orange and yellow in them, so I will leave it up to you.

Most of all discover the magic of watercolours when the are used in this really fluid way.

Follow me as I demonstratehow to work in stages and also how to correct mistakes. It happens to the best of us !

• Why choose one of my courses?

  Because, as a self-taught artist I understand how a lot of people feel about their creative work, sometimes anxious, sometimes overwhelmed and often that it's not 'good enough. I will hold your hand as you overcome these fears as I offer a friendly, relaxed and sensitive teaching style.

  I also have years of experience teaching people of all levels both in-person and via the internet.

  Do one of my courses and you will feel as if I am in the room with you every step of the way.

Keep safe and keep painting, love Nicola