Creative Core Video Block

This product gives you access to our 4 Creative Core video tutorials to enjoy painting at home, in your own time.

Perfect if you miss a class or have a week when you’re unable to attend, these step‑by‑step tutorials allow you to stay up to date and continue painting when it suits you.

Simply take this product through checkout, enter your code, and don’t forget to click Apply before completing your purchase.

Once applied, your tutorials will be unlocked and ready to watch.

Please note: Access codes are for individual use only.
Do not share your code, and videos are for personal use only.

Week 1 — Calendula Glow 🌼

Our monthly Botanical Watercolour classes started this month, and I wanted to bring a little whisper of that into our weekly classes too.

We’ll be painting calendula from life, focusing on those gorgeous petal shapes and experimenting with a different shaped brush to help create them. Keep yours botanical or loosen things up and make it a little more abstract… putting your own style into your painting is very welcome.

Week 2 — Beyond the Wall 🌾

Inspired by one of my own reference photographs taken near Garlogie, this tutorial is all about capturing that beautiful golden field beyond the old stone wall.

We’ll explore texture and varying greens, rather than reaching for the same green throughout, as well as having plenty of practice with that big atmospheric sky. Lots of lovely wet-into-wet watercolour, allowing the paint and water to do some of the work for us.

Week 3 — Twilight Owls 🦉

For Halloween week, I wanted to embrace the season without going full-on Halloween… so our little owls are only slightly spooky and still very sweet!

This painting has a lovely storybook feel. We’ll create an old twisting tree, delicate bare branches and a soft atmospheric background before adding our little family of owls, each with their own expression and personality.

There’s lots of freedom to make them your own… sleepy, curious, wide-eyed or perhaps just a tiny bit eerie.

Week 4 — Pin & Paint 🧵

For our final tutorial of the block, we’ll finish with something completely different.

There’s something incredibly satisfying about painting the tiny glass-headed pins, little spools and sewing details. We’ll concentrate on really looking at our lights and darks to give those tiny objects shape and dimension, while exploring lots of different textures.

We’ll also be trying a new technique that we haven’t used in class before.

A really fun and playful painting to finish a wonderfully varied block… botanicals, landscape, storybook owls and something completely different to end.