SCUBA DIVING STUDENT MORE AFRAID OF PAINTING THAN SHARKS!

A wonderful time was had by all at the Sunshine Coast Blooms painting workshop. It would be a mistake to call this a painting holiday because we do work in a very focused way for 4.5 days to achieve these incredible results of two beautiful blooms paintings and learning how to build a painting from scratch, how to handle the paint, and putting all of the learning into practice on each painting. On top of that each painting has a particular challenge and learning to it plus each student brings their own unique touch to the work that makes each piece unique.

Here’s the group showing off their beautiful paintings!

So I must congratulate everybody who attended. Fabulous work all around. As per last year, I ran a Blooms painting workshop on the Sunshine Coast in the gorgeous town of Yandina in the Sunshine Hinterland. It was held at the charming and historic Yandina Arts School Hall. 

This year I even had a student fly in from Maui in Hawaii. Sue is usually in her element underwater as an experienced professional scuba diver taking tours. She told me she was more afraid of painting than she was of sharks. The idea of painting and getting started produced palpitations, however she seemed to break the ice at the workshop and got over her desire to run as fast as she could on land.

Sue produced two gorgeous paintings. Congratulations to Sue. Sue is also coming to join me in Melbourne for the workshop starting on Thursday night as well! If anybody else wants to join us please do! I still have a few places left. Here’s a link below.

Amongst our students were two sisters, Julie and Karen, who not only caught up with each other but shared the journey together at Blooms on the Sunshine Coast. They both produced extraordinary artwork. Karen had never painted before. See her work with the cream roses below.

Julie had dabbled with watercolour recently however no experience whatsoever with acrylics and look what she produced!

Congratulations to you both and thank you very much for the beautiful bouquet of tropical flowers for the teacher!

We also had a pair of friends who very much enjoyed a reunion as well, comparing paintings in their painting journey along the way. Meg produced these outstanding paintings below learning the Blooms 1 painting method and the Blooms 2 painting method.

Meg was able to create this magnolias painting in one day after learning from her first Blooms painting, the Parc Monceau Rose,  how to put a painting together

One of my very early paintings from 35 years ago surfaces!

Kathleen had encountered my paintings approximately 35 years ago when I was starting out as a painter. You’ll love this story! 

When I first started painting I was invited to put a painting into an art auction in Sydney and she and her husband bought the painting. This must have been about painting number five for me in my painting journey. I had been terrified at putting my painting in front of a live auction charity event!

I started the painting on Saturday afternoon with a glass or two of wine and finished by the evening, slightly pissed!  It was my way of having courage to paint and confront my fears! The painting still hangs with pride in their home and they absolutely love it. Actually it’s not too bad now I look at it much further down the track! I rather like it! So grateful they bought it!

But more about Kathleen! Kathleen had done some painting at home but was looking to upgrade her painting skills. By the end of the workshop she was applying a lot more paint and producing a lot more colour, and painting in flow and getting some outstanding results as you can see from these gorgeous violet blue hydrangeas and the lemon rose. Congrats to Kathleen!

Bronwyn is in the midst of creating what she calls a “shouse“. A cross between a shed and a house, in Bundaberg on a beautiful plot of land. She found time to join us and create a beautiful rose and a midnight tulip. Great job! She’ll have some beautiful artwork for the shouse!

Trish has painted with me from the early days off and on and even was one of my early students to do my MMFA Program. She has assisted me in France at French Art School, she sells some of her art and has won art prizes,  and we are great friends.

She decided to book in and upgrade her skills and increase productivity. My task was to get her out of slow mode and getting bogged in detail. I’m happy to say Trish passed with flying colours, and what beautiful colour she used to create these two beautiful paintings including the lotus and the gum nuts! Trish is coming to Melbourne to assist so the fun entourage continues!

I still have a few places left for the Melbourne blooms workshop and also I’m open to creating a second New Zealand workshop and have posted new dates. Here is the link to the general workshop page. I will be back on the Sunshine Coast with similar timing for next year and those dates will go up shortly.

NEWLY OPENED EXTRA 

HAMILTON BLOOMS PAINTING WORKSHOP DATES

Oct 18 - 21, 2022 daily 9-5:30pm
plus evening October 17 from 3-8pm

It’s a surefire way to get over your painting bugbears to book yourself in and enter an art immersion for 4 1/2 days and emerge with two beautiful paintings and loads of painting confidence. No previous experience necessary.

I hope to see you in class!

A better look at Trish's painting of a lotus.

Below; When in a  dance hall....the Blooms Sunshine Coast Painting Workshop group at the end of our painting journey!

Below; Julie's stunning striped peony, her first painting in acrylics and first major effort! The Blooms Painting Method is a system of painting anyone can learn. NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE NECESSARY

Below;First time painter Karen created this lovely cream garden rose

What did Kathleen have to say about her Blooms Workshop experience with me?

What did first time painter Karen have to say about her Blooms Painting Workshop experience?

I hope you have enjoyed some impressions from our Blooms Painting Workshop on the Sunshine Coast. 

Thanks to all the wonderful participants; Bronwyn, Julie, Meg, Karen, Elizabeth, Trish, Kathleen and Sue! And we were also joined by Loren Boyd as a guest of MMFA painting a fabulous cream rose with gorgeous champagne colours.

The new dates for the next Sunshine Coast Blooms Painting Workshop are up. As are dates for Melbourne starting this Thursday if you'd like to join us, and workshops in New Zealand, the Barossa and Sydney in December!

Love and paint brushes,

Jacqueline Coates

Any questions please email [email protected]