Catherine, Averil, Bridget, Michael, Lil and Eleanor. We had a great week and once again the weather really was very good and we were outside for four days out of five. Everyone did a great job, and completed two paintings of the views from the lawns of the Lake Hotel Killarney. For one of the group it was their first time painting and the discovery of a truely absorbing pasttime. Another of the group had come to oils for the first time having previously painted with water-colours. Its always a real pleasure to run the courses, share the excitment and see the satisfaction we all feel at the end of a week or weekend of painting.
I did have to skip the scones this week though...there's only so much cream and jam the waist-line will tolerate!! Pity!

July Plein Air at the Lake Hotel. We had a wonderful week, the weather was really good, even to the point of having to move into the shade!! The town was buzzing with the Killarney Summerfest and the Irish Open, so there was plenty going on.
In the picture are Valerie and Eddie. Valerie came over from England and was painting for the first time. Now back home, inspired to keep going, she has already started a local evening class. Eddie lives locally and this is the fifth course he has come to with me over the last three years.

Last weekend I held our first outdoor or 'Plein Air' painting course at the Lake Hotel.

Last weekend Tina Reed , Killarney Art Holidays, held our first outdoor or 'Plein Air' painting course at the Lake Hotel. The weather couldnt have been better, and we sat out on the hotel lawn surrounded by panoramic views of the lakes, mountains and National Park. There really couldnt be a better setting.
For the last 3 years I have been running step-by-step oil painting classes from my studio in Ross Road, but now having moved to the Clydagh Valley, I will be running courses in conjunction with the Lake Hotel, outdoors weather permitting, and inside with Lake Views as an alternative. Im excited about the new location, and Im able to give participants a discount on course cost for people who are staying at the Lake Hotel, and the Lake Hotel are also offering special accomodation rates for painters doing a course.
Classes are suitable for beginner and intermediate painters and at our course this weekend we had some who had painted before but also two ladies who were painting for the first time. The hardest part was deciding which lovely view to paint, and after a bit of deliberating, we set up on the lawns at the back of the hotel.
‘Plein Air’ or ‘Outdoor’ painting is different to a studio setting, there’s a wonderful sense of being part of what you’re painting, which is really something in a location as beautiful and tranquil as the Lake Hotel. Classes are the same format as before, with small groups and step-by-step instruction with Tina Reed. A full set of course notes is given out, describing the techniques used during the course with reminders and tips on colour mixing, composition and brush/ palette-knife methods.
Courses are running through the year, one weekend a month and one week a month. The next course is Monday May 24th, some places are still available for a 3-day or 5-day option.
Please call Tina on 085 7773538 or see www.killarneyartholidays.com for details.

New pictures for summer! Having great fun with sunflowers, and Im enjoying painting bluebells again now that spring is here. Tina

Dont forget to have a look at the new gallery page on my web site...hours of fun up-loading all those pictures...I was delighted with it in the end though! Tina

Hello Tina. I am so thrilled to now have my very own TinaReed! Thank you for painting and suggesting Ann gave it to me for my birthday. It is going on the wall in my kitchen where I seem to spend most of my time. The kitchen table is my office!! Ann says she was so amused when I said I would rather have a Reed than a Van Gogh.. love to all, Lesley

February 2010- Week course

Kieran and Eugene in the picture below, and on the left is Phil, who has been painting a good while.

Always great to have Phil painting with us!

February 2010- Week course

A great week painting with Eugene from England, and Kieran from Cork (who'd been given a Gift Voucher for the course) and Phil from Killarney.

A lovely comment from Eugene: 'Well done Tina. You made a silk purse out of someone with two left thumbs.'

During the week course we did a step by step painting of Ross Castle (with Swans!) using the palette knife, and a fast brush-stroke painting of a horse. This was Eugene and Kierans' first time painting in oils.