Getting Back in the Swing of Things
Sissy & Roché is back Up and once again offering Watercolour classes. My regular students are starting to trickle back in. Elaine Van Loo hung her pastel exhibit yesterday for […]
Original Art’s Not For Everyone.
Art patrons are as unique as the artists they collect. Many started their collections right out of college. Like collectors of antiquities, art buyers are always on the hunt for […]
Ed Roach Watercolour Class Experience
When I teach painting in watercolour, I shave off a little piece of me and share it to the world. When I first challenged myself to teach, I was very […]
How I Compose a Watercolour Painting
There are times when I feel like painting a particular scene but I don’t have any reference to work from. Resources on the web allow me a great deal of […]
Why I Love The Arts
Since I was a a young child anything art intrigued me. I loved that I could draw using my God given talent. I was the only one of my friends […]
Jumping Ship
I get a reasonable number of artists who are looking for acrylic or oil classes. Of course this isn’t what I offer here at Sissy & Roché. So I typically […]
You Don’t Always Have To Paint What You See
In the paintings shown above, you’ll notice how the picture on the left the water is painted in a traditional palette, (pea green.) The painting on the right uses […]
A Painting a Day Keeps the Doctor Away!
In an article I read not too long ago, it suggested that painting reduces psychological disorders such as stress, anxiety and depression. The article documented an elementary school teacher who […]