Decorating

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 […]

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 […]

Heron in flight

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 […]

art lessons for everyone

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 […]

Choose a work of art that can be framed easily and within your means

Professional framing can start at 100’s of dollars but quickly become more expensive as you customize your frame with decorative mat. When searching for a frame, I look at the […]

3 Measurements- Hanging art

It seems easy enough. Grab a hook and a hammer and get to work. But there’s definitely a bit of a science to hanging artwork properly. With these three key […]