Hi Elizabeth, I haven’t replied have I?! Just trying to catch up with emails and messages and came across yours. I will add your name to the emailing list for workshops if that’s ok. The butterfly print method best described here https://watercolourdiary.com/2015/07/17/butterfly-2/. Best wishes Kate
Hi Elizabeth apologies for very long delay! I have added you to my mailing list and you’ll receive updates on all workshops, including iPad, hope this is ok?! Many thanks for lively comments also. Best wishes Kate
Hi Tina I have embarked on YouTube recently and hope to have something up there in the next few months!
Alyssa Nov 11, 2015
I love all your work but the bumble bees are exceptionally magnificent!
Karolina Apr 14, 2015
Hi Kate,
I just found your fantastic pictures on Pintrest and I just love them. Specially the once with bees and flowers. I just not love the colours and the motive but I also just love the fact that you picture bees. My selftaken familyname is Humleving that in Swedish means “Bumble-bee-wing”.
I hope that you still have some pictures with the summerflowers and bees. I really would like to buy one from you. Do you have a speciall gallery where I can have a look? Are you able to ship to Sweden?
Best regards
Karolina
Kay Mar 6, 2015
It was lovely to meet you earlier today and having now seen what you do, I am astonished by your paintings! They are so utterly delicate and alive! You seem to be able to capture the fleeting nature of observing these creatures whilst retaining all the essential elements of their presence! Wonderful work!
tina Jan 4, 2015
hi kate, i stumbled across your work a little while ago, i find your work very inspiring especially the bees…. i cant figure out how manage to get the light tones so light, i find that if i dilute the paints, it just becomes wishy washy, (i use watercolor inks) have you ever considered doing a you tube tutorial, for those who find it impossible to get to your workshops?
Elizabeth Clifford Jan 2, 2015
I just love your watercolours so much, and am interested to understand a little how you use tissue paper to make such delicate images. I saw your display at The English Wine Centre, but, stupidly, didn’t come and talk to you. I am interested in your iPad workshops, would you like to tell me when the next one is please?
Many thanks Donna! Hope to see you at a workshop. Will put you on the mailing list and keep you posted. best wishes Kate
Jenny Jun 15, 2014
It was lovely to meet you this afternoon and chat briefly about your work. I’m definitely going to follow your blog and have a go myself! We’ll search you out at the open houses next year too. Have a great summer. Best wishes
Jenny
Donna Chamberlain Jun 14, 2014
Dear Kate
I’ve just discovered your site and paintings and love them. Delicate and full of life.
I live in Hertfordshire with many friends in Brighton so hopefully I can make one of your teaching days soon
regards
Donna Chamberlain
Hi Helene, don’t know if I ever responded to your lovely comments, but was delighted to receive them! Best wishes Kate
Gianna Feb 3, 2013
Hello Kate, I was walking around the exhibition at the science museum and your pictures just stood out for me. Your insects - bees in particular - are amazing ( I am a beekeeper and know how hard it is to have them look so alive and light), but I am trying to be less heavy in my own nature watercolours, and I love your flowers and grass, so free and yet it feels as precise as being there! Thanks a lot, very inspiring! Please do let me know when you are exhibiting, and If you ever teach…
Gianna Feb 3, 2013
Hello Kate, I was walking around the exhibition at the science museum and your pictures just stood out for me. Your insects - bees in particular - are amazing ( I am a beekeeper and know how hard it is to have them look so alive and light), but I am trying to be less heavy in my own nature watercolours, and I love your flowers and grass, so free and yet it feels as precise as being there! Thanks a lot, very inspiring! Please do let me know when you are exhibiting, and If you ever teach…
Helene B Oct 6, 2012
Dear Kate,
I just discover your work today and I find it absolutely fantastic. All your paints are beautiful but this work on insects is so unique, so delicate and subtile. Congratulations. I wish I could see the real paint. All the best,
Dear Shirley May
thanks for nice comments! I wet the paper and put a piece of tissue paper on top and paint the image onto that, then let it get dryish and peel it off, then work back into it, sometimes blocking in the background with white if the initial stages bleed too much. Its a form of printing and use it because the butterfly in that position is very two dimensional looking and I felt needed another approach, its also a way of introducing some of the exciting texture without slavishly copying it! Do you have a website?
Dear Kate,
I was just given a beautiful Almanac card with 6 butterflies (as above on your site), and as a painter and printmaker of butterflies myself, I just wondered if you would explain your method. It looks like a very interesting mixture of watercolour and printmaking techniques. They are very beautiful. I found in my work on butterflies the mixture of symetry/asymetry a very important aspect of the image, and I love your work. Best wishes, Shirley May.
Your work is astonishing. The bees are my particular favorites. Wow!
How gorgeous! Your paintings are an inspiration.
No, they’re still up my sleeve! Are you an entomologist?
Thanks Lee, for a lovely comment!
really good work. manage to be technical and painterly.
on a ‘pedantic’ note though, I can’t see any bugs. ;)
really good work. manage to be technical and painterly.
on a ‘pedantic’ note though, I can’t see any bugs. ;)
Hi Elizabeth, I haven’t replied have I?! Just trying to catch up with emails and messages and came across yours. I will add your name to the emailing list for workshops if that’s ok. The butterfly print method best described here https://watercolourdiary.com/2015/07/17/butterfly-2/. Best wishes Kate
Hi Elizabeth apologies for very long delay! I have added you to my mailing list and you’ll receive updates on all workshops, including iPad, hope this is ok?! Many thanks for lively comments also. Best wishes Kate
Hi Tina I have embarked on YouTube recently and hope to have something up there in the next few months!
I love all your work but the bumble bees are exceptionally magnificent!
Hi Kate,
I just found your fantastic pictures on Pintrest and I just love them. Specially the once with bees and flowers. I just not love the colours and the motive but I also just love the fact that you picture bees. My selftaken familyname is Humleving that in Swedish means “Bumble-bee-wing”.
I hope that you still have some pictures with the summerflowers and bees. I really would like to buy one from you. Do you have a speciall gallery where I can have a look? Are you able to ship to Sweden?
Best regards
Karolina
It was lovely to meet you earlier today and having now seen what you do, I am astonished by your paintings! They are so utterly delicate and alive! You seem to be able to capture the fleeting nature of observing these creatures whilst retaining all the essential elements of their presence! Wonderful work!
hi kate, i stumbled across your work a little while ago, i find your work very inspiring especially the bees…. i cant figure out how manage to get the light tones so light, i find that if i dilute the paints, it just becomes wishy washy, (i use watercolor inks) have you ever considered doing a you tube tutorial, for those who find it impossible to get to your workshops?
I just love your watercolours so much, and am interested to understand a little how you use tissue paper to make such delicate images. I saw your display at The English Wine Centre, but, stupidly, didn’t come and talk to you. I am interested in your iPad workshops, would you like to tell me when the next one is please?
Thanks Jenny, I must post more to the blog! best wishes Kate
Many thanks Donna! Hope to see you at a workshop. Will put you on the mailing list and keep you posted. best wishes Kate
It was lovely to meet you this afternoon and chat briefly about your work. I’m definitely going to follow your blog and have a go myself! We’ll search you out at the open houses next year too. Have a great summer. Best wishes
Jenny
Dear Kate
I’ve just discovered your site and paintings and love them. Delicate and full of life.
I live in Hertfordshire with many friends in Brighton so hopefully I can make one of your teaching days soon
regards
Donna Chamberlain
Hi Helene, don’t know if I ever responded to your lovely comments, but was delighted to receive them! Best wishes Kate
Hello Kate, I was walking around the exhibition at the science museum and your pictures just stood out for me. Your insects - bees in particular - are amazing ( I am a beekeeper and know how hard it is to have them look so alive and light), but I am trying to be less heavy in my own nature watercolours, and I love your flowers and grass, so free and yet it feels as precise as being there! Thanks a lot, very inspiring! Please do let me know when you are exhibiting, and If you ever teach…
Hello Kate, I was walking around the exhibition at the science museum and your pictures just stood out for me. Your insects - bees in particular - are amazing ( I am a beekeeper and know how hard it is to have them look so alive and light), but I am trying to be less heavy in my own nature watercolours, and I love your flowers and grass, so free and yet it feels as precise as being there! Thanks a lot, very inspiring! Please do let me know when you are exhibiting, and If you ever teach…
Dear Kate,
I just discover your work today and I find it absolutely fantastic. All your paints are beautiful but this work on insects is so unique, so delicate and subtile. Congratulations. I wish I could see the real paint. All the best,
Helene
Dear Shirley May
thanks for nice comments! I wet the paper and put a piece of tissue paper on top and paint the image onto that, then let it get dryish and peel it off, then work back into it, sometimes blocking in the background with white if the initial stages bleed too much. Its a form of printing and use it because the butterfly in that position is very two dimensional looking and I felt needed another approach, its also a way of introducing some of the exciting texture without slavishly copying it! Do you have a website?
Dear Kate,
I was just given a beautiful Almanac card with 6 butterflies (as above on your site), and as a painter and printmaker of butterflies myself, I just wondered if you would explain your method. It looks like a very interesting mixture of watercolour and printmaking techniques. They are very beautiful. I found in my work on butterflies the mixture of symetry/asymetry a very important aspect of the image, and I love your work. Best wishes, Shirley May.