November 2009

Julie and I are just back from a successful and fun packed workshop tour of Holland.

Teaching 45 students over four days in Almere, Zwolle and Oosterhout, we always receive a fantastic welcome from the Dutch people. The tour is organised by Saskia de Graaf with classes hosted by Richard Nijboer, Saskia de Wit and Anita Riorje. Their warmth and generosity makes our stay a real pleasure.

Holland is like our second home now, this is our third visit and it is wonderful to meet up with old friends and also to make new many new ones. Our workshops are based around fast face painting, but supported by good techniques with brush and sponge. We concentrate on teaching good brushstrokes with many exercises for the students to practice followed by demonstrations of many face paint designs suitable for the working face painter.

This year, we were proud to be working with our new range of face and body painting brushes, Illusion by Charles Fox – The Brush Collection. This is a new range of brushes that we have bought together to make a collection for every face and body artist. You can see all the details on our on line shop.

Thank you to every one who came to our class, it was such a pleasure to meet you all and we look forward to coming back again next year.