If you want to paint a picture from a holiday photo, then this course is for you.

UPDATED 2022. If you are lucky enough to go on holiday this year, take this course first then you'll take better photos with your painting in mind.

So often we look at a view and think 'I'd love to paint that, but when we look closely we see all sorts of problems. ' The things we like are in the wrong place, or there's too many trees or buildings to make sense of and you give up before you start.

This course is going to be a real help to anyone painting who has faced this problem. Let me take the anxiety away byt giving you some good planning advice.

This course will help you with your problem solving process when it comes to planning and painting a picture.

• Here I will show you how to break it down into manageable chunks.

• Use your artist's licence to move and add details.

• How to solve large expanses of 'green'.

• Make sense of masses of buildings.

• Alter perspective so the end result so it makes sense.

• Create great tree foliage effects with salt.

This is a great course which will help you in so many ways, whatever you chose to paint. So take it slowly and follow the process, then when you have painted this scene you will be able to tackle your own special painting.

Enjoy your painting, love Nicola