Annie Sloan Chalk Paint · Chalk Paint · workshop ·Mar 18, 2026

Adding Botanical Detail with Chalk Paint – Highlights from Our March Workshop

Adding Botanical Detail with Chalk Paint – Highlights from

What a wonderful creative day we had at the Adding Botanical Detail with Chalk Paint workshop with Lily Faith! Held here at Source for the Goose, the shop was full of colour, laughter, and busy hands as everyone explored ways to bring a touch of nature into their painting.

A Day of Creative Inspiration

This hands-on day was all about painting botanical details , with an emphasis on the British countryside —using primroses as our theme and Annie Sloan Chalk Paint. Whether people arrived confident with a brush or complete beginners, everyone left with something beautiful and uniquely their own.

Some of the things we explored together:

How to plan out your design on a practice board
Techniques for layering colour and blending shades naturally
Tips for using fine brushes to add those small, detailed flourishes
Creative ideas hand-painting into future furniture projects

The finished pieces!

Participants at a Chalk Paint workshop at Source for the Goose with Lily Faith - artist

The planning and prep stages

Setting up for a Chalk Paint workshop at Source for the Goose, Devon

A selection of tins of Annie Sloan Chalk Paints at Source for the Goose, Devon

You could really see everyone's confidence growing throughout the afternoon. It was a joy to watch each person find their own style and voice through paint.

What People Created

By the end of the workshop, each participant had painted a practice board with their version of a primrose and its leaves. What is always amazing is how everyone's looked so different.

I was so inspired from the event, I even painted a small stool!

Close up of a painted stool using Annie Sloan Chalk Paint and a primrose design at Source for the Goose, Devon

A painted stool with a primrose design using Annie Sloan Chalk Paint beside a leather chair

The workshop had wonderful feedback:

'It was great having the opportunity to try a new creative technique under the guidance of Lily, where the steps were broken down.

Lily gave me the confidence to paint in detail and that each step was unique to the individual painting the piece, so did not have to be uniform or exactly as the set example.

This course definitely gave me ideas of how I could further use & develop the techniques learnt, something I may not have tried without Lily's guidance. '

Join the Next Workshop

If you couldn't join us this time, I plan to run the Adding Botanical Detail workshop again in 2027. To be the first to hear when new dates go live:

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Each session is small, friendly and full of practical ideas to take home — whether you want to refresh a piece of furniture or simply enjoy a creative day out surrounded by like-minded people.

Bring your creativity, I'll supply the paint.
I can't wait to see what you create next!

Love Jill

Adding Botanical Detail with Chalk Paint – Highlights from Our March Workshop