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  • ONSITE Lively Blooms in Watercolour - Fri 9th June 2023

ONSITE Lively Blooms in Watercolour - Fri 9th June 2023

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Tutor Nicky Hunter
10am - 4pm
Lunch & afternoon tea provided

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This one-day, onsite workshop is suitable for all abilities except absolute beginner (some experience, even if it is just a little bit will be beneficial) There will be a mixture of ongoing demonstrating and one-to-one attention, thereby enabling everyone to work to the best of their ability and develop their watercolour skills whether their level whatever their level

Workshop Details
Create an expressive, abundant floral artwork of mixed flowers in a simple contemporary vase setting. Nicky's enthusiasm, knowledge and passion for teaching watercolour is as radiant as her floral paintings; She will show you how to paint beautiful, bold blooms in an impressionistic style.

If you attended the day before this is a further opportunity to practice painting roses amongst other types of flora. If you did not attend the previous day you will equally enjoy the workshops as you will be guided through how to create the different types of flowers. The techniques are not just limited to flora, you will take away inspiration and methods transferable to to bring vive to other subjects you may wish to paint in watercolour. 

Skills & Techniques Covered
  • How to keep your colours vibrant and lustrous
  • Loosen up your artworks using simplified compositions
  • Apply lively sparkling brushwork in direct painting and wet into wet methods.

Materials
Materials are not included in the booking fee.
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Students Please Bring 
Please bring your own watercolour kit which should consist of the following items

Watercolour paints 
  • Any brand is OK but academy, or student quality to be avoided. Tube paints are preferable over skechers pan sets.
Watercolour brushes 
  • A medium and large round or mop style squirrel or sable
  • A small and medium pointed round brush - synthetic 
  • Small detailer brush 
Watercolour paper 
  • Rough or Not surface paper is required 140 1b weight
    • I use Saunders Waterford Rough High White (Cotton Rag). Any good quality brand such as Fabriano, Bockingford, Arches or Langton is fine.
  • Size - minimum 1/4 imperial ( A3) but some sheets of half imperial are good to help you scale up your work and experiment with different formats too.
Other items
palette, drawing board, kitchen roll, pencil, rubber, masking tape or framing tape
 
Colour Selection 
A Warm and a cool shade of each primary and an earth tone is good to have in any watercolour palette. We will use the following, although the list is a guide and not exact, we can work with other guest colours and whatever you have in your palate. Tube paints are preferable to pans to work large, loose and fluidly
 
  • Lemon yellow or transparent yellow (cool)
  • Raw Sienna ( warm)
  • Cobalt blue (cool)
  • Ultramarine blue ( warm)
  • Burnt Umber (warm)
  • Cerulean blue or turquoise (warm)
  • Vermillion Red (warm)
  • Windsor red, Pyroll or permanent red ( primary)
  • Permanent Rose ( warm) 
  • Dioxazine Purple or permanent mauve ( cool) 
  • Turquoise ( warm)
No greens required, these are best mixed with combinations of yellow and blue. 
  • Neutrals - helpful on occasion but not essential 
  • Lamp Black
  • China White 
 
 If you attend this day and wish to really hone your rose painting skills join Nicky for a 2nd day of painting on Friday 9th June to create expressive floral artworks in a simple contemporary vase setting abundant with mixed flowers - which will include roses.
 
You will work from high quality photos and possibly some silk flowers for inspiration provided by the tutor.

We advise that you do not buy any materials required for a course more than two weeks in advance, because occasionally a course is cancelled due to low enrolment.​​

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