ONSITE Botanical Watercolour Painting: Summer Flowers - Sun 25th June 2023
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JM250623-8
£102.00
£102.00
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Tutor Jan Mehigan
10am - 4pm
Lunch & afternoon tea provided
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This one-day workshop is suitable for complete beginners and those at a more advanced level
Workshop Details
We will be drawing and painting colourful summer flowers. You may bring your own specimens but I will supply some of my own for you. I will demonstrate how to begin using observational drawing. We will discuss colour mixing to create the images that we all wish for and begin painting using fresh clean colour; learning the techniques of wet-into-wet; wet-into-dry; building the colour to give rich details and creating soft shadows to give light and clarity to the work. We will look at how to mask areas and lift colour. We will also be mixing greens which is always difficult, to enhance the leaves and stems. I shall demonstrate how to create and arrange composition. Three small paintings will be created during the day where you can try the different techniques that you need to learn. This class is meant to be informative, fun, enjoyable and rewarding.
Skills / Techniques Covered
Materials
Materials are not included in the booking fee
Students - please bring with you:
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.
10am - 4pm
Lunch & afternoon tea provided
Click here for Timings & Refreshments
This one-day workshop is suitable for complete beginners and those at a more advanced level
Workshop Details
We will be drawing and painting colourful summer flowers. You may bring your own specimens but I will supply some of my own for you. I will demonstrate how to begin using observational drawing. We will discuss colour mixing to create the images that we all wish for and begin painting using fresh clean colour; learning the techniques of wet-into-wet; wet-into-dry; building the colour to give rich details and creating soft shadows to give light and clarity to the work. We will look at how to mask areas and lift colour. We will also be mixing greens which is always difficult, to enhance the leaves and stems. I shall demonstrate how to create and arrange composition. Three small paintings will be created during the day where you can try the different techniques that you need to learn. This class is meant to be informative, fun, enjoyable and rewarding.
Skills / Techniques Covered
- Basic observational drawing
- Use of tracing paper
- Loose paint washes to create delicate effects.
- Creating light and shadow and tonal changes.
- Mixing colour. Lifting and masking techniques
- Learning about good composition. Using the correct brushes.
Materials
Materials are not included in the booking fee
Students - please bring with you:
- Please bring your usual painting materials for watercolour painting. If this is your first time please bring six to eight colours of watercolour paint in either tubes of pans (Winsor and Newton – Daler Rowne - Schmincke or any good quality paint. Please do not bring children’s paints or brushes as however well you try they will not work well for you.
- Your colours should include Permanent Rose or similar, Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow or similar, Lemon Yellow, Ultramarine blue and Cerulean Blue (or Cobalt Blue or Winsor Blue). In addition, you may wish to bring Burnt Sienna and/or Raw Umber.
- PAPER: Bring 2 or three small sheets of Hot Pressed 90 or 140 lb watercolour paper or one bigger piece. This can be Arches, Waterford Hot Pressed paper, Fabriano Artistico or Fabriano 5 (Classico) or Hot Pressed Bockingford.
- BRUSHES: Three good paint brushes (though you can bring more). They must have good points! Nos. 7 or 8 round, No. 2 or 3 round and a small brush Nos: 00 for finer detail.
- Graphite pencils: HB and 2B plus an eraser
- A couple of “old “brushes for mixing paint.
- Kitchen towel
- A small natural sponge (optional but very handy)
- Masking fluid and a pen or cocktail stick for its application
- Notebook
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.