Watercolour - Exploring Colour & Light -'Field of Daisies" - SATURDAY 22/11

Learn how to paint in Watercolours. Each workshop will have new content so it is suitable for continuing students as well as beginners. 🎨✨

Watercolour is a medium well known for its unpredictability, yet it offers such elegant transparency and romantic subtlety. Developing confidence with watercolour begins by understanding its core characteristics. It’s not overly difficult to learn, but it does require guidance and regular practice.

In this workshop, you will complete a finished artwork to take home, with a focus on the following key areas:

1.     Understanding the nature of watercolour – including transparency, fluidity, and the importance of timing, as well as the medium’s permanent and irreversible qualities.

2.     Water and pigment ratio – exploring how different levels of dilution affect brushwork, granulation, blooming, and how water is absorbed into the paper.

3.     Layering techniques – learning how to build transparent layers to create depth and convey light.

4.     Wet-on-wet application – using wet paper to create atmospheric effects and observe how pigment behaves and spreads.

5.     Dry-on-wet application – achieving more controlled edges and soft transitions through careful timing and brush control.

6.     Masking fluid – the workshop’s key focus — is a resistive medium that blocks paint to preserve white areas in watercolour.

We begin with guided technical skill-building exercises, followed by applying these techniques to a final artwork: a 'Field of Daisies', which serves as the central project for this session.

All materials: Arches 300g watercolour paper, student quality paints, masking medium and squirrel hair brushes, and morning tea—are provided, but if you have your own brushes and watercolours please bring these along.

BYO your lunch

Please note: this is not a Paint and Sip style workshop; it is a focused, skill-based session designed to develop your watercolour techniques

I will encourage you to embrace the challenge of pushing your boundaries, to let go of expectations, to be open to learn from your mistakes, but most importantly, have fun and enjoy the process! After all, art making is just practice.

1. The Studio is ABOVE the Golf Club building at Quamby Estate.

2. Park your car in the car park on the left as you drive in.

3. There are 17 stairs to the studio.

4. The bathroom is downstairs.

CANCELLATION POLICY:
If for some reason you need to cancel, email juliemcdonald236@gmail.com

*N.B. We have a no-refund policy in place. If you are unable to attend, we will provide you with a credit that can be used for a future class or workshop.