Do you want to paint with watercolours but are worried about their scary reputation? Or have you started painting in this great medium but want to loosen up your techniques and be more expressive? This painting retreat has been designed for you as a beginner. Spend two tutored days of demos and guidance in a small group to help you…
Make a brave start with watercolours and discover the joy of mixing colour directly on your painting. Explore dramatic as well as harmonious colour combinations. Enjoy the positive feedback from using rich tubed paint (provided) whilst creating beautiful landscape scenes and take away lots of ideas to feed back into your art. Spend two tutored days in a small group…
This one day workshop is designed to familiarise you with the way watercolours can be used to loosely describe the seated figure. With the help of a live model and demos build a likeness in paint. Study elements of proportion and perspective, light and shadows. Embrace the white paper and allow the development of watermarks to lighten the “weight” of…
Take an in depth look at reflecting and glowing sunlight. Trace its path across moving water, filtering past buildings and doorways and interrupted by leaves. Compose and record its drama using the full range of tone from the white of the paper to intense tubed paint. Mix colours cleanly for added 'freshness' and help your paintings 'come alive'. The group…
An exciting opportunity for a private morning sketching tour within these Grade-1 listed Italianate gardens., followed by an afternoon with tuition to work up your drawings into loose watercolour masterpieces. Includes: garden entry and talk, coffees/teas, handout and tuition. Please bring a packed lunch. Timings: 10:15-16:00 Please arrive by 10:15 for 10:30-12:30 garden tour; drive back to Museum of Bath…
Harness the language of wet-in-wet watercolour and add acrylic inks and chalk pastels to find your own loose style. Follow Catherine's demos to make swatches of pattern, texture and watermarks. Practice composition and explore colour compliments, harmony and tone to develop a visual language and your imagination. All welcome. Includes acrylic inks, pastels, artboard and teas/coffees. Please bring a packed…
