Daytime painting sessions
The evening classes have now become daytime classes and moved to Hanley Swan village hall. They take place on a Thursday afternoon 2pm to 5pm.
£6 per session.
Learn to paint with watercolours or
Develop your watercolour painting skills
Individual guidance.
Small groups.
Frequently asked questions.
Q Do I have to have painted or drawn before?
A. No you don’t. We run a beginners day if you want a ‘condensed’ course to start you off, alternativelyyou can start on these short sessions and learn a little at a time.
Q. There are specific areas of my work I want help with developing, is this possible?
A. As the group is small I have the time to concentrate on you.
Q. Why watercolours?
A. Watercolours are quick, clean and portable. The unpredictability and lack of total control makes them the most exciting and expressive engaging medium of all.
Q. What sort of skills am I likely to be developing?
A. I’ve listed some of the skills we’ll be developing
Washes
The most basic watercolour technique is a flat wash.
Glazing
Washes applied over existing washes when they are dry.
Wet in Wet
Simply the process of applying paint to an area of wet paper.
Dry Brush
The brush is loaded with paint and is dragged across paper that is completely dry.
Dropping in colour
Simply dropping colour into a wet area of the painting and allowing it to blend and bleed without any input from yourself .
Reserving or creating white paper
We’ll explore the various methods of keeping paper white or creating highlights.
Lifting out colour
Used to soften edges, modify and diffuse colours and create
highlights that cannot be reserved by other methods.
Hard and soft edges
A combination of hard and soft edges help produce a successful painting.
Texture and Pattern
There are a whole host of methods to introduce texture and pattern to your work.
Underdrawing
Drawing in pencil enough of the image you are about to paint to make painting easier.
Line and Wash
Using a pen as well as watercolours washes.
Composition
We’ll explore and develop the various elements of composition.
For those of you who are new to painting we begin with the basics,
stretching paper, which brushes to use, mixing the colours etc. Its all very straightforward and fun and over time you will start to develop your own painting style.
With practice, the techniques I’ve briefly outlined will become some of the skills you will be using automatically.
