
Week 6–8
Class Description
Watercolours! Most people want to learn this medium, and it is perfect to move onto these after learning colour in our oil pastel week. We will be teaching on the colour wheel, mixing your watercolours, brush types and the different techniques and effects you can achieve. We will be starting off with simple objects and then moving onto more ambition and beautiful pieces of art. Watercolours are a beautiful medium and we have 3 fun weeks with several different projects to explore.
Starting off with simple, monochrome, coloured items, we will explore how the paints work and what types of mark making we can achieve with a lot of guidance along the way. We then move on to slightly more ambitious images. You can paint the images we provide or perhaps bring in something that inspires you to paint. We will show you how to get your composition correct first, how to mix your colours and finally how to paint the images.
We then explore images of action. We capture movement using paints and techniques by simplifying the image and breaking it down into manageable steps.