Welcome to Watercolour: A Beginner’s Guide to Everything

All high quality materials provided for class, aiding each student's greatest potential. Just bring yourself. Small class size guarantees focused one on one instruction from a professional artist with 30 years of experience.

With an approachable, structured method you will learn: applied pigment & water behavior, the nature of materials and surfaces, brush & blending techniques, colour theory & palette organisation, and how to create beautiful compositions for still life, landscapes, & florals.

Course Summary:

Week 1: Getting to Know the Medium

Understanding the behavior of water mixed pigment. We'll start with painting a simple object and background monochromatically in a controlled manner, acquainting you with the material and "personality" of pigment on surface.

Week 2: Introduction of the Colour Palette

Grasp basic theory and palette organisation for clean, effective applications. Explore control in colour intensity and temperature shifting. We'll paint a small flower, witnessing the full spectrum of what's possible with colour!

Week 3: Useful Techniques in Context

Expand upon applied techniques of adding paint to surface such as wet into wet, charging, dry brushing, glazing and more. Create a beautiful highland landscape using these exciting new brush marking methods!

Week 4: Painting a Still Life - Blocking In

Extending the palette, we will make additions to colour organisation. Begin a two part still life painting with a pleasing and dynamic composition.

Week 5: Painting a Still Life - Final Revisions

Continuation of the still life creating rich light and shadow relationships, colour punches, and detail. A culmination of your new skills and creative journey.