Welcome to Watercolour: A Beginner’s Guide to Everything
Overview
For absolute beginners and intermediate painters who want to brush up on their skills and understanding.
Discover the Joy of Watercolour—Stress-Free.
Escape into colour in this 5-week daytime watercolour course designed to fit seamlessly into your week. Perfect for absolute beginners looking for a creative outlet, as well as practicing artists wanting to refine their workflow.
Why this daytime course fits your schedule:
Zero Prep, Zero Cleanup: Walk in and paint. All high-quality materials are provided for you in-studio (a £65+ value), so you don't have to carry heavy supplies around.
Personalised Pace: Small class sizes mean you get gentle, one-on-one guidance from a professional artist with 30 years of experience. No pressure, just progress.
Bite-Sized Techniques: Learn water behaviour, simple colour mixing, and easy composition layouts for still life, florals, and landscapes using a structured, step-by-step method.
Course Summary
Week 1 (15 Oct): Getting to Know the Medium
Understanding the behaviour 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 (22 Oct): 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 (29 Oct): 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 (05 Nov): 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 (12 Nov): 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.
Early Bird Price: £240 until 23 September
Standard Price: £275 from 24 September
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