18-Car Workshop, Painting Delightful Animals on Wooden Slices With Aurora Spain 16+ 10/Person

Painting delightful animals on wood slices
Come and paint a cute animal on a round slice of wood which you can take home and display in your home.
We will be working with gouache, an opaque watercolour paint which is easy to use and ideally suited to painting on many surfaces and in this case prepared wood slices. The term gouache originated in France in the 18th century, but the earliest gouache paints are known to have been made in Greece and Egypt and were very similar to tempera paints which are usually semi-opaque. The modern version which we use today are opaque. They are basically pigments mixed with a binding agent and water and when applied produce a flat, opaque finish giving a solid graphic feel with no reflection or sheen. Unlike traditional water colour paints, which are transparent qouache completely covers the paper and this makes them ideally suited for fast, colourful and bold designs. Easy to use and easy to reactivate - just add water to the dry pigments. There are some very well known painters who used gouache in their work, notably Henri Matisse who used this medium to achieve the flat, bold colour for his paper cut-outs. See them in The Tate.