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 MediumUnderstanding 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 PaletteGrasp 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 ContextExpand 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 InExtending 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 RevisionsContinuation of the still life creating rich light and shadow relationships, colour punches, and detail.

A culmination of your new skills and creative journey.