Painting with confidence: Discover Drawing and Watercolours

This is an in-venue course. Discover drawing and watercolour skills that help you paint with confidence, experiment and enjoy making art.
About this Event

Session Dates and Times:

• Wednesday 30th September, 10:30am - 12:30pm
• Wednesday 7th October, 10:30am - 12:30pm
• Wednesday 14th October, 10:30am - 12:30pm
• Wednesday 21st October, 10:30am - 12:30pm
• Break
• Wednesday 4th November, 10:30am - 12:30pm
• Wednesday 11th November, 10:30am - 12:30pm
• Wednesday 18th November, 10:30am - 12:30pm
• Wednesday 25th November, 10:30am - 12:30pm

Venue:

St John's URC, Corner of Somerset Road and Mowbray Road, New Barnet, EN5 1RH

Course Tutor:

Emanuela-Alina Baloiu

Why take this course?

Watercolour art has a special magic. A wash of colour, a quick sketch, a line that catches the light or a quiet detail from everyday life can become the start of something personal and expressive. This practical course is for anyone who would like to explore drawing and watercolour in a supported, friendly setting, whether you are just beginning or returning to art after time away.

Guided by your tutor, Emma, you will build confidence with your painting and develop your watercolour techniques. With plenty of hands-on painting opportunities, you will also learn classical techniques in a more subtle way, relating them to examples by various artists (such as Cezanne, Turner, or Hockney), observing how they use line, colour, tone and composition to create atmosphere, feeling and meaning. You’ll explore sketching, washes, glazing, colour mixing, graded colour and cross-hatching as you create your own original artworks

By the end of the course, you should feel more able to experiment, make choices about your own work and enjoy the creative process without worrying about getting everything right. If you are a more experienced painter, you will find this course enriching, as it also contains more sophisticated aspects of colour theory and composition.

This is a live, tutor led course. Learning with like-minded people, there will be lots of opportunities to share your own knowledge and ideas and to hear from others.

No previous knowledge is needed, just an interest in the topic and a willingness to explore and share ideas.

Since 1903 the WEA have been delivering on our charitable mission - to bring lifelong learning within reach of everybody who needs it.

Today, we continue to empower adults by delivering great teaching across England and Scotland, reaching tens of thousands of learners each year.

We believe in keeping group sizes down, making it easier for you to speak up, get to know your fellow learners and get actively involved in learning and sharing your own expertise.