Welcome to Watercolour: A Beginner’s Guide to Everything (Thurs - 5 Weeks)

Elevate your art with a 5-week immersive watercolour course designed for all skill levels—from absolute beginners to practicing artists.

Skip the stress of buying expensive supplies. All high quality materials provided for class (a £65+ value), 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 during every single session to rapidly develop your technique.

With an approachable, structured method you will learn:

• applied pigment & water behavior
• the nature of materials & surfaces
• brush & blending techniques
• colour theory & palette organisation
• how to create beautiful compositions for still life, landscapes, & florals

Interested in a complete experience in technique and subject matter? Consider taking the Master Course Bundle - Includes both Welcome to Watercolour & The Watercolour Portrait : Expressing Character & Colour at a special rate! (portrait segment Thurs. beginning 15 October, 2 p.m.)

Course Summary
Week 1 (10 Sept): 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 (17 Sept): 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 (24 Sept): 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 (01 Oct): 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 (08 Oct): 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.