Experimental Watercolour Painting

Instructor Martha Bull

Cost $225

2-Days
Saturday & Sunday May 3- May 4
Time: 10:00am-4:00pm daily

Description:

This is a two day workshop designed to explore painting on yupo. It will be excellent for both beginning artists as well as professionals.This course is designed to be a lot of fun, exciting, encouraging and rewarding. It will definitely loosen and open your watercolour practice and help beginning watercolourists start their practice using the proper paper, paints etc.

Both days we will work on large pieces, using stamps, palette knives, brushes, found objects, leaves and textures to build images. The second half of the first day we will create a collection of cards from the images you have created.

The second day will be spent creating large scale paintings, applying what we have learned. 

Materials Required

Materials are supplied, but if you have a good set of watercolour paints and favourite brushes, please bring them! Plus other items to create textures.

Experimental Watercolour Painting Workshop

$225.00

2 Days

Day One

Exercise 1

1. Colours: triad for cohesive colour; transparent (plus turquoise)
   Wet in wet, wet on dryad drybrush

2. Lines: crayons etc and squeegies and grass and sticks, end of your brush

3. Resists

4. Granulation: lunar black and Granulation medium

5. Charcoal

6. Images cut from Soft Lino (from my collection)

7. Surprises and experiments

8. Positive/negative shapes: wiping, q-tips etc

9. Catalogue your work

Exercise 2

1. Create a large scale painting using what you have learned 

2. If you love it as is keep it large scale.

3. If that is the case paint another large scale painting and create cards from it.

Day Two

After acquainting yourself with the way to work with watercolour on yupo it is time to make your own blocks. You will create your own tiles using Soft Lino block and cutting tools.

Create painting(s) using your own imagery.