Intro to Watercolours!

Join us for an immersive beginners' watercolour class, where you can discover the beauty of this medium in just 3 hours on a Saturday afternoon. Our expert tutor Ann Mackowski, featured on Landscape Artist of the Year and an exhibitor with the prestigious Royal Watercolour Society, will guide you through techniques and provide all necessary materials. Unleash your creativity and learn from the best in this intensive and inspiring art experience. Joined us before? You won't be bored! All demonstration exercises are new, and a great way to expand your technical abilities!

We'll start with simple exercises designed to get even the most novice of art-makers started, and build up to more involved techniques with live demonstrations. In the middle there will be a tea break with refreshments and a chance to get to know your fellow classmates.

As the class progresses, you'll have the opportunity to create a complete landscape painting, which you will proudly take home. Additionally, we offer access to online study resources, including video tutorials, allowing you to review and reinforce what we cover in class. Just bring yourself - all materials are provided.

To learn more about our classes visit www.privateartevents.co.uk, or visit Ann's website www.annmackowski.com.

Info: Brief intro to watercolours as a medium, including difference between paper and paint types. Don't worry, we'll get painting straight away!

Info: Learn how to mix watercolours for painting and a variety of different water and brush techniques including graduated and variegated washes, "dropping in", wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry techniques, spattering, and using a resist (don't worry--this all sounds much more complicated than it is!). Plus, we'll be making many of these exercises in card format so you can start your holiday card collection!

Info: Now we'll enter the exciting world of colour! Learn how to create life-like colours that are anything but straight-out-of the bottle. In this exercise we'll be doing colour matching, and learning how to choose a palette.

Info: Now Ann will teach you how to put all of these techniques together to create your own painting! Ann will be giving a complete watercolour painting demonstration before handing out photo references that you can work from to create your own unique composition. Don't worry if you don't remember everything--you'll be given a video link to this demonstration so that you can review it to your hearts content afterward.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

8 Hop Gardens, 8 Hop Gardens, London, United Kingdom