Name: Watercolour Seahorse Workshop
Start: 2025-05-24T13:00:00+01:00
Location: Growth & Gratitude Studio

Join local Watercolour & Acrylic Artist, Helen Worthington for an experimental watercolour workshop.
Since 2005, Helen has concentrated on producing spectacular artworks in a variety of media - acrylics, watercolour, line and wash, pastels, mixed media and, more recently, oil paints.
Constantly renewing her interest in different forms of painting and subject matter has always been a driving force for her art projects to date.
Helen describes herself as a ‘self-learning’ artist and is delighted to share her knowledge through workshops with you here at the studio.
Experience Level: Beginners to Intermediate. (Some experience of watercolours may be helpful, for
example, if you’ve been on the ‘Watercolour Experience’ Workshop, but full instruction will be given to everyone during the session).
Workshop Plan: Seahorses are such beautiful, colourful and delicate creatures, making them the ideal subject for a watercolour project. A drawing will be provided for you on suitable watercolour paper, so you don’t need to worry about drawing the seahorse yourself.
To start with, there will be a ‘warm-up’ exercise with the watercolours we’ll be using, to give you the
opportunity to choose/mix your preferred colours, test brushes and different application methods of the paint before we start.
You’ll also be shown how to use masking fluid to ensure there are areas of white paper left to show through after the paints have been used – a useful technique to acquire for future watercolour paintings.
The rest of the session will be the completion of the Seahorse, and you will have produced a medium-sized piece of artwork at the end.
Please don’t forget to bring something with you to carry your project home in – a small lidded tray or box
will be fine.