Wet-into-Wet: Watercolour Abstraction

With Dixie MacUisdin as your guide, you will explore intuitive painting while practicing basic wet-into-wet techniques including blending, dropping-in, lifting and blotting paint, creating blooms, and drawing with sgraffito. Dixie is an accomplished artist who spent many years as a full-time painting instructor teaching foundational skills and encouring creative expression. She has a BFA in painting and photography, from Mount Allison University in New Brunswick.

This is a small group course with 4 -12 students. Ticket price: $75.

All levels welcome! Supplies required.

Supply List

· 140 lb. CP (cold press) watercolour paper, (100% cotton is best, student quality okay)

· board support: gatorfoam or wood

· suggested tube watercolours: bring what you have or yellow (middle or deep), Magenta, and blue (Winsor or Phthalo Blue - Green Shade)

· welled palette

· various round and flat WATERCOLOUR brushes

· 2 water containers

· eye-dropper

· HB pencil

· old towel

· apron/painting shirt (optional)

Contact Dixie at [email protected] if you have any questions about the course or supplies. You can read more about Dixie here https://www.dixiemacuisdin.com/about-the-artist.html. Artist Statement: https://www.dixiemacuisdin.com/artist-statement.html

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

170 Goldfinch Rd, 170 Goldfinch Road, Victoria, Canada