Workshops
ONLINE: Gateway in the Woods – Watercolours with Catherine Beale (via Zoom)
Friday 29th January, 10:30-12:30pm
£20
An online watercolour session to help you try Catherine’s loose “gravity painting” watercolour techniques. Step-by-step, form your own impressionistic woodland scene from a photograph (supplied). Watch the way paint dropped into water behaves. Use fewer brushstrokes and more water effects to create bright colours and atmosphere.
We will start by discussing our source photo and break down its composition into a rough pencil plan. Step-by-step demonstrations of my gravity painting techniques will follow to help you create your landscape. Gradually a tree tunnel will emerge from thick areas of foliage, with added salt effects for leafy texture. Finally we will paint crisp lines and a hint of an uplifting sky.
Materials needed for the workshop:
- A3 Daler Rowney Aquafine Watercolour Artboard if possible.
- Table top easel / A3 size board with a 2 inch high rest (eg tin/case/ramekin etc)
- 2B pencil and eraser
- 3 brushes: 1 inch Pro Arte Prolene One Stroke Flat Brush Series 106 or a large watercolour brush
- 3/8 or 1/2 inch flat Pro Arte Prolene One Stroke Flat Brush Series 106 or smaller brush
- 1 rigger brush or fine watercolour brush
- Kitchen roll
- Generous sized Palette
- Table salt
- Tubed watercolour paint – suggested colours: Sap green; turquoise; violet or purple; alizarin
crimson; Raw Sienna.
You will receive instructions for how to join in the Zoom workshop in your confirmation email. Please check your junk folder.
