10 January to 14 February 2025 – 6 Thursday Evening Sessions – Sally Kheng: Experimental Watercolour Course

Description

Experimental Watercolour Course

Total 15 hrs over 6 sessions. (Suitable for beginners) 5pm – 7.30pm.  Thursday evening classes once a week for 6 weeks. 10 January to 14 February

This 6 week watercolour course with professional artist, Sally Kheng, is designed to bring you confidence in this medium. There will be lots of technique demos, helping you to get bolder with your watercolour paints, colours and style. You will be experimenting with different types of materials and tools to learn ways of making fabulous skies, trees and create paintings with dramatic light and dark contrasts. You will complete the 6 week course with a finished watercolour tryptic painting.

Week 1. Thursday January 10th. 5pm – 7.30pm – An introduction to the different materials: Types of watercolour paint, watercolour inks and water soluable gel pens and crayons. A comparison demo and creating an experimental sheet for your reference.

Week 2. Thursday January 17th. 5pm – 7.30pm – Water and brushes: Experimenting with different marks you can make with brushes and other tools. Learning when to use a lot of water and when not to. A demo of brush techniques and where you would use them in a painting.

Week 3. Thursday January 24th. 5pm – 7.30pm – Colour mixing: How to create a beautiful palette for your painting, tips on limiting your colour palette. A demo on mixing, blending colours and lifting out colours. You will create a sheet of blended colourful stripes to use in your final project.

Week 4. Thursday January 31st. 5pm – 7.30pm – Creating wonderful skies: Using wet in wet, wet on dry and paint lifting techniques to make wonderful watercolour skies. Demos and a work sheet will be generated for your reference.

Week 5. Thursday February 7th. 5pm – 7.30pm – Light and dark: Bringing the drama in light and shadow to your painting. A demo on trees and horizon lines and how to make them using the lights and darks in simple brush strokes. Starting the final tryptic project which will be finished in the week 6 class.

Week 6. Thursday February 14th. 5pm – 7.30pm – A landscape tryptic: Creating 3 watercolour paintings cut from one sheet that can be rearranged on a new sheet of paper to make a collage picture, using all the techniques you’ve learnt above.

All the materials for these classes will be provided but please bring your own paints, brushes or other watercolour materials if you would like to use them.

There will be free tea, coffee and biscuits available during your workshops.

Week 1. Thursday January 10th. 5pm – 7.30pm

Week 2. Thursday January 17th. 5pm – 7.30pm

Week 3. Thursday January 24th. 5pm – 7.30pm

Week 4. Thursday January 31st. 5pm – 7.30pm

Week 5. Thursday February 7th. 5pm – 7.30pm

Week 6. Thursday February 14th. 5pm – 7.30pm