Abstract Art With Watercolours – And Techniques Practice

In this session we learn basic watercolour techniques and use them to make abstract compositions. We will learn how to make continuously coloured washes, wet-in-wet colour textures, and how to layer colours using the transparency particular to watercolour paints. If you would like to practice techniques but would like your practice to come together in the form of interesting pictures – this session is for you!

Please Bring

A4 watercolour paper

Masking tape and hard backing board (does not have to be a ‘proper’ drawing board’

Watercolours – basic colours (red, blue, yellow), plus: magenta, ochre, black, green

Water container

Brushes: a size 10 brush and a size 1 or 0 (all round brushes) – if you have additional brushes …bring them too

Loo roll or other soft tissue paper

Pencil (HB – the pencils should not be too soft else we get too dark lines)  and pencil sharpener

Rubber

Please, check that you can use your bag or any other item on the table to lean the drawing board against so we get a steep angle for the watercolour paper…