Landscape Painting With Watercolours

In this session we will learn how to paint a landscape with watercolours, using such basic techniques such as making a wash, layering and overlapping colour areas, dabbing away paint from a wet layer (clouds!)  and adding marks from brushstrokes to show reflections of light in the water or grasses in the foreground. We will start with making a pencil sketch and then adding layers of paint to it.

Please bring:

A4 watercolour paper

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

Watercolours – basic colours (red, blue, yellow), plus: magenta, ochre, black, green, browns (a red-brown, and a dark brown)

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

Water container

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…