10 week course

Jason will lead you through a few different approaches to flower painting with watercolour helping you see how an image may be built up layer on layer into a finished artwork. He will also help you construct your own paintings using some of the ideas shown on the course.

Medium - Watercolour and gouache

Level – This course would suit those that have a little experience of watercolour.

Why does Jason think this course would be of value to you as a watercolour painter ?

Flower painting is one of the areas of painting where you can let rip with colour. You have to rethink your approaches to colour mixing with a 'no dirty mixes' approach to keep the colours really vibrant. It's also an area of art where you may have to plan quite carefully how you structure the image in layers. So you have to think your actions through carefully then be flowing and gestural with your mark making to reflect the flower forms which sometimes feels like a contradiction in approach. In other words this is a quite unique painting area that has much to teach anyone who explores it.

What will you do on the course ?

• Look at how to handle the brush to make shapes      that reflect flower forms

• Examine how other artists have rendered      flowers – what can we learn from it ?

• Explore dissolving forms while still retaining      the overall feel of the plant.

• Ideas for making backgrounds

• Using masking fluid to stop out whites.

• Breaking down an image into logical layers

• Create finished flower painting exercises

• Create your own finished flower painting

What will you need to bring ?

Please bring your usual watercolour painting kit to the first class, plus a misting water spray bottle and a kitchen J-cloth. Please note that you will need to bring a drawing board and water pots as these are not provided at the centre.

You will also need to bring drawing paper, a pen and pencil, eraser and sharpener, some drawing paper, watercolour, paper to the first lesson as well as your painting kit.

Tea and coffee are provided