What you'll learn
Unleash your inner artist and dive into the magical world of painting in this fantastic watercolour adventure for beginners, as part of our painting short courses in Sydney.
Delve into this watercolour course by starting with sketching on watercolour paper, we'll explore a gentle approach that avoids damaging the paper's texture. Students will lightly outline the basic sketch using a pencil, ensuring the texture remains intact. Moving on to essential colour indicators for watercolour painting—Transparency, Lightfastness, and Staining—we'll discuss how understanding these properties is crucial for achieving desired effects and preserving the integrity of your artwork.
Following the sketch, we'll guide students step-by-step through painting a landscape, emphasizing layering, colours, and shading techniques. Techniques like wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry will be introduced to bring the sky, sea, and various landscape elements to life. We'll also delve into the importance of lights and shadows, demonstrating how to maintain the brightness of the paper and add volume through well-placed shadows. Students will further learn to depict water reflections and texture, enriching their watercolour compositions with depth and detail.
Once you have completed this course you may like to join our Advanced Sketching & Watercolour Course: Landscapes to expand on what you have been learning.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this sketching & watercolour course, you should have:
- An understanding of sketching onto watercolour paper without damaging the texture of the page
- Experience with watercolours and how to transition from one colour to another
- Experimented with wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, and dry-brushing methods
- Introduction to how to paint a simple landscape scene and create water reflections and texture
Course content
What will be covered in this watercolour painting workshop?
- Wet-on-wet: Wet the paper with clean water and then apply watercolour paint to create soft, blended effects mostly used for backgrounds.
- Wet-on-dry: Apply paint to dry paper, for more precise details in the second phase.
- Dry Brushing: Use a mostly dry brush with minimal water to create texture.
- Gradients: Create smooth transitions from one colour to another, how to use slope to make the transition smoother.
- How to emphasise volume by adding shadows
- Introduction to lights and shadows, how to maintain lights by keeping the white of watercolour paper
Intended audience
Who is this painting course for?
This class is perfect for beginners who want to try something new or add to their creative repertoire.
Course venue
2A Gordon Street, Rozelle NSW 2039 (corner of Gordon St & Victoria Rd on the grounds of St. Joseph's Church)
Course materials
What to bring to class
- Option 1 bring along your own materials.
- Option 2 purchase a kit at the checkout and collect it prior to class from the front office.
Additional information
Please note the following:
- Closed-in shoes required
- Please wear old clothes
- Long hair must be tied back
Course tutors
Saba Ghorbanimanesh
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