Week 2, Watercolours Class

Today we did wet on wet work and the concept of negative space to create this painting.

Watercolour parrot

All done using watercolour pencil crayons. Very fast & flowing, the idea was to capture movement instead of painting specific feathers.

Spring is here!

We've had so many birds in our yard, I thought I better paint one 😊

Adult watercolours, week 4

It's been another awesome 4 week
class, we finished our poppies and a sunflower this week. Fabulous work, everyone!

Wet on wet sunflower

This is a sunflower done very very quickly, using only cadmium yellow, cobalt blue, cadmium red, and burnt Sienna. I love the negative shapes of the petals.

List of cool & warm colours

For my students - when starting out, remember to try to only use 3 colours per painting, and don't mix warms with cools (mixing cools & warms creates muddy colours.)

In order by hue: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, brown.

Warm: Cadmium Red, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Yellow, Gamboge, Sap Green, Emerald Green, Cobalt Blue, and Pthalo Blue, Burnt Umber, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna.

Cool: Alizarin Crimson (my favourite), Permanent Rose, Dioxaxine Violet, Yellow Ochre (it's actually a cool orange), Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow Light, Raw Umber, Pthalo Green (or Viridian), Cerulean Blue, Prussian Blue, Payne's Grey, Raw Umber

Ultramarine Blue's place is argued by many artists. Next to Phthalo (Intense) Blue, Ultramarine is definitely cool. So I keep it in my cool pallet.

Stone Crop Succulent

Here's a succulent from my garden

Students' Work

From our intro watercolours class, and our art taster class.