Expressive watercolours
Learn how to experiment with watercolour, respond to your environment in your work, and combine drawing techniques with your painting to refine your outcomes. Start by exploring a personal colour palette and experimental mark-making to create an energy in your artwork, and then add detail using stencils, pencils, paint and pens.
Ability: Intermediate
The minimum time required to watch and respond to the video content and complete the tasks is 9 hours. The tutor also recommends how you can develop your work further so that you can continue to use the skills acquired on this course for future projects.
Access: Six months of online access to all of the course content.
Ability: Intermediate
The minimum time required to watch and respond to the video content and complete the tasks is 9 hours. The tutor also recommends how you can develop your work further so that you can continue to use the skills acquired on this course for future projects.
Access: Six months of online access to all of the course content.
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Introduction to your tutor Louisa Boyd and workshop overview
Getting started
Workshops
Getting started
- Tools, equipment, materials, and health & safety
Workshops
- Exploring colour combinations
- Creating a mark-making dictionary using watercolours
- Capturing inspiration
- Developing large expressive watercolours
- Refining your final painting
- Conclusion and further information and resources
Course includes:
You will need:
Equipment
Materials
- Access to our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) with course content
- A series of instructional videos to work through and repeat at your own pace
- Practical tasks to complete
- Helpful materials suppliers list
- Student online gallery where you can post images of your work for tutors to review and comment on
- Support from the college and tutors via email should you need it during the course
- Additional notes and ideas
You will need:
Equipment
- Water pots
- Water spray bottle
- Palette
- Wide selection of brushes
- Series of mark-making tools e.g. chop sticks, palette knife, clay modelling tools, cutlery, kebab sticks etc.
- Scissors
- Craft knife
- Cutting mat
- Metal ruler
- Rubber
- Pencil sharpener
- Hairdryer
- Hole punch
- Compass
- Apron
Materials
- String
- A4 sheet of acetate
- Pencil crayons
- Water soluble crayons
- Fine liner pen - water based and permanent
- A5 or A4 sketchbook
- A4 and A2 heavy quality 250 gsm watercolour paper or Daler Rowney Langton Prestige watercolour boards
- Magic eraser
- Artist quality watercolors; tubes ideally - suggested colours: Titanium White, Payne's Grey, Naples Yellow, Burnt Sienna, Carmine, Colbalt Turquoise, Potter's Pink, Davy's Grey, Cobalt Green, Cobalt Blue
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Tutor
Louisa Boyd
Course content
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