THE COURSE at a Glance

Over the course of three paint-along Zoom sessions we will dive into the often challenging, but extremely rewarding and expressive world of capturing the human form in watercolours.

This course will be less about theory and more an exploration of this particular medium in relation to the subject; playing with ideas and principles whilst getting creative with watercolour.

Whilst I have cut out the dry foundational theory of the first course, naturally we will still cover all of the essential principles.

Each session will begin with an hour or so of working directly with sepia watercolour, no drawing first, on smaller A4 size pieces. This is much more fun than it is scary, I promise!

Students have been amazed at how a figure slowly appears from a collection of washes and marks!! This is such an exciting practice in its own right, but will also improve your general watercolour painting enormously!

The rest of each session will be devoted to working in colour over an existing drawing (line art supplied, drawings done before each session)

This is when we will explore colour plus how to refine certain areas, creating strong focal points. 

We will be working with backgrounds, simplifying and stepping away from copying, and generally pushing our ideas and themes further toward a finished painting - whilst still retaining the expressive and immediate nature of the medium in relation to this subject.

The introduction of small elements of costume, props and accessories will be covered. These won't be dominant features of the paintings, but rather smaller elements that can add an extra ingredient to figurative work.