Introduction to Watercolour

Concepts covered: light and dark, consistent colour, colour theory, warm and cool, observational painting, artist study and interpretation, brushwork, imagination, control

Lesson 1: How to use water colour paints to create dark and light colours, how to keep your paints clean.

Lesson 2: How to create a consistent line of colour, the colours of the rainbow in order.

Lesson 3: Introduction to colour theory, creating a colour wheel

Lesson 4: Working with cold colours, observational painting, different mark-making techniques

Lesson 5: Working with warm colours, observational painting, painting over dried paint

Lesson 6: Artist study and interpretation, creating different types of marks with the paint brush, working quickly.

Lesson 7: Imaginative painting within one colour range, controlling dark to light

Lesson 8: Imaginative painting working with colour theory, contrasting colours.