Painting & Drawing

Botanical Painting in Watercolour or Gouache

Start: 16 July 2010 at 6:00 p.m.
End: 18 July 2010 at 2:00 p.m.
With Simon Williams

This course is set out to learn various methods of using Gouache or Watercolour and illustrating a botanical subject successfully. Gouache can be used in different styles. This can either be like a watercolour working light to dark but building up to a more opaque consistency, or dark colours first working highlights on top. It depends on the subject matter as to which way is appropriate and this course will help you look and observe details, mix colour and application techniques. Building up opaque layers is a careful process but is ideal for finely detailed work such as botanical illustration.

Whichever medium is used a lot of the course painting will be done using a ‘dry brush’ method. This is a process that allows detail such as leaf veining and fine work to be built up on top of base colours and is an important technique in tight botanical work.

Observations and colour mixes are important so you will be encouraged to produce colour mix swatches to help you. This is the best way to progress with colour and to start building on an instinctive knowledge and knowing your way around a palette.

 The course will have a demonstration to start with before you start painting and from then on tuition will be given on an individual basis

MATERIALS LIST :-   BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATION IN GOUACHE / WARERCOLOUR

A selection of colour ranges for which ever medium you will work in.

Gouache paint – Winsor Newton colours:-                 W & N Artist watercolour:-

                Naples Yellow  Sap Green
                Permanent Green Middle Light Red
                Flesh Tint French Ultramarine
                Golden Yellow Winsor Lemon
                Vandyke brown Cadmium Yellow
                Indigo Blue Opera Rose
                Rose Carthame Scarlet Lake
                Permanent White Cobalt Blue
                Havanah lake Burnt Sienna
                Light Green  ( Daler Rowney ) Prussian Blue
                Cadmium Orange Cerulean Blue
Students can use some of the tutor’s paints, as these are a wide range, in place of colours they are unable to purchase. Not all of these will be used on the course as it depends on colours of subjects to paint at the time.

Brushes: Sable sizes 2, 4. ( Maybe a 6 but optional and not essential to buy )

Jam Jar or something to hold water for mixing.

Pencil 2H or H. Nothing softer as botanical illustration  requires clear clean lines.

Palette.  China palettes are the best or a china plate rather than plastic.

Paper will be available from tutor at £1 per sheet.( Fabriano Pittura ) Ideal for gouache work or supply yourself with a Hot Pressed 140lb watercolour paper or a Hot Pressed Daler Board.

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