Watercolours from Imagination to the Page (Workshop)
Course Overview
The medium of Watercolour is extensive, mysterious and spontaneous!
This workshop introduces participants to the medium, allowing an understanding of its nature. Watercolour techniques can enable the artist to explore images and concepts expressively, abstractly, realistically and intimately with the freedom that transparency, colour and water allow.
Be guided through a series of fun, creative, visual exercises, exploring watercolour techniques including colour theory exercises, using different types of papers, tone, texture, depth, light, masking, expression, abstraction and realism. Following a series of demonstrations, experiment with all aspects demonstrated and work up a final piece of work of your own with one on one instruction from Nettie.
This workshop is beneficial for beginners to advanced and for those with no previous art experience.
Materials List
- Small box of watercolour paints of basic primary and secondary colours
- An A4 or A3 watercolour paper pad (preferably Arches, Rough, 185gm)
- A number 2 and number 4 watercolour paintbrush (round head not flat)
- HB pencil, sharpener, eraser
- An A4 cartridge paper sketch book
- An image or sketch (as reference) that each student would like to develop as watercolour artwork
Testimonials
"Nettie's workshop was delightfully wonderful, it was very inspiring and we could have happily stayed longer. NSCC staff were very efficient, friendly and helpful and I look forward to doing more Workshops next year."
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About the tutor
Nettie Lodge
Nettie Lodge is an Australian artist. She has a Bachelor of Fine Art from Curtin University, WA, and a Post Graduate in Painting from The Banff Centre of Fine Art, Canada. She exhibits regularly in Sydney, where she has had numerous solo shows since 1995. Her recent solo exhibition was a conceptual interpretation of the poem THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER at the Manly Art Gallery and Museum. This involved over 40 works on paper and a narrative installation of a ghost ship.
For the past 20 years, she has been writing and illustrating children’s books, for which she won a CBCA Notable Book Award for her picture book BIRD.
Her most recent picture books have been TELL TAILS, which she wrote and illustrated, published by Green, Olive Press in 2021 and THE WORLD’S GREATEST TACKLE, which she illustrated, written by Bruce Walker and published by Wooddslane Press in 2023.
She works as a freelance illustrator from her studio on Scotland Island where she lives and lectures part time at Torrens University.
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