Watercolour Painting Course

A very popular course with materials a little lighter to carry on the aeroplane, a typical watercolour week would include using a variety of monochrome and coloured media-pencil, graphite, pastel, water-coluble charcoal, watercolour pencil, pen and ink as well as watercolour painting. The emphasis, in both sketching and painting, will be on gaining skills and confidence in techniques. From a series of sketches done on location, you will look at ways of interpreting these to develop ideas for compestition and use of colour in the finished painting.

Throughout the year we have courses that cover pen and wash, drawing and coloured pencils, botanical painting, quick sketching, and pen and ink drawing. Watercolor painting has the reputation of being quite demanding; it is more accurate to say that watercolor techniques are unique to watercolor.

Unlike oil or acrylic painting, where the paints essentially stay where they are put and dry more or less in the form they are applied, water is an active and complex partner in the watercolor painting process, changing both the absorbency and shape of the paper when it is wet and the outlines and appearance of the paint as it dries.

The difficulty in watercolor painting is almost entirely in learning how to anticipate and leverage the behaviour of water, rather than attempting to control or dominate it.

We also run specialist course on other weeks, please check out our dates and prices page or contact us for more information.

Sample Itinerary

Check out our sample Watercolour Painting Course itinerary for detailed information of what to expect on one of our painting holidays. Or if you have any questions and would like to discuss the details with us please contact us.

Dates & Prices

This is just a selection of art courses that we are running, you can find a full list of all our art courses on our dates and prices page, or if you would like to arrange your own course please contact us.