Watercolour Basics 1 & 2 Spring '26
£75.00
Following the success of our watercolour beginners’ workshops in 2025, we’ve decided to run them again!
Watercolour Basics 1 is intended as a primer for those who have never painted in watercolour before.
Watercolour Basics 2 takes students through next steps, and will be suitable for those who have completed the first workshop (or either of the beginners workshops from last year) and also for anyone wishing to brush up their skills.
You’ll learn to paint beautiful, fresh washes; to appreciate the extraordinary translucent beauty of the pigments, and their unique capacity to layer and blend and flow. Through practical exercises we’ll help you build confidence and learn to tread the fine line between chaos and control, triumph and disaster, and to embrace the ‘happy accident’.
In the second workshop we will develop further technique, and begin to look more closely at how we can harness our new knowledge to make successful paintings.
Watercolour Basics 1 (Sunday 22nd February)
First steps: Getting the paint on the paper
Materials
Washes
Working with colour and water
Edges
Texture
Negative painting
Watercolour Basics 2 (Sunday 29th March)
Putting the basics to work: from doodles to paintings
Colour
Value
What should I paint?
Planning a painting
Making a Painting
What's included
All materials and resources are included in the course fee. Tea, coffee & biscuits!
Details
The workshops will be run from 10-4pm, with an hours lunch break.
The class will be held in the main studio of Cheltenham School of Fine Art on the first floor of Camargue House, 32 Wellington Lane, Cheltenham GL52 2AG.
What you need to bring to the studio
Please bring your lunch with you or step out to the cafe in Pittville Park to grab a snack. We also recommended that you bring your notebook / sketchbook and pencils with you if you have them.