Watercolour With Peter David Scott
6-Week Course
6-Week Course
This will be a 6 week mixed ability course beginning with the first principles of working with watercolour. There will be a weekly step-by-step demonstration which the students will follow, so students will have a completed picture at the end of each workshop.
Subjects will be chosen to introduce a specific set of skills in the medium and will be tailored to be achievable within the 2 hour class. The colours used will be limited, allowing students to become familiar with their properties and Peter will advise on the use of various kinds of brushes, paper and mixing media.
During the class, there will be one to one advice on each student’s work and Peter will take time to answer any individual queries. This can often lead into group discussion, if the problem is a shared one. After the six weeks, the students should have grasped the basic principles of watercolour and hopefully wish to continue with this rewarding medium.
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Course Timetable
Subjects Covered
You Will Learn
Basic colour mixing
Laying down a wash
Working light to dark
Masking
Using a limited palette
Colour perspective
Light, shade and tonal value
Creating texture
Using pen and wash
Painting using ‘Wet in wet’, ‘wet on dry’ and drybrush.
You Will Need
Watercolour paints, if you have your own
Paint brushes, if you have your own
Watercolour paper, if you have your own
Ordinary pencil
Eraser
Jam jar for water
Some paints, watercolour paper and brushes will be available for anyone who does not have materials at first or hasn’t a specific colour we are using. Specific materials will be supplied for certain, for instance, pens for ‘pen and wash’. Please bring your own preferred paper, paint and brushes if you have them. Peter will advise you on the best options should they wish to buy your own.
Facebook Group
You will be invited to a closed Facebook group exclusively for those attending the course to post your finished work, received step by step guides from Peter when necessary, and information on what will happen from week to week. Peter will post his finished demonstration piece as a guide along with reminders of the methods in the Facebook Group so that you can continue your paintings at home.
For those who do not use Facebook, a group emails with similar updates will be sent to you.
About Peter
Peter is an award-winning illustrator with nearly 50 solo books published worldwide. He has been commissioned by most of the well-known publishing houses, including Reader’s Digest, Harper Collins, Random House, Bloomsbury, Dorling Kindersley and 16 children’s books for Usborne. He has also worked in television, advertising and regularly in magazines, supplying all the artwork for the monthly column ‘Hidden Britain’ in BBC Wildlife magazine. His artwork has been exhibited in London, Norwich and many venues in his native Yorkshire as well as the ‘Art of the Picture Book’ exhibition as part of the Guildford Book Festival. He has a large watercolour in the permanent collection of ‘Nature in Art’ in Gloucestershire. His artwork was selected for the Association of Illustrators annual in 2012. Peter has recently completed 24 watercolour artworks for a new book ‘Time to Rhyme’ which is out now. Peter has taught painting and drawing in various media for over 25 years and currently runs several popular classes and workshops.
