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Wonders of Watercolours with our popular tutor Pauline Smith offers students the opportunity to master their skills and techniques.
Students new to watercolour or with only a little experience, will enjoy this course, which is designed to the learning of specific, basic, watercolour painting skills. Each week students will learn a new technique and practice learned skills. Students will be professionally guided to create bright vibrant colourful paintings.
Cost Breakdown Member: $238.50 Incl GST = $29.81 per class (11.93 per hour)
Cost Breakdown Non Member: $265.00 Incl GST = $33.13 per class ($13.25 per hour)
Current members will receive 10% discount.
To learn more about how to become a member click on this link.
Beginners and intermediates welcome.
Students are required to bring their own art supplies.
Students with existing materials, need to bring what they have. Tutor will assess on first day. Make sure you have plenty of practice paper plus a quarter sheet of high quality paper for each lesson.
Materials are available from Gordon Harris in Albany, up by the North Shore district courthouse. They have a list of these materials. Some paints can be purchased from Whitcoulls, Paper Plus, or Warehouse Stationery. Please note that the cost of materials could be about $200 as you are enrolling on a class where the materials can be used for many years.
Paint student grade is fine, artist quality optional:
Tube paints please. ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, cadmium yellow, raw sienna, alizarin crimson, cadmium red, burnt sienna, Indigo.
Optional other colours Van Dyke brown, New Gamboge yellow, Prussian blue, Hookers green, phthalo green/blue, perylene green. Use Horadam, Winsor Newton, Cottmans all reliable brands for paint.
Do not get Reeves, or Marie’s paint or paper.
Paper for all artists:
For the term: 2 full sheets of watercolour paper, (approx. $15.00 per sheet) 300gsm cold press rough 100% rag (cotton), Extra White or Traditional White or one of each. New students bring entire sheet, you will be shown how to cut it. Choose from Fabriano, Arches or Saunders Waterford, all high quality papers. Cheap papers will not take the water for wet on wet painting.
Practice paper: Fabriano 25% cotton, 1264 pad, 300gsm retails at $35.99. (Or similar).