PSA Magic of Watercolours with Pauline Smith

This course is aimed at beginners / people with some watercolour painting  skills who are  wishing to learn / learn more about the basic techniques of watercolour painting.

Students will learn to mix colours, lay washes,  gain an understanding of values in a painting, create a passage of light through their work,  and gain a solid understanding of composition.

Cost Breakdown Members: $266.00 Incl GST = $33.25 per class ($13.30 per hour).

Cost Breakdown Non Member: $280.00 Incl GST  = $35.00per class ($14.00 per hour). 

Current EAC members will receive 5% discount.

To find out more about how to become a member see our website. 

Entry level students welcome

Students new to watercolour or with some experience.

Students are required to bring their own art supplies.

Materials are available from Gordon Harris in Albany, up by the North Shore district courthouse. Gordon Harris kindly offers a student discount, please ask for it. Some paints can be purchased from Whitcoulls, Paper Plus, or Warehouse Stationery.

Paint student grade is fine: Tube paints please.

ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, new gamboge, raw sienna, alizarin crimson, burnt sienna, indigo or Prussian blue.

Optional extras perylene green, phthalo blue, hookers green light or dark, van dyke brown

Winsor Newton, Cottmans, Horodam, Daniel Smith,   all reliable brands for paint.

 Do not get Reeves or Marie’s paint or paper, or paper/paint from the $2  shop

Paper for Wonders of Watercolour

Fabriano 300 gsm  cp rough, 100% cotton,  2 sheets for the term

 A3 pad of Fabriano watercolour paper, 25% cotton, 300 gsm size.

 Also sketching paper A4 size is ok

Paper: for experienced artists: watercolour paper, 300gsm cold press rough 100% rag (cotton). My preference is  Fabriano paper; Arches or Saunders Waterford are also great papers. Cheap papers will not take the water. 2 full sheets for the term. You will also need an A3 pad of Fabriano 25% cotton.

Brushes:. 

A Colineo Da Vinci Brush size 20 ( or 24  if available)

OR A  20/22 cosmotop mop Code DV 5580/22

And a smaller colineo, size 10

or Code DV 559808  12/14 watercolour brush (da vinci is a great brand)

Lidded plastic palette Expression Palette, lidded EX 18568

Kneadable rubber

2B graphite pencil

board for attaching paper this can be corflute or similar, about A2 size.  

Masking tape

Bring from home: ice cream container and a smaller one which will fit inside this, for water, old towel, (not paper), a sketch book A4 size.