Develop a landscape of rolling fields full of texture and pattern in watercolour.

Bring your own source photo and be introduced to ‘gravity painting’ using tubed paint and lifting off techniques to take home a colourful ‘masterpiece’.

Watch Catherine demonstrate tips on composition, pooling paint in water to merge colours and plan sharply contrasting edges. Try using salt and clingfilm to create a ploughed field from textured washes before ‘lifting-off’ furrows and adding sharp detail. The session ends with a review and troubleshooting techniques to take home.

Materials list:

Aquafine Watercolour Artboard (A3) by Daler Rowney – strongly recommended. Available to purchase on the day (£2 /sheet).
Wooden support board that is bigger than A3 & prop (eg box/block/tin)
2B pencil & eraser
3 watercolour brushes – one inch flat, one medium flat and one fine
Water jar/tub
Kitchen roll
Paint palette with large wells
Tubes of watercolour paint. Some suggested colours: turquoise; ultramarine; raw sienna; sap green; violet; burnt umber; lemon yellow; Alizarin crimson.