Watercolour Painting Workshops
With
Barry Wilton-Middlemass

 

Since retiring from the army after 29 years Barry and his wife Vivien have had tuition from professional painters and have travelled the world with some of them. Travelling to India and Nepal with John Davies and Egypt, Peru and the Lafoten islands in the arctic circle with David Bellamy. Other painters they have studied with include Alwyn Crawshaw and Anne Blockley.

Studying under so many different artists has helped Barry create his own style of painting and tutoring. The workshops are exciting yet relaxed and light hearted with a sense of humour being a key part in the groups who have worked with Barry so far here at the Silver Thimble.

We run two regular workshops aimed at different levels of experience. (If you are a complete beginner, we will offer you a place on a 'Level 1' workshop initially, which will provide you with individual attention from the tutor as class sizes are kept to a minimum).

The regular workshops include various aspects of water colour painting and will depend on your experience, examples of learning include

• The various materials required for watercolour painting and the options open to you.
• Practicing the use of different types of papers and brushes with three primary paint colours
• Practicing the mixing of the three primary colours to create secondary colours and more
• Completing a colour wheel
• Practicing  different painting techniques including Glazing, Wash, Wet into Wet, Wet into Dry etc
• Practicing various brush techniques including Single(chisel end), Thick to thin and faint, Crumbling, Painting up to shapes etc
• Practicing painting Skies, Mountains, Lakes, Still Water, Moving Water, Trees, People, Sheep and more
• Practicing sketching, perspective and how to compose a picture

Subjects covered include, still life, landscape including from your own sketches and weather permitting, outside sketching and painting.

The classes are held on Tuesdays

Full day 10 – 4 p.m.

£15.00

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