Postcard Painting - Warsop Health Hub - Adult Learning

This course is ideal for beginners who want to try painting with watercolours and will cover 4 watercolour techniques, which are wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, various washes and dry brush strokes.

Over 4 weeks you will experiment with simple skies, landscapes and seascapes, then creating flowers with brush strokes, finally using light and shade in painting still life subjects.

Week 1 – Demonstrate four practice techniques with flat or round brushes

Week 2 – Follow a tutorial to create a simple seascape, using four techniques

Week 3 – Make a range of petal shapes using fine and thicker round brushes

Week 4 – Interpret a still life project in watercolour

You will need postcards and a small watercolour set.

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 

• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

• Greater London

• Greater Manchester

• Liverpool City Region

• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland

• Tees Valley

• West of England

• West Midlands

• West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

• Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office

• You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.