Watercolour Painting for Beginners - Next Steps - Edwinstowe Library - Adult Learning

Edwinstowe Library, Edwinstowe

Date	11 November - 9 December 2025
Sessions	Tuesdays: 10am - 12pm
No. sessions	5
Venue	Edwinstowe Library, Edwinstowe View venue details
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 10
Cost	FREE - £40

About this course

This course is designed to lead on from the Watercolour for Beginner’s Course. Learners will build upon the foundational skills learnt on the first course to extend knowledge and techniques.

In this course, learners will build upon their existing knowledge of essential materials such as brushes, paints, and paper, gaining a deeper understanding of how each element interacts to produce various effects. Participants will enhance their skills in various watercolour techniques and compositional elements.

By the end of the course, learners will have refined their skills and techniques and gained greater confidence in painting. This course is suitable for beginners who have attended the Watercolour for Beginners course and have some basic knowledge of watercolour painting. It is designed to help improvers refresh and further develop their skills. Each session will include demonstrations, hands-on practice, and constructive feedback to support your progression.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

- Demonstrate advanced watercolour techniques, including refined washes, glazes, wax resist, masking fluid, and ink pen applications, in completed artworks.

- Create detailed paintings of clouds, night skies, and sunsets using appropriate colour blending and brush techniques.

- Compose mini landscape scenes integrating elements such as trees, mountains, hills, and water, with attention to spatial relationships and composition principles.

- Depict a variety of trees, flowers and foliage types, showing differences in texture, colour, and structure using appropriate watercolour techniques.

- Produce detailed flower studies utilizing wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, and other methods to capture textures, patterns, and colour variation accurately.

What you will need to bring to the course:

a pencil

a putty rubber

a selection of different paintbrushes – flat brushes & round tipped brushes in different sizes.

A4 sized watercolour paper 140lbs/300gsm watercolour paints – such as Windsor & Newton, Cotman, Derwent

Masking fluid

a palette with wells

wet wipes

paper towel

masking tape, washi tape or scotch tape

Booking your place and fee information

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