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

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.

Booking your place and fee information

Booking your place and fee information If you are in receipt of 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 webpage for further information https www.inspireculture.org.uk skills learning funding your courses Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course. To enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years. Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required). As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas: 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