Explore different techniques, mediums, and art styles for depicting a range of nature subjects (both flora and fauna) with botanical scientific illustrator and nature artist, Molly Gill. Molly works in most 2-D mediums, including watercolour, pen and ink, colour pencil, graphite, and scratchboard. Students of all levels of art experience are welcome.

6 x weeks every Wednesday 2 February 2022 – 9 March 2022

10:30am-12:30pm

$150 pp

A materials list will be sent out prior to course commencing.

Class description:

The focus of this class is drawing and painting botanical subjects in watercolour. You will learn about:

• Plant identification, structure, and parts
• Composition
• Materials and aids to drawing/painting
• Colour theory, colour-matching, mixing colours
• Fundamentals of drawing and watercolour painting
• Special techniques for creating special effects in watercolour (e.g. textures)

Materials: For best results, please bring the following to class:

Hot Press (smooth) watercolour paper. I recommend an A2 sheet of Arches brand. You can cut it into smaller size sheets. Pads of Arches are ideal, but pricey. I am not a fan of Fabriano paper, but other HP papers are fine.

Brushes. I recommend a range of decent quality brush sizes, from fine (for detail) to medium (for washes) and larger (if you are planning to add background or work big). Either animal hair (e.g. sable) or synthetic

Tracing paper. It is handy to have a pad of tracing paper for transferring sketches and working out composition

Paints. Please come with good quality, known brand watercolour paints (e.g. Winsor Newton, Cotmans, Daniel Smith, Schminke, Art Spectrum, etc.) and the following limited palette colours available in half pan:

• Yellows: Winsor Yellow or Lemon Yellow (cool yellow) and warm yellow, e.g. Cadmium Yellow
• Reds: Permanent Rose (primary magenta), warm red (e.g. Scarlet Lake or Cadmium Red) and cool red (Alizarin Crimson
• Blues: Cobalt (near primary), Ultramarine (warm blue), and Cerulean (cool blue)

Alternatively, a basic set of 12 or so paints is fine, but it would be nice if you could fill in the gaps to make sure you have most of the colours listed above.

Please note you do not have to have ALL materials for week ONE, we can supply basic materials to get you started.

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• Mandatory wearing of masks indoors (anyone over the age of 12), unless exempt for medical reasons
• Observe safe physical distancing, hand washing and sanitising practices.

Please do NOT attend this event if you feel unwell, or experiencing COVID-like symptoms. Council reserves the right to cancel the event if deemed unsafe.