Creative Watercolour: Flow, Light, Layers - 2 Day Workshop 2026.

Dive deep into negative painting with watercolour. Carve form from light and shadow, explore value structure, and bring depth to still life

'Creative Watercolour: Flow, Light, Layers' with Diane Goodman is a two-day (March 18th & 19th 2026) workshop held in the beautiful country village of Murringo, NSW. A 2026 Hilltops Off the Beaten Track Art & Cultural Trail event, this workshop is also in partnership with the Murringo Barracks Gallery. It is the second in a series of 2 x two-day watercolour workshops.

Workshop Details

This immersive workshop takes your watercolour practice into the world of negative painting. Over two focused days, you will:

🎨 develop techniques to help you determine the tonal value and consistency of watercolour washes.

🌿 explore ways to create a variety of edge types to add depth and interest to your paintings.

🌈 plan your colour palette and wash consistency prior to starting to paint.

🌾 learn how to build form through tonal value and transparency, carving shapes from the spaces around colourful, textured, loose underpaintings.

🖼 learn about timing, glazing, and multi-pass negative painting to create depth and sculptural dimension, culminating in a layered still life project on Day 2.

This workshop is ideal for painters with some prior experience who want to elevate their control, refine their technique, and explore a more sophisticated, atmospheric approach to watercolour. For those with limited experience, it is an ideal workshop to undertake following Workshop 1 ('Watercolour Foundations: from Washes to Expression' on 16th & 17th March 2026) in this series - also available via Eventbrite.

Your teacher

Diane Goodman is a Visual Arts teacher with over 30 years of experience teaching drawing, painting, design and photo media to adults and teenagers, at university, secondary schools and in community groups and classes. Diane’s teaching style caters for individual differences and prior knowledge, to ensure you learn in a personalised and caring learning environment.

Some basic materials can be supplied for this workshop on request, however, you are encouraged to bring your own watercolour kit or materials. For a materials list, please email Diane at digoodman@me.com

Morning tea will be provided. Please bring your own mug, water bottle and lunch.

Conditions & Refund Policy

This workshop is suitable for persons aged 18 years and over.

Tickets are fully refundable if cancelled up until and including Friday 27th February.

Please note that cancellations following Friday 27th February will not be refunded. You are welcome to transfer your booking to another participant. If that happens, please supply me with the name of the replacing participant. In the unlikely event that I need to cancel the class, a full refund will be offered.

Diane's online info

Instagram: digoodman_fine_art

Facebook: Diane Goodman Fine Art & Photography

Email enquiries: digoodman@me.com

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Some student feedback from a recent similar workshop:

"Fabulous teacher, supportive and knowledgeable. Generous sharing what she knows" Jo

"Thanks Di, I have gained confidence with technique, colours and much more confident layering and knowing what to paint first" Catherine

"I learnt to free up a lot and quite a few new techniques... and got to practice skills and techniques... be experimental" Louise

"What was good? Teacher guidance and expertise, peer support and encouragement, learning new creative things" Anonymous

Past student paintings from several different workshops but similar in terms of the range of participant abilities and experience this workshop caters for: see below