Watercolour Foundations: from Washes to Expression - 2 Day Workshop 2026

Build strong, expressive watercolour foundations in this two-day workshop exploring luminous washes, edges, glazing and colour strategies.

Watercolour Foundations: from Washes to Expression with Diane Goodman is a two-day (March 16th & 17th 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.

Workshop Details

This is an immersive workshop designed to build and strengthen your technical skills while allowing space for artistic individuality. Through structured demonstrations and guided exercises, you will:

🎨 explore the essential elements of watercolour: washes, edges, flow control, transparency and colour mixing and combinations.

🌿 learn how to build expressive backgrounds and integrate crisp, meaningful foreground subjects.

🌈 create artwork that feels both loose and intentional.

🌾 paint and play in guided lead-up activities where you learn in a supportive learning environment.

🌈 apply what you have learnt in a creative project on the second day that balances loose, expressive backgrounds with considered foreground details.

Watercolour Foundations: from Washes to Expression is a hands-on workshop perfect for those starting out and for the more experienced who want to deepen confidence and creative voice. This is your chance to grow your skills, find your flow, and develop your unique artistic voice.

Limited spots – bookings essential!

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