| Coming up in September 2016 we are going to paint the stunning architectural forms of strelitzia.  |  |
These are such fun forms and brilliant colours that just sing when placed together. This workshop will expand your ideas about design, composition, balance and colour. We will also push our water colour techniques to the maximum.
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I am so excited to show you how to paint these dazzling forms
This is what you will need to bring:
Paper
No small pieces of water colour paper - these beauties demand a large sheet of paper A3 or bigger. The best paper you can afford - nothing less than 300 grams
Colours:
Yellows and oranges in all their splendour - lemon yellow, cadmium yellow, cadmium orange, cadmium red
Blues like cerulean blue, cobalt blue, ultramarine blue, prussian blue
Greens like veridian green, sap green, hookers green
Purple - dioxazine purple
Most important - bring your brave and daring self, leave the meek and mild self at home doing the dishes and cleaning the windows.
Dates:
Mondays 9:15 to 12:30
5th, 12th, 19th and 26th September 2016
4 fab sessions R600 - what a bargain!
Paper
No small pieces of water colour paper - these beauties demand a large sheet of paper A3 or bigger. The best paper you can afford - nothing less than 300 grams
Colours:
Yellows and oranges in all their splendour - lemon yellow, cadmium yellow, cadmium orange, cadmium red
Blues like cerulean blue, cobalt blue, ultramarine blue, prussian blue
Greens like veridian green, sap green, hookers green
Purple - dioxazine purple
Most important - bring your brave and daring self, leave the meek and mild self at home doing the dishes and cleaning the windows.
Dates:
Mondays 9:15 to 12:30
5th, 12th, 19th and 26th September 2016
4 fab sessions R600 - what a bargain!
Look at how we have been playing with our strelitzia paintings
Day One
  Kathy Nichols giving Shambles some attention |  Megan Stobart doing a beautiful drawing |
We started off just getting the feel of the shapes and did "don't look down" sketches - which were actually really accurate and stunning.
 Pat Douglas doing a lovely fresh drawing being mindful of the glorious lines and shapes |  Experimenting with a fun technique as an outline |
Day Two
Getting to work with our water colours ...
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Trish Heslop's beautiful painting being carefully painted and then OhLaLa! Madness hit it and fun with pouring and plastic wrap technique. Longing to see how this is going to work out.
 Such a great beginning Megan! |  Rosemary Codron hard at work - lots of concentrating |
A beginning from Kathy Nichols
Kathy brought her friend from the UK and Kiloran Rider did this fabulous expressive painting. Lovely!
Let it FLOW - it's the only way to go |
Kathy just stepped in and began to paint like a star
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Kiloran capturing the essence of the strelitzias
Kathy, Rosemary, Kiloran, Megan and Trish
More to come ....
Day 3 & 4 and look what was created - Brilliant work
Kathy Nichols - not yet finished but so amazing already.
Trish Heslop created this very unique effect with careful work in the negative shapes - I just love it!
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Megan Stobart - just amazing!
Rosemary Codron - what a brilliant effect and design!
The painting below was interesting because the paper had a poor finish around the edges and it seemed to suggest a frame which was loosely placed into the painting. It is always fun to mix up the positive and negative in a painting and this one shows this idea. |
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