LEVEL 2 ONLINE COURSE

Contemporary Watercolours: Common Linnet

A playful journey to a creative destination ‍ ‍£15

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Fast-Tracked Creative Process

During this one-week course, you’ll learn the same artistic process that Caroline uses in her professional practice.

From creating a colour palette to painting your finished piece, you’ll undergo an exciting creative journey.

Have fun getting up close and personal with a beautiful linnet bird artwork via pre-recorded videos packed with useful information, plus high-quality handouts.

What’s Included?

Learn fundamental watercolour techniques and gain the confidence to paint with or without a pencil guide.

Play with stylised floral drawings and find your own unique creative voice.

Find out how to source copyright-free reference images and how you can use such images in your composition.

Prevent creative overwhelm by following my easy step-by-step process.

Each day’s lesson will build and prepare you for the final project on day 5.

All course content is fully downloadable.

What Will I learn?

Learn successful colour mixing and explore how to keep artwork focused and polished.

Find and develop your own creative voice, applying your newfound artistic style to future creative projects.

Discover how to make lots of decisions about colour choices, style of painting, and overall composition before the final painting stage. Being prepared will result in a more pleasurable painting experience while also producing more effective, reliable and consistent artwork outcomes.

About Your Tutor

Caroline Tatham is a passionate artist who loves helping people to discover their own innate creativity.

She studied at the Royal College of Art and has taught at a range of colleges and art schools, including Central Saint Martins School of Art in London.

Caroline is a qualified lecturer and has loved running the Cotswold Gardening School since 2010. She specialises in teaching creative design to a professional standard for those with no previous experience, helping them achieve results they never imagined possible. She is proud to have 30+ years of teaching experience under her belt.

FAQs

This course includes a series of instructional videos that .take you through a range of projects. Each project will get your creativity flowing while you explore exciting activities to fill your sketchbook with ideas.
You will then bring all of your creative play and exploration together in an outcome that is unique to your own creativity.
If you prefer you can simply jump ahead to the final project and follow my composition to create the naive nostalgic linnet that you see here.
Day 1
You will discover how an image that you love and be harnessed to create a beautiful colour palette. You will also learn about mixing watercolour paints and some basic watercolour techniques.
Day 2
We will take a look at drawing original plant shapes from photographic references, and how these forms can be stylised to add a unique and recognisable signature to your artwork.
Day 3
We will build a palette of observed textures as well as discovering a range of painting techniques.
Day 4
Now we will build our composition using copyright free reference images. We will also see how to transfer a sketch from its source onto your watercolour paper.
Day 5
Our final project will be the creation of our naïve nostalgic linnet. This will bring together everything that we have discovered in the earlier projects.
You will create a finished artwork, but learn lots of fun techniques along the way if you choose to undertake all of the projects.
Caroline has included helpful handouts with an equipment list, and .sketches ready for you to get started.
Your tutor will be Caroline Tatham, a qualified lecturer who has a lifetime of experience teaching creativity.
Not at all. We specialise in supporting and encouraging those with no previous experience. You just need a ‘can do’ attitude!
There is a full equipment list on our web page and also in the handouts.
Feel free to use your own colour combinations if you prefer, it’s all about play and exploration.
Quality paints are expensive but also have more pigmentation. This will enhance the techniques in this workshop making them more evident.
Quality paper will also produce a better result. 100% cotton paper will give the best results.
It is, of course, fine to start with cheaper materials and invest in more expensive ones as your experience and interest in this wonderful medium grows.
Just be kind to yourself if some of your results are a little more subtle with cheaper materials.
Do not worry! We are all creative and Caroline specialises in connecting people to their inner creative voice.
You just need to be willing to give it a go. Absolute beginners are most welcome.
You will gain a greater understanding of the tried and tested techniques of watercolour painting.
You will also develop an understanding of playful sketchbook exploration and how to find your own creative voice.
Finally, you will create a beautiful feather artwork.
Yes! You are very welcome to join our free online community ‘Creative Space’ where we offer encouragement and feedback to posting members.
In this free group, there is a bank of free art resources, such as past weekly botanical art prompt sheets, designed to inspire your artwork (#CreativeSpaceNatureSpark). As well as reference photos, reference images, sketches and equipment lists.
There is also the chance to win prizes in the group challenges.
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This course is suitable for all levels of art experience, but is particularly aimed at intermediate creators.
Whether you are new to watercolour painting or are more experienced and just want to develop skills, this course will get you going!
If you are feeling creatively stuck, this course will set you off on a new artistic tangent.
This is an instant access course.
This course costs £15.
You can complete this course at your own pace. The course videos and handouts are available for you to download for up to five weeks from the date of purchase. Once downloaded, you will have the course forever!