LEVEL 1 ONLINE WORKSHOP
Gratitude Platter: Kick-start Your Creativity
Develop your creative voice & illustrate your words £5
£5
About This Workshop
This workshop will help you to address the challenging question of “where do I start?” It will suggest methods to organise your creative ideas and add an extra dimension to your sketchbook or journal. Caroline will discuss gathering reference materials as a way to bypass creative block.
Visual research is a great way to get motivated and get started, and this workshop will encourage you to fill up your sketchbook or journal with heartfelt ideas. The journey is as important as the destination on your creative path.
You will be working towards a final gratitude platter artwork and learning useful techniques along the way, such as transferring an image onto watercolour paper, the value of a limited colour palette, and combining poetry with art.
You will be using inspirational moodboards, provided in the handouts, to inspire your creative idea, and you may choose to create your own collection of inspiration that is personal to you. Either way, we will be looking to other creative fields to magpie mark-making and decorative ideas that you can bring to your own creative practice.
If you don’t know how to get going or are feeling frozen, this cousre can help. You will create a useful resource that you can reach into time and time again, to help to develop your own creative voice, inspired by what you find in the world around you.
Caroline’s chosen to paint her house, and you can follow along, include your own house or anything that you feel grateful for. You will learn to think like a designer and artist, and to avoid waiting for inspiration to hit.
FAQs
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Caroline will demonstrate a range of methods of gathering visual research in your journal or sketchbook in the video, as well as how to select these elements and compose them into a final gratitude platter watercolour artwork.
Techniques include wet on wet, lifting, colour mixing and image transfer.
There are lots of resources for you to work with provided in the handouts. You can either create your own original starting points and drawings, or side step the whole drawing process and use Craoline’s templates.
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Your tutor will be Caroline Tatham, a qualified lecturer who has a lifetime of experience teaching creativity.
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Not at all. We specialise in supporting and encouraging those with no previous experience. You just need a ‘can do’ attitude!
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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.
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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.
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You will gain a greater understanding of some of the tried and tested techniques of watercolour painting.
You will also create a beautiful, whimsical, great tit portrait artwork.
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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 archived resources, such as weekly botanical art prompt sheets, designed to inspire your artwork (#CreativeSpaceNatureSpark). As well as reference photos, reference images, sketches and equipment lists, from our archived Fun-Sized Art School FREE art initiative.
There is also the chance to win prizes in the group challenges.
Please see the button below.
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This workshop is suitable for all levels of art experience, but is particularly aimed at beginners.
Whether you are new to watercolour painting or are more experienced and just want to hone your skills, this workshop will get you going!.
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This is an instant access workshop.
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The workshop cost is £5.
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You can complete this workshop at your own pace. The workshop video and handouts are available for you to download for up to three weeks from the date of purchase. Once downloaded, you will have the workshop forever!
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The pre-recorded video is 22 minutes long.
The video tutorial is fully downloadable and accompanied by in-depth handouts.
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.
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