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9.30am - 5.00pm
Taking place in the first floor Swallow Barn - accessed by stairs
£295 home made lunch/ fresh coffee/ home baking etc included
Material Charges £ all paint/ paper/ brushes included in the course price.
'Barn Swallows and Highland Cows' - an immersive weekend of 'Fur & Feathers' expressive Watercolour Techniques with Sarah Stokes - all abilities.
We are delighted to welcome much acclaimed, professional watercolour artist Sarah Stokes, joining us for a fascinating May weekend of painting.
Students will cover a multitude of artistic and specifically watercolour skills which include “wet into wet”, colour mixing, timing, brush strokes, looseness of approach, and pigment control. Sarah will also teach you how to see and depict tone effectively, in both black and white, as well as in colour.
Firstly in the morning of day one, you will get to explore the importance of tone, as we draw a cross section of a highland cow’s face, capturing its soulful gaze. We will use charcoal concentrating on creating convincing fur, eyes and expression.
After a tasty home made lunch - hopefully in the garden - we will finish this characterful and lovable breed, before starting our main watercolour piece painting a pair of beautiful barn swallows perched on a branch. During the session you will learn how to simplify your palette down to just the 3 primary colours to create a myriad of hues and tones. This is an excellent opportunity to learn how to establish the first layer, “wet into wet” and then to build up the piece with a mixture of brush strokes and techniques
On our second day we will finish off and perfect the barn swallows. You will learn how to paint convincing feathers, to paint “white” breasts and to bring life and energy to a piece through energetic brush strokes.
I will also show you handy ways of correcting a piece if the wrong consistency or colour has been applied or if a piece has become “muddied”.
We will also discuss what makes a good reference photo and the best places to obtain them.
On this workshop, you will learn the following skills:
Better understand the role of shape, tone and brush strokes in creating texture to wildlife, whether it be a bird, a mammal or still life.
Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 May 2025
This is a collaborative workshop and Sarah will be taking all payments for this workshop. This means, Quirky Open Vouchers cannot be used on this particular course. Taking place in the first floor Swallow Barn - accessed by stairs only.
Please bring: This course is suitable for beginners and the more advanced. No experience is necessary and all materials will be provided. This enables Sarah to teach all students using the same materials and therefore techniques.
About the Artist Sarah is a published professional wildlife artist working from the beautiful Worcestershire countryside, in England. She has always had a love of nature and is constantly inspired by the birds and animals that live in the woodlands surrounding her Arley home and studio on the banks of the River Severn. She has a real love for teaching art and the joy that it brings to those using watercolour for the first time. As Resident Artist at the Arley Estates in Bewdley, Sarah holds regular classes and retreats at the Studios on the Estate.
** If you need to cancel your place on a workshop - If you tell us more than 8 weeks prior to the workshop date, you can transfer to another workshop, (subject to availability) upon payment of a 20% admin fee and any balance due. Alternatively, you may revert your booking to a credit that must be used within that calendar year. In both of the instances above, a 20% admin fee is applicable and must be paid with 48 hours of requesting the change, and Quirky Workshops must be notified of that payment as soon as possible. Both must take place before the 8 week period preceding your workshop date. If you wish to cancel with less than 8 weeks ’notice, your payment is non-refundable and non-transferable. However . . . If we manage to re-sell your place at any stage, we will issue a credit of 80% of your course fee, that can be used towards another workshop taking place within a calendar year. As always, the very best solution is to tell us as soon as possible, but also consider finding someone else to take your place. Just inform us of the name change and any dietary requirements before the day.
| Workshop Date | Registration Start Date | Individual Price | Available places | Book |
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| Sat 24th May 2025 9:30 am | Mon 4th November 2024 7:00 am | £295.00 | 3 | |
| Sun 25th May 2025 9:30 am | Mon 4th November 2024 7:00 am | -- |
