10am – 4pm
£85 Lunch included
Material Charges : Please bring your own materials - see below. .

Painting a Looser Botanical for Christmas ... in Watercolour with Lyn Evans

  Lyn will teach you how to employ loose watercolour techniques, allowing the pigment and water combination to work their own magic without too much interference being necessary.  You could also include other tools, such as pens, inktence pencils, watercolour pencils, salt and twigs, to be used along side your paints, to obtain the beautiful effects from the watercolours. 

Although Lyn usually likes to paint her watercolours from life, (and you are welcome to bring specimens if freely available)  we will be using references photos for this course as well. During the morning,  Lyn will teach, step by step, the techniques she employs and builds on for different effects - and although some basic experience of watercolours is preferred, it is by no means essential, especially as the painting style is relaxed and loose. Students will need to provide their own materials as outlined below.

The iconic shapes of winter's Christmas foliage and flowers ...  holly, ivy, berries, snowdrops, hellebores and pointsettia - along with their festive colours, make lovely subjects for this festive workshop.  Your pieces could later be 'reproduced' (at the local print shop) and used along with 'blank card/ envelope sets' (widely available online)  to make some really special hand painted Christmas cards this year.

At the end of the day everyone should have at least one lovely piece of work to take home.

Saturday 30 November 2024 

Typically this course runs with around 9 students. Suitable for all abilities including beginners, though materials are required..

Please bring - Watercolours, watercolour pencils and waterproof pens.  NOT watercolour paper (140lb or 200lb) it must be stiff, I use 200lb. Scissors, palette, ruler, hairdryer, photos of foliage ie ivy, holly, Christmas roses and others etc ... or the real thing- and maybe robins too! Maybe if you already have them, inktence sticks aswell.

 About the Artist  I have painted throughout most of my life, from my years at Sunderland Art College to the present day,  I’m inspired mostly by the more unusual colours of nature. The early morning or late evening light, particularly during the Autumn months, is a favourite. I paint in oil, pastel and watercolours, each one bringing a different quality to the work.  So often it is the subject that will dictate the medium used.  Pastel is unsurpassed for colour and texture while oils excel in quality and the ability to move or blend.

Watercolour, with its more delicate character, is ideal for the beautiful misty days that we have in plenty in Cumbria.I paint everything and anything but landscape is my first love.So the countryside in which I live and the quality of light enjoy are present in all my work. My influences are Chien Chung Wei, the Taiwanese watercolourist, Iain Stewart, the Scottish watercolourist  (both of whom I have painted with) and  Casey Klahn the American pastelist.