Watercolour painting classes at Pegasus Art and on zoom online
Painting Classes in person are held at Pegasus Art, Thrupp, Gloucestershire and I also offer online zoom classes.
Inspirational and fun watercolour painting classes.
Mondays and Thursdays 10am - 12pm
4 week course £80
Join anytime if space available.
Zoom classes are on Tuesdays 10 - 12. Please contact me for details.
My whole approach to teaching painting in watercolours is to keep it as simple as possible. It is only by this apparent and simplistic approach that confidence can be gained quickly in understanding how the medium works, but the main priority is to have fun, and we do have fun!
You would be surprised how little equipment you need for watercolours. In the studio at Pegasus, particularly during the winter months we work from photographs. In the summer we get out as much as is practical and comfortable having, of course, the most wonderful countryside on our doorstep. Visits in winter are made to churches (interiors) and in summer to private gardens and houses. We even had an exclusive visit to one of the Livery Halls in London to paint a block of salt.
I carry in one jacket pocket everything for creating an 'en plein air' watercolour and that includes 11” x 8” 200lb paper (I do carry a drawing board) mounted onto thick card, a folding no. 10 brush, F pencil, India rubber (just in case!) and a 5" x 3" metal paint box with 12 colours and two fold out mixing trays. The water is carried in a 35mm plastic film canister, quite enough for at least two pictures, oh yes and tissues for cleaning the brush, NOT for dabbing out clouds! That's it and your off!
Zoom Art Classes
Zoom classes are on Tuesdays from 10am - 12pm and you are welcome to join anytime, please get in touch.
My focus has always been on the basic principles of painting in watercolour, an almost by numbers approach, and then as confidence grows and an understanding of how the medium works, the student (any age!) can develop their own style and method of following the basics in their own way.
After the initial introduction I will give the hopefully inspired painters a chance to try out the techniques, eg “how to paint a sky, trees, rocks, houses”.
My real passion is painting “en plein air” and I will be constantly referring to that style of painting during my classes. There is nothing wrong with painting from photographs, as in this country it is hard to get outside, but there is nothing like sitting in a lovely place and recording the view in front of you.
At the end of the class I will ask you to send in your paintings and I will then constructively critique them. Everyone will then have a better chance of seeing each other's work and will hopefully benefit from my attached helpful hints or unrestrained praise!
If you would like to book onto a class please email me: richard@rtcwatercolours.co.uk.
Richard Callingham
Art supplies
Pegasus Art, Thrupp art supplies website is www.pegasusart.co.uk
Inspirational and fun watercolour painting classes.
Mondays and Thursdays 10am - 12pm
4 week course £80
Join anytime if space available.
Zoom classes are on Tuesdays 10 - 12. Please contact me for details.
My whole approach to teaching painting in watercolours is to keep it as simple as possible. It is only by this apparent and simplistic approach that confidence can be gained quickly in understanding how the medium works, but the main priority is to have fun, and we do have fun!
You would be surprised how little equipment you need for watercolours. In the studio at Pegasus, particularly during the winter months we work from photographs. In the summer we get out as much as is practical and comfortable having, of course, the most wonderful countryside on our doorstep. Visits in winter are made to churches (interiors) and in summer to private gardens and houses. We even had an exclusive visit to one of the Livery Halls in London to paint a block of salt.
I carry in one jacket pocket everything for creating an 'en plein air' watercolour and that includes 11” x 8” 200lb paper (I do carry a drawing board) mounted onto thick card, a folding no. 10 brush, F pencil, India rubber (just in case!) and a 5" x 3" metal paint box with 12 colours and two fold out mixing trays. The water is carried in a 35mm plastic film canister, quite enough for at least two pictures, oh yes and tissues for cleaning the brush, NOT for dabbing out clouds! That's it and your off!
Zoom Art Classes
Zoom classes are on Tuesdays from 10am - 12pm and you are welcome to join anytime, please get in touch.
My focus has always been on the basic principles of painting in watercolour, an almost by numbers approach, and then as confidence grows and an understanding of how the medium works, the student (any age!) can develop their own style and method of following the basics in their own way.
After the initial introduction I will give the hopefully inspired painters a chance to try out the techniques, eg “how to paint a sky, trees, rocks, houses”.
My real passion is painting “en plein air” and I will be constantly referring to that style of painting during my classes. There is nothing wrong with painting from photographs, as in this country it is hard to get outside, but there is nothing like sitting in a lovely place and recording the view in front of you.
At the end of the class I will ask you to send in your paintings and I will then constructively critique them. Everyone will then have a better chance of seeing each other's work and will hopefully benefit from my attached helpful hints or unrestrained praise!
If you would like to book onto a class please email me: richard@rtcwatercolours.co.uk.
Richard Callingham
Art supplies
Pegasus Art, Thrupp art supplies website is www.pegasusart.co.uk
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