Watercolour Flowers

Enjoy a fun morning workshop looking at flowers and learning about watercolour techniques.

The workshop will start with a focus on freeing up your mark making and having fun with line and colour. We will start with some loosened techniques and playing with colour using soft pencils and cartridge paper. Then looking at your colour palette, swatches from each pan of colour. Some simple colour mixes and wet on wet techniques which will be used when you make your drawings.

Then move on to your page for the day using watercolour paper and using the techniques you have practised. You should take home a collection of drawings, an understanding of basic watercolours and your own watercolour painting of flowers.

The tutor is Jennie Hale, Jennie is a Cornwall based Artist and Potter with work in national and private collections throughout the world. She lives and works by Colliford Lake on Bodmin Moor. It is here where she finds many of the wild creatures that inspire her work.

Born on the west coast of Scotland, she spent her early years until she was 12 exploring the islands and hills with her father, by boat and foot until her family then settled in Devon outside of Dartmouth where she continued to go fishing with her father and exploring the valleys alone.

The love of wild places has never left Jennie, and she now explores on foot and in her sea Kayak. Her work is a direct reflection of her encounters in wildlife.

Each day Jennie walks and makes drawings of the items that interest her may it be, bugs or the ripples in the river that she lives besides. These drawings are compiled into her nature diaries and watercolour journals, which Jennie has been compiling for over 30 years. In 2007 the nature diary of an artist was published by A&C Black, which is a year of notes and drawings from her nature diaries.