Pencil Paint Pixie

After trying out watercolour in a workshop, I knew I wanted more! I found a 6 week watercolour course for beginners and signed up immediately.  Week 1-  We started off with understanding our paints, and creating this handy guide for mixing the cools and warms of the primaries. I referenced this constantly throughout the course. Week 2- Our tutor walked us through how to paint the egg and leaf. I'm so proud of the egg I could eat it. It was fun to jump right into painting. Week 3- Experimenting with what watercolour can do, wet on wet, wet on dry, adding things to manipulate the texture like salt or isopropyl alcohol etc. By the end of the class we all had a bunch of little experiments that we turned into a handy reference book. Watercolour has so much potential! Week 4-  Exploring simple layering to create abstract landscapes. This was really nice, so simple but so effective! I now have many little greeting cards...

This workshop really piqued my interest so I had to attend. It was 4 days of learning expressive techniques to produce beautiful watercolour and ink drawings of Australian native flowers. As of doing this workshop in April, I was really new to watercolour and this was a perfect way to dip my toes (and brush) in. I missed the first day so we'll start from day 2. We were shown demonstrations and tasked to create some single line contour drawings from images of native flowers. The image above is one of my favourites from the whole workshop. Drawn with sharpie then I added watercolour, with instructions to not paint in between the lines! Which created this lovely loose feel, much more visually interesting. This one was a contour drawing with my left hand, this is one of my least favourites but I think its more about the muddy colours. I like how it looks like the flowers are raining down. For the next few, we were given sticks to dip in the ink. The result is quite org...