Welcome to the Watershed Studio Website!At Watershed Studio we hold a wide variety of art workshops throughout the year. We are very lucky to have such a great team of tutors who teach here and we try to cover most media. We specialise on single and two day courses, priding ourselves on good quality, professional but affordable painting breaks. Click on About Us to find out more about what is going on at the Watershed and who is involved. Further information can be found under Courses and Tutors. I have added a small gallery of tutors work too to help you get more an idea of the style of individual tutors. All website addresses are listed for those tutors that have them, so you can log on and see more of their work. I also do all the bookings for the Thames Sailing Barge, The Edme. Click here for more details. Summer and Autumn CoursesA few spaces available on the courses listed below. August
September
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| 4th & 5th | Graham Timmins Fast and Loose Pastel Landscapes | £115 |
| 7th & 8th | Sylvia Paul Acrylic Collage – City/Town Scapes | £115 |
| Sat 11th | Bryan Thatcher Wet into Wet Watercolour Landscapes | £60 |
| Sun 12th | Lavinia Hamer Conkers and Chestnuts – Wet into Wet WC | £55 |
| Mon 13th | No Tutor Informal Life Drawing Day | £20 |
| 14th & 15th | Keith Morton Portraiture Workshop in Oils or Acrylics | £125 |
| 21st & 22nd | Andrew Pitt The Plain Guide to Oils | £115 |
| 25th & 26th | Ian King Pens, Washes and Watercolour Landscapes | £115 |
November
| Tues 11th | Sylvia Paul Impasto Oil Marine Landscapes | £60 |
| Wed 12th | Sylvia Paul Impasto Oil Street Scenes | £60 |
| Mon 17th | No Tutor Informal Life Drawing Day | £20 |
| Wed 19th | Christine May Boats and Barges in Watercolour | £60 |
| 23rd & 24th | Charles Evans Getting to Grips with Watercolours | £115 |
| Sat 29th | Keith Morton How to Paint Portraits in Oils – beginners | £60 |
Barry Herniman
Exciting Sketchbooks – Watercolour and watercolour pencils
Tuesday 12th & Wed 13th August 2008 - £115 including lunches etc
An exciting course with this popular tutor - a flexible and FUN two days using watercolour and watercolour pencils and even, I should imagine, some line work! Barry is very much a ‘no fuss’ painter and weather permitting we might even get outside the studio for a while to paint.
John Shave
Impressionist Coastal Scenes in Oils
Saturday 13th & Sunday14th September 2008 - £115 including lunches etc
John, a member of the Wapping Group of painters, is a very popular tutor in East Anglia and we are fortunate that he has been able to take a break from painting to fit one course in with us this year. This course is designed to help you interpret boats and estuaries in an impressionist way. Regular demonstrations will show you how to apply and blend the paint and mix colour, with ideas on how to hold and use the brush to interpret nature. Through discussions and demonstrations you will develop your own approach to painting skies and water, distance and landscape at various times of the day, as well as how to paint sunlight and shadow. There will be plenty of help and one to one tuition throughout the two days.
Sue Williams
Trees, Skies and Water in Watercolour
Tuesday 16th & Wednesday 17th September 2008 - £115 including lunches etc
Capture the glorious colours and subtle harmonies of our landscape in this intensive two day course. Sue will cover lots of different techniques for painting water, trees and skies. After a studio demonstrations at the start of each day, students will have the opportunity to paint either in the studio, or in the fields and garden around the studio. Sue will also bring a large number of inspiring photographs. This is obviously weather dependent. There will be plenty of ongoing one to one tuition from Sue.
Charles Evans
Oil (Watersoluble Artesan Oils) or Acrylic Painting for the Nervous
Saturday 20th & Sun 21st September 2008 - £115 including lunches, etc
Many students are asking us to provide more acrylic courses so as a slight change to the advertised programme students will now be able to opt to use acrylics instead of oils on Charles course in September. The watersoluble Artesan oils that Charles uses are very similar to acrylics so this mixture of media will pose no problems and allow you to use whichever medium you feel most comfortable with. You will have a very enjoyable and lively two days exploring the used of these versatile media in fun and creative environment.
Tim Fisher
Sketching and Painting with Water Colour Pencils
Tuesday 23rd & Wednesday 24th September 2008 - £115 including lunches etc
Techniques that work! Enjoy 2 days in this wonderful location exploring Tim’s unique approach to using watercolour pencils as a sketching medium and also as a means of producing finished paintings - learn techniques that are special to this medium.
Tim is well known as a regular Demonstrator for Derwent pencils and regularly writes about this subject in the Leisure Painter magazine. He is seen as an expert in this field of painting, often combining watercolour pencils with ink work.
Watercolour pencils offer a clean and convenient way of working and controlling watercolour. Let Tim show you how to get the most out of solid watercolour pencils and Derwent Inktense.
James Horsler
Watercolours for Absolute Beginners
Tues 30th September - £55 including lunches
If you have not yet tried watercolour or had a go, and got in a mess, then this is the course for you. It is a beautiful medium to paint with and relies on simplicity and a confident painting style. It is a bit quirky and without the proper understanding one can easily get in a mess as many people know to their cost! James will explain and demonstrate all the basic principles and give you a thorough grounding in how to succeed with watercolour. You need never get cauliflowers in your skies again!!
With all James’ courses this year, aimed at the beginner or people who wish a bit of knowledge of the basic principles, all materials are supplied. All you need is yourself, old clothes!
Spaces still available on courses in October and November – click here for more dates and details.
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