Through out the day there will be demos and lots of one-to-one guidance and encouragement to help you progress your painting to a finished pleasing piece of art and develop your watercolour skills on route.

You can transfer the tips, tricks and knowledge Nicky offers about techniques and materials to other watercolour subject matter, not just poppy seed heads.

Pencil and eraser
Watercolour paint (Any brand but try to avoid academy or student quality)
Palette
Watercolour Brushes (round medium and large sizes, natural mop style squirrels are great and preferable to synthetic but not essential as I have some to loan)
Waterpot x 2
Kitchen Roll
Watercolour Paper rough or not texture minimum 300gsm watercolour paper, mnimum ½ imperial size preferably (certainly bigger than A3 or ¼ imperial) as I’m aiming to help you work larger than usual. It will need to stretched on a board. A couple of practice pieces also needed.
I will have some 425 gram watercolour paper available to purchase if you need additional.

Paper – 1/2 imperial sheets 425gsm paper can be purchased £2.50 per sheet
Practice/exercise paper – 3 sheets £1 – 250 gsm

Nicky will have spare brushes, waterpots, palates, drawing boards, and pencils that students can use during the course that can be cleaned and sanitised without sharing and intermingling if required.  Please let us know in advance if you think you may need these so that we can be prepared.

Nicky Hunter

Nicky’s passion and skill for painting and illustrating flowers began with a diploma in art and design and a degree in textile design and blossomed over two decades designing embroidered and printed textiles working for well known British brands and selling internationally to global brands and fashion houses.  Through further fine art training and her love of painting with the challenging yet magical medium of watercolour her artworks bloomed into bold yet beautiful florals alive with radiant colour and light. Though her first love is florals, many more subject matters are explored, she is inspired by nature and ignited by colour.   Her career has developed into a full time professional artist and watercolour tutor teaching in Buckinghamshire at her studio in Westbury Arts Centre; also hosted nationally as a guest tutor at prestigious art schools and enjoys being hosted to demo watercolour at art societies nationally. She is passionate about supporting others on their creative journeys and improving their technical skill and artistic flair painting in watercolours too.  A selection of majestic snowy mountain scenes were selected  and exhibited in 2022 at The Gallery Holt (Norfolk) for the ‘Harmonies’ exhibition, showcasing artwork by some of the finest  artists in the UK, many accredited  RI, RSMA, RA .

www.nickyhunterart.com