SMALL DYNAMIC WATERCOLOURS with a hint of ink......... Course Full
Tutor: Jackie Devereux Course Code: 3225-03
Summary
Take a leap into brilliant watercolour painting, making small creative contemporary images whilst discovering the beauty of transparent pigments. Revel in the beauty of the medium and colour whilst discovering your inner creative self through experimenting with shape and composition, developing brush skills and dis overinflated how to be positive about negative space!
Description
.........We shall look at applying the above through a variety of genres, and how a minimalistic approach can speak volumes........
Please bring with you
Watercolour tubes are best for this course, but bring what you have. (Contact Tutor for more information if needs be)
Plastic palette
Magic sponge
Water spritzer
Permanent BLACK INDIAN INK
Permanent Fine Liner pen(s)
Dip pen holder & nib(s)
Brushes……… Filbert; medium Squirrel Mop; Medium Flat
Two water (jam) jars
Kitchen roll
(This is not intended as a shopping list but as a guide – bring what you have and experiment also with some of my brushes. The attached image gives an illustration of what you might like to bring.)
Level
Suitable for all levels
Course Location
Missenden Abbey
Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire HP16 0BD
Tutor
Jackie Devereux
Jackie is a full time professional artist as well as qualified and very experienced adult tutor, whose unique work is greatly influenced by Japanese art as well as the light of southern France which was her home for over twenty years. Jackie’s award winning work ranges from pure large contemporary works on paper, to delicate pencil, to expressive pen & ink and mixed media - all experimental in nature. She has travelled the world, always with the intention of capturing people and places as she goes. As drawing is an integral part of her work, Jackie enjoys working with groups and sharing her ideas and techniques, encouraging others to develop their own potential. Jackie’s work is well published and collected internationally. She has been a regular contributor to The Artist Magazine, has exhibited widely throughout the UK and France, as well as in the USA and Japan. She has shown with the RWS, RI and with the Society of Graphic Fine Art, variously in Menier Gallery, Southwark; in Mayfair, Bankside and The Mall Galleries in London, and was elected and served as President of the SGFA for five years. Her work is shown in Mandells Gallery, Norwich; The Gallery at Waterperry House, Oxford, and often in Babylon Gallery, Ely and Gallery Holt, Holt, Norfolk.
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Monday to Wednesday
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Timetable
| Monday | |
| 9.15am | Students arrive (coffee available) |
| 9.30am | Teaching session |
| 12.45-1.45 | Lunch for all |
| 1.45-5pm | Teaching session |
| 6.45 for 7pm | Dinner for residents |
| Tuesday | |
| 7-9.00am | Breakfast for residents |
| 9.30am | Teaching session |
| 12.45-1.45 | Lunch for all |
| 1.45-5pm | Teaching session |
| 6.45 for 7pm | Dinner for residents |
| Wednesday | |
| 7-9.00am | Breakfast for residents |
| 9.30am | Teaching session |
| 12.45-1.45 | Lunch for all |
| 1.45-5pm | Last teaching session |
"The course opened my mind to other ways of working with ink and watercolour. The course was a success and Jackie was very supportive." (November 2019)
"Excellent as always." (March 2019)
Excellent course and tutor. Thoroughly enjoyed all the activities and projects. All levels of ability were catered for and I definitely will be back. (Summer School 2023)