Create Bloomin' Wonderful Watercolours!
Tutor: Nicky Hunter Course Code: 3325-30
Summary
Watercolour is the perfect medium to paint flowers and blooms. Enjoy creating loose and expressive artworks of bold beautiful blooms. We will capture clear transparent colours, luminous whites and achieve diffused edges using wet into wet techniques.
Description
Please bring with you
Watercolour brushes
A medium and large round or mop style squirrel or sable
A small and medium pointed round brush - synthetic
Small detailer brush
Watercolour paper
We will be painting bold - larger scale animals so please bring A3 or larger size paper.
Rough or Not surface paper minimum 250 gsm/ 140 1b weight. is required to achieve effective results for loose watercolour style painting.
I use Saunders Waterford Rough or Not surface paper minimum 250 gsm/ 140 1b weight which is a good quality cotton rag paper , but any good quality brand such as Fabriano or Langton is fine. I also usually have (supply permitting) large sheets of Saunders watercolour paper to purchase for £4 per sheet.
Other items
Palette, drawing board, kitchen roll, pencil, rubber
Colour Selection
For this painting you will need the same or similar to the colours below, but please bring additional if you wish to experiment with more colours -
Raw Sienna (warm)
Ultramarine blue (warm)
Burnt Umber (warm)
Bright yellow such as windsor yellow, lemon or gamboge
Dioxine Violet
Permanent rose or quinacrode rose
A red such as Windsor Red, Pyrolle Red or other similar primary red
I favour transparent colours such as above rather than Cadmium colours which are opaque.
The following items can be purchased from your tutor
Tutor sometimes has spare sheets of paper £4.
Level
Intermediate
Course Location
Missenden Abbey
Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire HP16 0BD
Tutor
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 .
Thursday to Friday
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Timetable
| Thursday | |
| 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 |
| Friday | |
| 7-9.00am | Breakfast for residents |
| 9.30am | Teaching session |
| 12.45-1.45 | Lunch for all |
| 1.45-5pm | Last teaching session |
Nikki was an excellent tutor and highly skilled. We covered a lot of ground in a dynamic way. (Summer School 2023)
Nicky Hunter is a very gifted teacher. Our whole group thoroughly enjoyed her demonstrations and were inspired by her artwork. I look forward to next year!
" Nicky - warm, friendly, generous and she gave great individual and group advice on techniques and how to assess and correct a painting." (Summer School 2022)