I’m SO excited to present my newest and most anticipated class:

Watercolour Wildlife

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Unleash your wild creative self!

On this course, we’ll be exploring the beauty of watercolours while creating stunning paintings of animals. You’ll learn how to work playfully and loosely with watercolour paints and combine them with other mediums like acrylic inks, etching tools, crayons, and markers. Together, we will create at least six beautiful animal paintings. These include the Owl Odyssey, the Handsome Hare, the Rambunctious Red Panda, the Rosy Robin, the Glorious Gorilla, and the Spirited Snow Leopard. Plus two more bonus classes, but these will be a surprise! Yay! 😜

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Six weeks of wonderful watercolour wildlife painting with me, Tam! I ADORE animals! I ADORE watercolours and I ADORE combining them with interesting other mediums and making eye-catching, unusual, semi-abstracted paintings of our furry and feathered friends. ♥️

Whether you’re confident with your brushstrokes or feel the need to have someone by your side; I’ll be there to guide you every step of the way. My goal is to help you express your emotions and connect to your intuition as you put brush to canvas. Let me help you to tap into your best creative self through the power of mother nature!

I hope you’ll come join me on this beautiful exploration of the natural world and enjoy the versatility of watercolour and mixed media!

As artists, we can sometimes get up in our heads and feel restricted & limited by wanting to make ‘perfect’ paintings! Sometimes we can get too controlling about technique, composition and colour. On this course, we’ll instead, allow ourselves to be spontaneous, loose and free while painting the remarkable creatures in our natural world. It can feel really liberating to allow spontaneity into our creative process and it brings art works and paintings to life in a magical way! I hope you’ll come and join this course so I can show you how!

I can’t wait to spend 6 glorious weeks painting with you!

Watercolour Wildlife Class Schedule

Week 1. This first week we will be getting to know our supplies; I’ll do an introduction to watercolour paints and we’ll be painting a beautiful owl in flight! Owl Odyssey: This magnificent creature exudes a sense of wisdom, grace, and strength. Like the owl, we all have the ability to access our inner wisdom and intuition and to embark on our own unique journey of self-discovery and growth.

Week 2. This week we’ll be painting a beautiful hare surrounded by some wispy natural elements. We’ll deepen our understanding of watercolours and playfully put our painting together. The Handsome Hare: A charming and charismatic creature with a spring in its step and a sparkle in its eye. Let’s hop along with the handsome hare and enjoy the beauty and wonder of life, one creative mark at a time.

Week 3. I adore Red Pandas, these creatures are beautiful, funny and so cute! This week we’ll paint a red panda surrounded by its natural habitat and we’ll continue to incorporate acrylic inks this week too. The Rambunctious Red Panda: This playful little creature is full of energy and personality. With its curious gaze, I hope that this red panda inspires you to tap into your own sense of playfulness and curiosity.

Week 4. This week we will spend some time together creating a beautiful painting of a robin. We will look at adding an interesting abstract watercolour background and we’ll learn how to make sure that the focal point does not get crowded by the background. This is one of my most favourite paintings I’ve ever painted! The Rosy Robin: A beautiful bird with delicate features. I aimed to capture its spirit of innocence and wonder, and to showcase the delicate and powerful grace of nature through brushstrokes and colour choices.

Week 5. This creature is just majestic! Painting this gorilla was a thrill for sure. I loved adding abstract shapes, expressive brush strokes, playful marks and splatters to this painting to give it that extra ‘pizazz’. The Glorious Gorilla: Guess who’s coming to class soon? A truly Glorious Gorilla, that’s who! An awe-inspiring animal that embodies strength, power, and intelligence with their piercing gaze and impressive presence. In this class, we’ll explore the beauty and complexity of these incredible creatures through the vibrant medium of watercolour and mixed media. 

Week 6. This course will culminate with a beautiful expressive painting of the stunning snow leopard! We’ll bring all the techniques we’ve learned together in this final painting and finish the course with a beautiful and colourful BANG. The Spirited Snow Leopard: This beautiful agile creature is both graceful and elusive. A true marvel of nature, a thing of grace and wonder. I wanted to honour it with tender yet expressive brushstrokes, beautiful marks and interesting line work. – Painting to be posted soon!! 

+ Surprise Classes 1 & 2: We’ll be doing two bonus classes on top of the six listed above! The first surprise bonus class the Astounding Sea Turtle and the 2nd bonus class is The Super Cute Corgi!! 😍😍😍

Aaaand, the second bonus class will be these super BADORABLE CUTE CORGI! 😍😍😍

Art Supplies You’ll Need

• 6-10 Sheets of hotpressed watercolour paper – 140lbs (I use Saunders and Waterford, but any good brand will do, other good brands are: Fabriano, Daler-Rowney, Canson). If you want to work on cold pressed that is fine too, but I my personal preference is hotpressed watercolour paper.
• Watercolour paints. I use the brand Schmincke and Daniel Smith. These brands are pricey though, you can start with a student grade brand if you don’t want to invest in an expensive set. Other good brand examples are: Jane Davenport, Arteza, Winsor Newton.
• Watercolour paint brushes. I use a mix of brands; Princeton (pricey), Fuumuui (cheaper but lesser quality) and Daler Rowney Aquafine (medium pricing).
• Acrylic Inks by Liquitex and/or Daler-Rowney I also used a few Golden High Flow, but these are optional.
• A graphite pencil for drawing and an eraser.
• An etching tool like an old knitting needle or a bamboo skewer.
• Black and White acrylic pens by Posca, Sharpie or Artistro.
• Optional: watercolour crayons Caran D’ache Neocolor II.

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