10:00 - 16:00

Level: Beginner

In this workshop Janina will lead you through all the steps involved in painting a building in pen line and watercolour wash focussing on an image of Le Consulate café in Montmartre, Paris. Janina will guide you through the process for creating your own painting including using masking fluid, watercolour washes, and adding details and adding texture. The workshop will include a brief discussion about watercolour paint selection and colour mixing.

What to bring:

• Watercolour paint tubes or pans - blue (phthalo or cobalt or ultramarine), yellow ochre, Payne’s grey, burnt sienna, sap green. Buff Titanium is also very useful for buildings. 

• Watercolour paper A4 – for example Cass Art A4 hot pressed (HP) smooth 300gsm. You will need a  sheet for the painting and another sheet for testing colours and masking fluid. 

• Watercolour brushes – bring a selection of your favourites eg small round number 2 for detail, medium round number 6 for washes. 

• Fine waterproof black pen eg Staedtler Pigment liner 0.3

• Pencil, sharpener, eraser

• Mixing palette

• Jam jars for water

• Kitchen roll

Please bring the following if you have them, otherwise Janina will have spares. 

• Tracedown paper or graphite paper or similar

• Masking fluid

• Dip pen 

Included on the day:

• Images to work from

• Any other materials not specified for the students to bring

• Expert tuition

• 1 to 1 guidance

• Detailed demonstrations

• A selection of tea, freshly brewed coffee, biscuits and delicious cakes. If you have any specific dietary requirements or allergies, please feel free to bring along your own provisions/milk alternatives etc

And of course you take your wonderful creations from the day. If you share any photographs of your day here and/or your finished work, we’d love to see them so please tag us @micklemsfarmcreativeworkshops or use the hashtag #micklemsfarmcreativeworkshops.

Terms - Fee is payable on booking. If, having booked, you can no longer attend, we are unable to offer a refund or transfer you to another workshop. However, you may nominate someone else to attend the workshop or class in your place by notifying us using the contact page on the Micklems Farm website. We reserve the right to cancel a workshop up to 48 hours prior to the workshop date. We will only cancel due to insufficient places sold and you will be refunded the full amount paid.

Number of students: 10