Paint Your Own House - Saturday 5th July - 10am - 4pm

On this workshop you will create a house portrait of your own house (and you could make all those changes you have been dreaming about e.g. change the colour of the front door, tidy up the garden, clean the roof etc!)

We will start by reviewing all the images so that we know which techniques to cover during the workshop before we get to work eg brick work, reflections, trees and so on.

Next we will trace the outline image onto watercolour paper. After that we will prepare the line drawing in black line and will add watercolour, refining this as we go through the day

Janina will lead you through all the steps involved and there will be lots of encouragement and time to ask questions.

What do I need to bring?

• Please print out your main image of your house in the size you want to paint (as we will be tracing). Suggest A4. Bring extra photos of any details especially any features in shade, These can be actual prints or you can work form your digital device.

• Watercolour paint - blue (phthalo or cobalt or ultramarine), yellow ochre, Payne’s grey, burnt sienna, buff titanium. If you have any flowers in bloom bring appropriate colours for those. Pans or tubes are fine.

• Smooth watercolour paper – for example Cass Art A4 hot pressed (HP) smooth 300gsm or similar. You will need a  sheet for the painting and another for testing colours and masking fluid. Smooth watercolour paper is often called “hot pressed”.

• Watercolour brushes – small round number 2, medium round number 6. A small flat number 2 is useful for brickwork

• Fine waterproof black pen eg Staedtler Pigment liner 0.3

• Pencil, sharpener, eraser

• Mixing palette

• An apron to protect your clothes

If you have the following please bring them otherwise Janina will have some spares you can borrow.

• Masking fluid
• Dip pen
• Tracing paper
• Carbon or tracedown paper

Terms & Conditions - The fee for the workshop is payable when booking. If you need to cancel your booking, we are unable to offer a refund. You may however be able to nominate someone else to attend the workshop in your place. We reserve the right to cancel a workshop up to 48 hours prior to the workshop date. We will only cancel due to sickness or insufficient places sold.  If we have to cancel you will be refunded the full amount paid or given the option to transfer your booking to another workshop.