Woosehill Watercolour Group downloadable resources
Note: All the sheets in the ring-binder can be printed out from the original PDFs. Email the file(s) to Louise Cole at St Pauls (church.office@spauls.co.uk) by Monday evening and you will be able to pick them up on Wednesday.
Click on the following headings to download/print out the relevant leaflet(s)
First stage watercolour kit
Contains information and links to where the items can be bought
Care of brushes
A little care will save a lot of ruined brushes
Next stage watercolour kit
Contains information and links to where the items can be bought
Session 1 – wet on dry and layering colour
Each greetings card is designed to give you practice at a specific watercolour technique. This lavender design will give you practice at wet-on-dry, and layering colour – two very important basic skills.
Session 2 – getting to know your paint properties
Different watercolour paints have different properties – some are transparent – some are opaque – some are granulating. It’s helpful to know the properties of your own paints – so that you can use them to best advantage. It also helps to know this because it makes a big difference when it comes to mixing colours.
Session 3 – lifting colour plus: plant pot (4)
The object of this exercise is to better understand your paint properties – and to use a lifting paint to create highlights. This gives a 3-D effect and makes the image almost step out of the page.
Session 4 – Mixing colours plus (colour test chart)
Paint a colour wheel in order to see how many colours can be mixed from the three primary colours
Session 5 – Laying a wash wet-on-dry
How to lay a wash – then use the technique to paint a lake scene
Session 6 – Wet-into-wet
This technique allows colours to flow and blend into one another in beautiful, unexpected ways, creating a diffused effect.
Loose Ends
This is a more advanced wet-into-wet exercise – these loosely-painted sweet peas demonstrate the beauty of wet-into-wet
