Sketching with Watercolour : Jane Blundell

Date:    Thursday May 31 & Friday June 1

Time:    10am - 4pm

Venue:  The Sheds : 30 Carrington Road Marrickville 2204

Price:    $340

In this workshop Jane will demonstrate tools and techniques to help you to gain confidence in sketching from life, whether for travel, urban sketching, botanical studies or just for fun. We’ll explore different sorts of pencils, pens and inks, create the perfect sketching watercolour palette, look at layouts and lettering and discover many ways to make wonderful sketchbook pages to create indelible memories of your travels and experiences. Some plein air painting will be included if possible. The workshop will include personalised palette consultations and is suitable for beginners or those with more experience. 

Jane Blundell has been painting in watercolour for over 35 years and is a professional artist and teacher and a member of the Australian Watercolour Institute. She is a passionate sketcher and while she works in all mediums, her favourite is watercolour. She paints anything – urban landscapes, flowers, rocks, people, still life, whatever – usually from life. Her understanding of colour and pigments is based on years of personal research and exploration, and can be seen on her website and Blog and in her two self-published books: Watercolour Mixing Charts and The Ultimate Mixing Palette: a World of Colour, both available through au.Blurb.com.