Watercolour Painting with Veronica Ricks

Tutor: Veronica Ricks | Tuesdays 10am-4pm | 12 weeks

Learn to make your watercolour paintings more expressive, creative, and personal. This course supports you in extending your technical skills while encouraging a freer, more individual approach to the medium. You’ll explore experimental techniques using watercolour alongside pastels, inks, and other media, working from subjects such as still life, landscape, and the life model.

Suitable for all abilities. Students are required to bring their own materials and should refer to the materials list below before their course starts. (#TU03)

Course Information

Watercolour Painting with Veronica Ricks

Please bring all these materials with you on your first day:

Brushes (nylon or sable):

  • 1 Medium round ended brush size 10 or 12
  • 1 Small round ended brush size 3 or 4
  • 1 Large mop brush PAINTS

You can use a box of paints but tubes are preferable.

  • Lemon Yellow
  • Cadmium Yellow
  • Yellow ochre or Raw Siena
  • Crimson Alizarin
  • Permanent Rose
  • Burnt Siena
  • Cerulean Blue
  • Cobalt Blue
  • Indigo
  • Viridian

Paper

  • 1 small sketch pad (watercolour paper)
  • Sheets of watercolour paper (you can buy these from Heatherley’s each week) or large pad of paper (weight 140lb/300gms; medium surface)

Also:

  • 1 watercolour palette
  • 1 bottle of masking fluid
  • 2 water jars
  • 1 roll kitchen paper
  • 1 roll masking tape
  • HB pencil
  • Rubber

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