About Rob and Siân Watercolour artists

Siân Dudley

Rob Dudley

Moor to Sea Arts Tuition

Watercolour Workshops

THEMED WORKSHOPS

This year we are offering a number of themed workshops, based on popular subjects. The focus for these workshops will be the most useful techniques for the subject being studied.
Typically a themed workshop will be fairly structured, beginning with an overview of the subject being studied, before moving on to exercises designed to learn and practise techniques. Your tutor will then demonstrate an easy to follow step-by-step painting incorporating these techniques, which you will follow to produce a finished painting.
Our intention is that at the end of the workshop you will have not only completed a beautiful painting, but also have an armoury of new techniques at your disposal for future masterpieces.

OPEN PAINTING DAYS

Open painting days are 'theme free', ideal for those who enjoy an uninterrupted spell of time to paint under the guidance of a professional tutor. Designed to help you to get the most from your painting, there will be plenty of time to ask questions and to get answers, which will often include a personalised 'mini-demonstration'. Bring along a piece you are working on, reference for a painting you would like to try, some of your previous work for critique, or simply a selection of practical questions, and we will share tips, tricks and techniques with you.

Whichever workshops you choose to attend, we definitely encourage you to bring some of your work along for us to see. Please don't be shy – it would help us to help you! We recognise that not everyone is ready to exhibit, and you need not show your work to anyone else if you don't want to!

TIMES: 10.00 AM TO 4.30 PM

NUMBER OF PLACES: 8 per workshop
VENUE: Please check individual sessions.
MATERIALS: Students bring their own materials unless otherwise stated.
COST: £ 40 per workshop, unless otherwise stated. (Tea, coffee and cold drinks are provided throughout the day. Students bring their own lunch).

Booking is essential for all Moor to Sea Arts workshops

Workshops Booking Form

WATERCOLOUR WORKSHOPS PROGRAMME 2012

We are currently planning the workshop programme for 2012, dates will be announced shortly! To give you a flavour of the types of workshops that we will run, here are some examples from last year.

'Open Painting Day'

Venue: Lukesland Gardens, Harford, Ivybridge, PL21 0JF
SUITABLE FOR ALL ABILITIES
Bring along a piece you are working on, reference for a painting you would like to try, or simply a selection of practical questions, and we will share tips, tricks and techniques with you.

'Devon Hedgerows'

Venue: Lukesland Gardens, Harford, Ivybridge, PL21 0JF
PLEASE NOTE that this workshop is not suitable for complete beginners.
Devon's hedgerows at wonderful at ths time of year. Primroses, violets, bluebells, campion are all abundant; the lanes are filled with an air of expectancy. Siân will teach techniques of a loose free style of painting that keeps an eye on careful observation, allowing you to describe the beauty of flowers while expressing the excitement and exuberance of this time of year!

'Sparkling Seascapes'

Venue: Harbour House,The Promenade, Kingsbridge, Devon, TQ7 1JD
SUITABLE FOR ALL ABILITIES
Acknowledged as a master of masking fluid, Rob will show you how to produce sparkling seascapes that will bring your pictures to life.

'Dartmoor Landscapes'

Venue: Lukesland Gardens, Harford, Ivybridge, PL21 0JF
PLEASE NOTE that this workshop is not suitable for complete beginners.
Devon is famous for its picturesque lanes and hedges. Considering perspective, composition and painterly techniques used to decribe realistic hedgerows and puddles, you will paint learn to paint a sunlit Devon lane after a passing shower.

'Devon Lane'

Venue: Harbour House,The Promenade, Kingsbridge, Devon, TQ7 1JD
SUITABLE FOR ALL ABILITIES
Paint a little corner of Dartmoor, and learn how to use tone and shadows to describe the shape of the land. Take home a light-filled landscape!

'Life Drawing'

Venue: Lukesland Gardens, Harford, Ivybridge, PL21 0JF
SUITABLE FOR ALL ABILITIES
From the Renaissance to the present day artists have understood that working from a life model sharpens your drawing skills like no other subject! This workshop give you the opportunity to experience this for yourself . Working with a professional life model in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, the day will include tutor led exercises, and a range of short, medium and long poses.

'Skies'

Venue: Harbour House, The Promenade, Kingsbridge, Devon, TQ7 1JD
SUITABLE FOR ALL ABILITIES
John Constable believed that skies could determine the mood of your paintings like no other part of the composition. Add impact to your landscapes and seascapes by learning essential techniques to create realistic and atmospheric skies.

'Exploring Botanical Subjects'

Venue: Lukesland Gardens, Harford, Ivybridge, PL21 0JF
PLEASE NOTE that this workshop is not suitable for complete beginners.
A succesful floral painting requires a balance between good observational skills and gestural mark-making. Balancing techniques learned from botanical illustrators with loose, free expressive mark-making, Sian will lead you through a painting of seasonal leaves, flowers or berries

'Festive Fun'

Venue: Lukesland Gardens, Harford, Ivybridge, PL21 0JF
PLEASE NOTE that this workshop is not suitable for complete beginners.
Cost: £45
With the added bonus of mulled wine, home-made soup and a roaring log fire, this festive workshop will explore a range of watercolour media and carefully selected craft based media to produce a range of highly individual Christmas items.