First watercolour session

All the supplies stood us in good stead yesterday for our first watercolour session. Paint sets, brushes and paper pads were from Officeworks and the magazines for the collage component were (free) via Facebook Marketplace from various sellers.

Devina (at right in photo above) joined (from left) Jitka, Jean and Bronwen to take pictures before heading off to a Halloween night event. The photo below shows some of the items made on the day, in my left hand is Jitka’s work which holds a Parisian theme.

Just a quick note that the next session is going to be on 26 November and we’ll be doing drawings of colocasias (the plants in my light well) with watercolour to add variety. We also discussed possible activities for future sessions, so get in touch if you’re interested in making art in a supportive environment.

Above I’m holding Jean’s (seated at right) first assemblage (we each made two pictures) which reminded me of 70s political posters, it was quite surreal.

In the above photo you can see Bronwen’s first work (she’s seated at right) which features creatures in the natural environment. The reddish work on the table is Simon’s, he’s used a completely different colour palette from the rest of us.

We had mixing trays from the materials cache but the watercolour sets have such a wide range of colours in them that nobody really did much mixing of colours, pigment just came straight off the blocks to the paper. 

We started out with a water wash so we could paint wet-on-wet to get the sky in a nice gradient. 

The first design was sky with water (see above) and the second design (not pictured because Devina had left by that time) was sky with a mountain range.