Painting Shadows & other Watercolour Magic with Susie Murphie
Saturday 2 November 2024
Overview
Date: Saturday 2 November 2024
Time: 10.00am – 4.00pm
Sharpen your skills in watercolour!
It doesn’t matter what the subject is… Susie will concentrate on finished paint quality and teach you how to put the paint on paper and make it look great.
Don’t worry about drawing skills or lack thereof, Susie will help you learn how to draw. But overall the look of the watercolour is the most important thing.
This watercolour workshop is a day of fast painting and drawing covering a variety of subjects. Susie will be giving you many tips to give new confidence and vibrancy to your work.
Let me know beforehand if there is something in particular you want to do and Susie will do her best to include it.
This workshop is also suitable for fearless beginners.
Susie Murphie is a watercolour artist with more than 30 years experience. She shares her passion through teaching; skilfully capturing a moment in time with landscape, still life and animal subjects
$200
Venue
Royal Art Society of NSW
25 - 27 Walker St, North Sydney
Free all day parking at the venue and on street.
What to Bring
PAINT:
SIX colours and only ARTISTS QUALITY. (‘Students’ quality paint contains much less actual pigment).
Susie uses Windsor&Newton paint because of the way these colours mix.
Other brands have slightly different ‘recipes’ for their colours which, surprisingly don't give quite the same results.
Beware of Daniel Smith Siennas (Raw and Burnt) as they are significantly different colours. This brand granulated much more than others - comes down to your personal preference.
Also, Schminke Cerulean is an intense different colour to the W&N. Best avoided.
And please, don’t believe the advice from shop staff who will tell you that a similar colour is just as good! These six colours are a tightly balanced limited palette of colours that you can mix endless variations with.
• French Ultramarine
• Quinacridone MAGENTA
• Quinacridone GOLD
• Raw Sienna
• Burnt Sienna
• Cerulean Blue
Susie uses Windsor &Newton ‘professional’ tubes that she squeezes out and let's dry in a large palette.
BRUSHES: need to be large round watercolour brushes with a fine point somewhere between size 12 and 18...not mop style brushes. Bunnings has perfect brushes in their CRAFT section. (Needs to be a big Bunnings to have one). Their prices max out at around $5. Buy half a dozen!
The next best value is at Officeworks… round brushes with a good point for around $12.
PAPER: needs to be bought from an art shop. The cheap stuff can be really dodgy and does not behave the way it should to give good results.
Buy A4 and A3 medium or smooth paper or bring what you like to use.
If you’re more of a beginner choose the medium texture, often called cold pressed. It is much more forgiving.
You’ll need a rag too. Not just paper towels.
Bring a decent sized water container. Not a jam jar. Something with a wider base that won’t topple over and that will support a couple of brushes sitting in it. Essential for fast painting.
Masking tape might be useful at times.
And a pencil that's not too soft...or hard. You don't want your pencil lines to smudge or to leave a 'dent' in the paper. 2B is good.
And an eraser to use at the end if necessary
