Painting and Drawing Flowers @ macbirmingham

Term has just wrapped up on my Painting and Drawing Flowers course at mac birmingham.

Over 12 weeks I’ve guided the students through some foundational exercises on tone, understanding and mixing colours, using watercolours, acrylics, pastels, inks and much more.

We have played with salt and masking fluid to create floral effects.

And also mixed all the toys in our art-boxes together to create with mixed-media.

We usually have an artist to reference each week – a great master/mistress or contemporary artist- whoever has work that is most useful for us to study at the time.

It has been really rewarding watching the students build their skills and knowledge and find their unique ways towards their own painting style and choice.

Some were very botanically inspired and wanted watercolour lightness, while others found using paint more thickly a rewarding experience.

I support whatever the individual artists inclination is and help them progress from where they are.

What was common amongst them was an enjoyment of painting and drawing and having the dedicated time to sit down together to do it.

If it sounds like something you’d like too, then places are booking now for the new term start on January 10th 2022 – love to have you with us.

PS – in case it allays any fears.. we sit socially distanced, air the room and wear masks.