Combining Stories – A Landscape and Icons that you love!

For this Workshop we are taking the imagery Artist Wyn Vogel – demonstrated at the Royal Brisbane Ag Show – The EKKA 2022 and using these as our working images!

Wyn will share with you and help you will explore how to lay a landscape out onto your paper and bring it to life with vibrant colour – the landscape we will draw inspiration from is taken from the mouth of Stumers Creek – on the Sunshine Coast and the ‘Icons’ will be The Australian Flora that we have been working with in our Studio lessons over the last few weeks – Gum Blossoms and/or Grevillea you are welcome to join me for this Workshop.

Don’t forget BillyKart Restaurant is open on the Deck beside us and make the best Brekky’s – you can buy a coffee or full breakfast and enjoy it while you paint – Ben and his team are amazing and will deliver to us in the Studio!

Materials to Bring:

• 1 full sheet of watercolour paper – cold press 300gsm OR
• A pad of paper of similar weight – at least A3 in size
• Paint Colours – please bring what you have but these are some of the colours we will play with – I tend to use 4 primary colours so you can choose from these:
  • Ultramarine Blue – Green Shade
  • Indigo
  • Cadmium Yellow – Deep (very important colour to have)
  • Phthalo Blue
  • Raw Sienna
  • Quinacridone Gold or Australian Red Gold
  • Alizarin Crimson and/or Deep Cadmium Red – or similar colours
• Black Waterproof Pigment Ink – bottle
• A nib pen to work your ink onto the paper

Brushes – at least those below –

but please bring whatever you have in your kit:

• 1 x wide wash brush – for wet work, and
• 1 x wide wash brush – Goat Hair recommended – for dry work
• 1 x Squirrel Needle point or Chinese style calligraphy brush for detailed line work and layering of your colours

Other Tools:

• 1 x old kitchen spray bottle – washed out and ready to have clean water to spray across your paints – I recommend an old ‘Windex’ Bottle of similar to give you a good spray of water.
• a 2B pencil and if you would like a rubber
• Hair dryer to dry your work between layers
• Backing board (core board or similar from Bunnings) and tape to manage your paper – we don’t use an easel we tape the paper to the backing board so we can move the paper and tilt or turn as needed to manage your paint and water.

Paper towel to wipe up your spills