Discovering Local – Overlooking Robe Beach Sth Australia – Landscape ….Exploring sea and land with Artist Wyn Vogel – 24th August 2025

We are exploring a local scene –
taken from a lookout over the popular beach
Robe – South Australia

The image selected by my Students took in the total view from the Lookout overseeing the scene across the water to the village of Robe – we are using this image to understand the colours of the south, which being a Queenslander I am still discovering this transition and to explore techniques to create soft loose water/seascape  profiles!

• We will start the day with some ‘Water Exercises’ – using our brushes to twist and shape the waves.
• After this we will do a ½ sheet 56 x 38cm Workshop image of the scene adopting the techniques practiced in the morning!

Materials to bring:

All of these items listed below are available to buy in Studio if you don’t have them!

• At least 1 sheet Arches 300gsm Cold Pressed Watercolour Paper
• And some smaller sheets of watercolour paper to try out ideas and techniques for making your ‘WATER’ sing – again experimental so these can be scraps from other Work if you have them!

PAINTS | Watercolour Paint in tubes preferably:

but please bring whatever colours you have in your kit:

• Cerulean Blue
• Indigo
• Cadmium Yellow – Deep
• Perylene Green
• Green Gold
• Quinacridone Gold
• Alizarin Crimson and/or Organic Vermilion – or similar colours

Brushes – at least those below –

but please bring whatever brushes you have in your kit:

At Least 1 of each brush below – more will help you:

• 1 each x 1/2 inch and 3/4inch Angle Shader
• 1 x wide wash brush at least 2 inches in width – for wet work, we recommend the 2 inch Art Spectrum Soft Varnish Brush – I would recommend you have at least 2 with you, and
• 1 x wide dry brush at least 2 inches in width – feel it with you hand and maker sure it is very soft 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 – we recommend No10 – NEEF Squirrel Needle Point – see the images below and on the cover photo for guidance!

Other Tools:

• A palette to put you paint on – we mix on the paper – but you need something to squeeze your paint onto from the tube.
• 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 to tape your sample papers down (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.

Remember to BYO your own lunch – bring your mug – Tea and Coffee are available all day!

REFUND POLICY

** refunds will be in full if we are notified 72 hours ahead of the Dates,

** we will withhold the card fee, but refund bookings notified within 24 hours of the Workshops – however,

** if there is a no-show on the day without notification, we will not refund the ticket at that time.