Start The Year Experimenting – with new substrates for your Watercolour – Eckersley’s Gold Coast Labrador – Wednesday 8th March 2023 – 10am to 2pm

Start The Year Experimenting – with new substrates for your Watercolour – Eckersley’s Gold Coast Labrador – Wednesday 8th March 2023 – 10am to 2pm
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Creative moments come from all sorts of directions – let’s start the year experimenting! Different Substrates – Different Directions – Museum Series Aquabord is a textured, highly absorbent surface designed for watercolor and gouache. Aquabord is crafted from our premium warp-resistant 1/8″ FSC-certified Hardbord™ that is protected with our proprietary Archiva-Seal™ and coated with an acid-free clay and mineral ground with a texture similar to cold-pressed watercolor paper. Colors retain their purity and vibrancy in a way that even the finest of watercolour papers can’t match and Aquabord allows artists to frame and display their watercolour without glass. With The Man From Snowy River – Craigs Hut as our subject, discovering the beauty of the mountains telling the story of the cattle drovers! Scroll down under the ticket box to see the Materials List.

Eckersley’s Gold Coast – Wednesday 17th August 2022 – 10am to 2.30pm – Exploring Australian Flora II – Grevillea and Banksia

Eckersley’s Gold Coast – Wednesday 17th August 2022 – 10am to 2.30pm – Exploring Australian Flora II – Grevillea and Banksia
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For this Wednesday Workshop – we will continue to explore the beauty of Australian Flora – taking on board the many colours of Grevillea and the amazing twist and turns of the Banksia as it grows and ages! Your welcome to bring your own images or find some native branches along the way to inspire us – see below for the ‘Materials to Bring’ – BYO your own lunch and a mug – tea and coffee provided!

Eckersley’s Gold Coast – 7th September 2022 – 10am to 2.30pm – Pony Tails and Skirts – On The Beach

Eckersley’s Gold Coast – 7th September 2022 – 10am to 2.30pm – Pony Tails and Skirts – On The Beach
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Explore the techniques to capture the texture of the sand – the wash of the waves – bodies on the beach!

This Workshop will start at the beginning with these concepts so you are welcome to come and Workshop with us, even if you haven’t practices a lot of landscape painting! Check the ‘Materials to Bring Below’ – pack BYO Lunch and bring a mug – tea and coffee provided! – come a bit early to set up for a 10am start!

Eckersleys Gold Coast – Wednesday 3rd August 2022 – 10am to 2.30pm – Exploring Australian Flora I – Gum Blossoms

Eckersleys Gold Coast – Wednesday 3rd August 2022 – 10am to 2.30pm – Exploring Australian Flora I – Gum Blossoms
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Come and Paint with me on the Gold Coast – to explore the stunning beauty of Australian Flora – for this 1st Workshop we can thank Jacquie Williams for her wonderful photography and I went back into my archives and reminisced with the Work I had photographed sitting on the table in my old Studio at Yaroomba – so many good memories there – happy to bring them back to life and share with you all! Check below for the materials to bring and don’t forget BYO own lunch and a mug – tea and coffee provided!

Wet on Wet – Botanical and Birds – Eckersley’s Gold Coast 20th July 2022 – 10am to 2.30pm

Wet on Wet – Botanical and Birds – Eckersley’s Gold Coast 20th July 2022 – 10am to 2.30pm
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Working Wet-on-Wet is a technique that gives wonderful distance and depth to your paintings. It enables you to have lovely ‘lost’ edges contrasting with the focus of the foreground images – this will be a chance to explore this technique. We are including birds with our botanical – but if you are not a bird person you are welcome to just explore this technique with – the ‘botanical’ – this is an option you can choose on the day!

Modern Botanical – Pruning the Hydrangeas – Eckersley’s Gold Coast Labrador – Artist Wyn Vogel – 10am – 29th June 2022

Modern Botanical – Pruning the Hydrangeas – Eckersley’s Gold Coast Labrador – Artist Wyn Vogel – 10am – 29th June 2022
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In this Workshop w’ll explore the construct of the flower and then discover how to build your layers to create depth and bring a visually pleasing feel to you painting. We will explore the shapes and colours of Hydrangeas, you may have pruned from your Garden in a bucket! Please read the Materials to bring – we are recommending an ‘Angle Shaper’ Brush – see the Materials List for more information. Don’t forget a mug for coffee/tea and BYO Lunch.

A Fun 2nd Stage – Abstracting Figures in the Landscape – Eckersley’s Gold Coast

A Fun 2nd Stage – Abstracting Figures in the Landscape – Eckersley’s Gold Coast
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A few flicks of your brush and you can take the eye to another place – a figure folding a tartan rug or a couple walking in Autumn – or some blokes chatting at the news stand – learn how to tell your story in this fun Workshop at Eckersley’s Labrador on the Gold Coast – Wednesday 27th April 2022 – with Artist Wyn Vogel. BYO own lunch and see Materials List on the booking site to see what to bring.