Watercolour Flowers Workshop (13 July 2024)
Watercolour Flowers Workshop with Ingrid Bartkowiak: 10–1pm Saturday 13 July 2024.
Join artist Ingrid Bartkowiak for this 3-hour introductory workshop to learn how to bring Australian native plants to life using watercolour.
To start, Ingrid will guide you through the basics of using watercolour paints, paper and brushes. You will learn how to activate your colours using water and how to mix colours, and how to layer colours to change tones and intensity. Ingrid will demonstrate how to bring these elements together to achieve different results, with a focus on the particular techniques that you'll be using in this workshop. Next, it's your turn to practice your skills by creating gradients, brush strokes and colour mixing.
We'll start by painting a bottle brush flower. You will have the choice of working on flat A5 watercolour paper, or on folded watercolour paper to use as a card. First, we will break down the flower by looking at the shapes and colours we see, what brush strokes we can use to create our illustration, and then we put it all together to create our flower.
Ingrid will then demonstrate how you could approach other flora such as wattle, gum blossoms, ferns or any special requests you may have. Ingrid will also demonstrate how to approach background colours, which can be completed when you take your artworks home. Depending on your pace, you may want to keep focusing on your bottle brush, start a second artwork to try out another type of flower, or add in some extra variety to the background of your bottle brush painting.
Ingrid Bartkowiak is a Brisbane-based artist and illustrator who paints Australian native flora, fauna and fungi using watercolour. Ingrid's work celebrates all things small and intricate, from tufts of moss on a footpath to the fungi sprouting from a wombat dropping. Her distinctive style is inspired by botanical illustration and the Arts & Crafts movement through its use of tiny patterns, exquisite detail, and vivid blocks of colour.
This workshop is suitable for beginners with little or no experience, and all materials required for the workshop are supplied. Please note that we don't send workshop reminders, so please be sure to add this event to your calendar as soon as you've registered.
Cost: $100 / $90 (Multi-pass)
Multi-pass discount: Sign up for 2 or more Plant Empire events, or register 2 or more people for the same event, to receive 10% off the ticket price (discount will appear at checkout).