Join Sarah as she takes you through watercolour painting and colour practice .

We’ll begin in week 1 by exploring paints, papers, brushes, and basic techniques, creating colour charts, wheels, and line libraries before applying these skills to simple fruit studies. In week 2, we’ll deepen our understanding of warm/cool colours, transparency, and value, using exercises with shapes, leaves, and botanicals. Week 3 focuses on building swatch charts and painting still life, while week 4 introduces texture techniques like salt and reliefs finishing with abstract washes and a landscape.

Each session begins with hands-on colour exploration, followed by creating artworks that put your new knowledge into practice with themes of fruit, still life, botanicals and landscapes. You’ll learn key techniques such as colour mixing, saturation, layering, blending, value, and application.

While watercolour is the medium of focus, the colour theory and colour mixing skills gained can be applied to any painting practice.

Classes run for 2 hours on Wednesday mornings at Sarah’s studio in St Kilda

Studio 2

106 Art - Studios and Gallery

106 Barkly st, St Kilda

*Classes will be strictly limited to 5 people to ensure one-on-one guidance.

DATES/TIME

Wednesday 15th October 9.30am - 11.30am

Wednesday 22nd October 9.30am - 11.30am

*week break/no class

Wednesday 5th November 9.30am - 11.30am

Wednesday 12th November 9.30am - 11.30am

OVER 4 FUN FILLED SESSION, YOU WILL LEARN…

• The basics of watercolour paints, papers, and brushes

• How to mix colours, create charts, and explore the colour wheel

• Simple techniques like wet-on-wet, gradients, glazing, and textures

• Fun exercises with fruit, leaves, botanicals, and still life

• Playful mark-making and abstract washes using sponges, salt, and flicking

• How to bring it all together and creative finished pieces

WHAT YOU GET

• Expert guidance across 4 fun, structured sessions

• Hands-on practice with a variety of watercolour techniques

• Your own colour charts, swatches, and exercises to take home

• A supportive small-group environment with plenty of one-on-one help

• Materials to use in each class

• Finished artworks including fruit, botanicals, still life, and a landscape

• The opportunity to gather and collaborate with like minded people.